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== Deaths ==
[[File:In the manner of François Clouet - Louise de Lorraine - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Louise of Lorraine]]]]
[[File:Kölnisches Stadtmuseum im Haus Sauer-0165 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg]]]]
[[File:Henriette de Nevers.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Henriette of Cleves]]]]
[[File:Tycho Brahe.JPG|thumb|right|110px|[[Tycho Brahe]]]]

=== January–March ===
* [[January 11]] – [[Scipione Ammirato]], Italian historian (b. [[1531]])
* [[January 17]] – [[Christoffer Valkendorff]], Danish politician (b. [[1525]])
* [[January 19]] – [[Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke]], English statesman (b. [[1538]])
* [[January 29]] – [[Louise of Lorraine]], French queen consort (b. [[1553]])
* [[February 7]] – [[Martin Garzez]], Aragonese-born 53rd Grandmaster of the [[Knights Hospitaller]] (b. [[1526]])
* [[February 25]] – [[Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex]], English politician (b. [[1566]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Arthur F. Kinney|title=Titled Elizabethans: A Directory of Elizabethan State and Church Officers and Knights, with Peers of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1558-1603|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wAUdAAAAYAAJ|year=1973|publisher=Archon Books|isbn=978-0-208-01334-7|page=37|language=en}}</ref>
* [[February 27]] – [[Anne Line]], English Catholic martyr (b. c. [[1563]])
* [[March 2]] – [[Antonio del Rincón]], Mexican academic (b. [[1566]])
* [[March 13]] – [[Henry Cuffe]], English politician (b. [[1563]])

=== April–June ===
* [[April 5]] – [[Wolfgang von Dalberg]], Roman Catholic Archbishop of Mainz, Germany (b. [[1538]])
* [[April 10]] – [[Mark Alexander Boyd]], Scottish poet and soldier of fortune (b. [[1562]])
* [[May 10]] – [[Hans van Steenwinckel the Elder]], Flemish/Danish architect, sculptor (b. [[1550]])
* [[May 12]] – [[Anna III, Abbess of Quedlinburg]], Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg (b. [[1565]])
* [[May 19]] – [[Costanzo Porta]], Italian composer (b. [[1528]])
* [[May 21]] – [[Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg]], Archbishop-Elector of Cologne (b. [[1547]])
* [[June 11]] – [[Françoise d'Orléans-Longueville]], French princess (b. [[1549]])
* [[June 16]] – [[Lewis Mordaunt, 3rd Baron Mordaunt]], Member of Parliament and High Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire (b. [[1538]])
* [[June 17]] – [[Gabriel Goodman]], English priest (b. [[1528]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Biographical Register of Christ's College, 1505-1905, and of the Earlier Foundation, God's House, 1448-1505|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=woo8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA41|year=1910|publisher=CUP Archive|pages=41|language=en}}</ref>
* [[June 24]] – [[Henriette of Cleves]], Duchess of Nevers, Countess of Rethel (b. [[1542]])
* [[June 25]] – [[Peregrine Bertie, 13th Baron Willoughby de Eresby]], English baron (b. [[1555]])
* [[June 27]] – [[Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys]] (b. [[1525]])

=== July–September ===
* [[August 9]] – Prince [[Michael the Brave]] of Wallachia (b. [[1558]])
* [[August 11]] – [[Johannes Heurnius]], Dutch physician (b. [[1543]])
* [[August 19]] – [[William Lambarde]], English antiquarian and politician (b. [[1536]])
* [[September 7]] – [[John Shakespeare]], English glover, father of [[William Shakespeare]] (b. [[1529]])
* [[September 12]] – [[Meletius I Pegas]], Greek Patriarch of Alexandria (b. [[1549]])
* [[September 20]] – [[Fernando Ruiz de Castro Andrade y Portugal]], Grandee of Spain (b. [[1548]])

=== October–December ===
* [[October 12]] – [[Nicholas Brend]], English landowner (b. [[1560]])
* [[October 21]] – [[Hoshina Masanao]], Japanese daimyō of the Takeda clan (b. [[1542]])
* [[October 24]]
** [[Tycho Brahe]], Danish astronomer (b. [[1546]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John Robert Christianson|title=On Tycho's Island: Tycho Brahe, Science, and Culture in the Sixteenth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SNh7SyciWPMC&pg=PA277|year=2003|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-00884-6|pages=277|language=en}}</ref>
** [[Louis Philip, Count Palatine of Guttenberg]], Palatinate-Veldenz (b. [[1577]])
* [[November 16]] – [[Charles Neville, 6th Earl of Westmorland]], exiled English nobleman (b. [[1542]])
* [[December 3]] – [[Peter Thyraeus]], German theologian (b. [[1546]])
* [[December 17]] – [[Bernardino de Cárdenas y Portugal, Duque de Maqueda]], Spanish noble (b. [[1553]])

===Date unknown===
* [[Girolamo Dalla Casa]], Italian composer
* [[Ogawa Suketada]], Japanese daimyō (b. [[1549]])
* [[Onodera Shigemichi]], Japanese samurai