Editing 1576 (section)

== Deaths ==
[[File:Portrait of Shah Tahmasp I. Inscribed "Tammas Pers". Painted by Cristofano dell'Altissimo, dated 1552-1568.jpg|thumbnail|110px|right|[[Tahmasp I]]]]
[[File:Nicolas Neufchâtel 002.jpg|thumbnail|110px|right|[[Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor]]]]
* [[January 19]] &ndash; [[Hans Sachs]], German ''Meistersinger'' (b. [[1494]])
* [[January 27]] &ndash; [[Mizuno Nobumoto]], Japanese shōgun
* [[February 10]] &ndash; [[Wilhelm Xylander|Wilhelm/Guilielmus Xylander]], German classical scholar (b. [[1532]])
* [[February 12]] &ndash; [[John Albert I, Duke of Mecklenburg]] (b. [[1525]])
* [[March 5]] &ndash; [[Luis de Requesens y Zúñiga]], Spanish governor of the Netherlands (b. [[1528]])
* [[March 18]] &ndash; [[Johann Stössel]], German theologian (b. [[1524]])
* [[May 14]] &ndash; [[Tahmasp I]], Shah of Persia (b. [[1514]])
* [[May 30]] &ndash; [[Harada Naomasa]], Japanese samurai
* [[June 30]] &ndash; [[Franciscus Sonnius]], Dutch counter-Reformation theologian (b. [[1506]])
* [[July 2]] &ndash; [[Josias Simler]], Swiss scholar (b. [[1530]])
* [[July 11]] &ndash; [[Eleonora di Garzia di Toledo]], Italian noble (d. [[1553]])
* [[July 16]] &ndash; [[Isabella de' Medici]], Italian noble (d. [[1542]])
* [[August 15]] or [[August 22]] &ndash; [[Bálint Bakfark]], Hungarian composer and lutenist (b. [[1507]])
* [[August 27]] &ndash; [[Titian]], Italian painter (b. c. [[1489]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Harold Edwin Wethey|author2=Tiziano Vecellio|author3=Titian|title=The Paintings of Titian: The religious paintings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QN1OAAAAYAAJ|year=1969|publisher=Phaidon|isbn=978-0-7148-1393-6|page=40|language=en}}</ref>
* [[September 21]] &ndash; [[Gerolamo Cardano]], Italian mathematician, physician, astrologer and gambler (b. [[1502]])
* [[September 22]] &ndash; [[Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex]] (b. [[1541]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Paul E. J. Hammer|title=The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics: The Political Career of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, 1585-1597|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VbKM-1eXuBkC&pg=PA17|date=24 June 1999|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-43485-0|pages=17|language=en}}</ref>
* [[October 12]] &ndash; [[Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor]] (b. [[1527]])
* [[October 14]] &ndash; [[Konrad Heresbach]], German Calvinist (b. [[1496]])
* [[October 26]] &ndash; [[Frederick III, Elector Palatine]], ruler from the house of Wittelsbach (b. [[1515]])
* [[November 4]] &ndash; [[John Paulet, 2nd Marquess of Winchester]] (b. c. [[1510]])
* [[November 9]] &ndash; [[Chamaraja Wodeyar IV]], King of Mysore (b. [[1507]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Paula Vicente]], Portuguese artist, musician and writer (b. [[1519]])
* ''probable''
** [[Antonis Mor|Anthony More]], Dutch portrait painter (b. [[1512]])
** [[Nicola Vicentino]], Italian music theorist and composer (b. [[1511]])