Editing 1579 (section)

== Deaths ==
[[File:Sokullupasa.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Sokollu Mehmed Pasha]]]]
* [[February 5]] &ndash; [[Countess Palatine Helena of Simmern]], Countess consort of Hanau-Münzenberg (1551-1561) (b. [[1532]])
* [[February 16]] &ndash; [[Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada]], Spanish explorer (b. [[1509]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Saldahna |first1=E. de |title=El licenciado Jimenez de Quesada: algunas viejas novedades y ciertas nuevas vejeces sobre las empresas literarias y militares de don Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada, mariscal y adelantado que fue del n.r. de Granada. Con acopio de documentos ineditos |date=1916 |publisher=Mogollon |page=89 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5yBEAQAAMAAJ&dq=Gonzalo+Jim%C3%A9nez+de+Quesada+%2216+de+febrero+de+1579%22&pg=PA89 |access-date=4 March 2024 |language=es}}</ref>
* [[February 20]] &ndash; [[Nicholas Bacon (courtier)|Nicholas Bacon]], English politician (b. [[1509]])<ref>{{cite book |title=London Topographical Record |date=1917 |publisher=London Topographical Society |page=60 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DOdZAAAAIAAJ&dq=Nicholas+Bacon+%2220+february+1579%22&pg=PA60 |access-date=4 March 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 12]] &ndash; [[Alessandro Piccolomini]], Italian humanist and philosopher from Siena (b. [[1508]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Basil Brown|title=Astronomical Atlases, Maps & Charts: An Historical & General Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xO8XAQAAMAAJ|year=1968|publisher=Dawsons of Pall Mall|isbn=978-0-7129-0131-4|page=17|language=en}}</ref>
* [[April 24]] &ndash; [[John Stuart, 4th Earl of Atholl]]<ref>{{cite ODNB |title=Stewart, John, fourth earl of Atholl|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-26491|year=2004 |access-date=4 March 2024 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/26491}}</ref>
* [[May 6]] &ndash; [[François de Montmorency]], French nobleman (b. [[1530]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sainte-Marie |first1=Anselme de |title=Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France, des pairs, grands officiers de la couronne & de la maison du Roy, & des anciens barons du royaume ... |date=1728 |publisher=Compagnie des libraires associez |page=604 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2NlEAAAAcAAJ&dq=Fran%C3%A7ois+de+Montmorency+%226+may+1579%22&pg=PA604 |access-date=4 March 2024 |language=fr}}</ref>
* [[May 20]] &ndash; [[Isabella Markham]], English courtier (b. [[1527]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Levin |first1=Carole |last2=Bertolet |first2=Anna Riehl |last3=Carney |first3=Jo Eldridge |title=A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen: Exemplary Lives and Memorable Acts, 1500-1650 |date=3 November 2016 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-315-44071-2 |page=509 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kDglDwAAQBAJ&dq=Isabella+Markham+%2220+may+1579%22&pg=PA509 |access-date=4 March 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[June 17]] &ndash; [[Johannes Stadius]], Flemish astronomer, astrologer, mathematician (b. [[1527]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Eckstein |first1=Friedrich August |title=Nomenclator philologorum |date=1871 |publisher=B. G. Teubner |page=543 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MK0UAAAAYAAJ&dq=Johannes+Stadius+%2217+juni+1579%22&pg=PA543 |access-date=4 March 2024 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[June 25]] &ndash; [[Hatano Hideharu]], Japanese samurai (b. [[1541]])
* [[July 3]] &ndash; [[Edward Fitton, the elder]], Irish politician (b. [[1527]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ormerod |first1=George |title=The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester: Comp. from Original Evidences in Public Offices, the Harleian and Cottonian Mss., Parochial Registers, Private Muniments, Unpublished Ms. Collections of Successive Cheshire Antiquaries, and a Personal Survey of Every Township in the County; Incorporated with a Republication of King's Vale Royal and Leycester's Cheshire Antiquities |date=1882 |publisher=G. Routledge |page=553 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yIY1AQAAMAAJ&dq=Edward+Fitton+%223+july+1579%22&pg=PA553 |access-date=4 March 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[August 5]] &ndash; [[Stanislaus Hosius]], Polish Catholic cardinal (b. [[1504]])<ref>{{cite web |title=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of February 26, 1561 |url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1561.htm#Hosius |website=cardinals.fiu.edu |access-date=4 March 2024}}</ref>
* [[August 12]] &ndash; [[Domenico Bollani]], Bishop of Milan (b. [[1514]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Bollani, Domenico |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/domenico-bollani_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ |website=Treccani |language=it}}</ref>
* [[October 11]] &ndash; [[Sokollu Mehmed Pasha]], Turkish Janissary and Grand Vizier (b. [[1505]])
* [[October 13]] &ndash; [[William Drury]], English politician (b. [[1527]])<ref>{{cite ODNB |title=Drury, William|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-8101|year=2004 |access-date=4 March 2024 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/8101}}</ref>
* [[October 21]] &ndash; [[Tanegashima Tokitaka]], Japanese Daimyo (b. [[1528]])
* [[October 24]] &ndash; [[Albert V, Duke of Bavaria]] (b. [[1528]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Schreiber |first1=Friedrich Anton Wilhelm |title=Geschichte Bayerns in Verbindung mit der deutschen Geschichte: Bd. Von den Agilofingern bis zum Ausgang des Spanischen Erbfolgekrieges |date=1889 |publisher=Herdersche Verlagshandlung |page=564 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pXZCAAAAIAAJ&dq=Albrecht+V+%2224+oktober+1579%22&pg=PA563 |access-date=4 March 2024 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[November 9]] &ndash; [[Philip VI, Count of Waldeck]] (1567–1579) (b. [[1551]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hamann |first1=Richard |title=Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft |date=1936 |publisher=Verlag des Kunstgeschichtlichen Seminars der Universität Marburg an der Lahn |page=59 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C03rAAAAMAAJ&q=Philipp+VI+%229+november+1579%22 |access-date=4 March 2024 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[November 15]] &ndash; [[Francis David]], Hungarian religious reformer (b. [[1510]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Transilvania |date=2009 |publisher=Comitetul Județean de Cultură și Educație Socialistă |page=16 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QXL6W32wNy8C&q=%2215%20noiembrie%201579%22 |access-date=4 March 2024 |language=ro}}</ref>
* [[November 21]] &ndash; [[Thomas Gresham]], English merchant and financier (b. [[1519]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Calendar of Wills Proved and Enrolled in the Court of Husting, London, A.D. 1258-A.D. 1688: A.D. 1358-1688 |date=1890 |publisher=J.C. Francis |page=698 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ytUxAQAAMAAJ&dq=Thomas+Gresham+%2221+november+1579%22&pg=PA698 |access-date=4 March 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
* ''date unknown''
** [[Giovanni Battista Adriani]], Italian historian (b. c. [[1512]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Adriani, Giovanni Battista |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giovanni-battista-adriani_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ |website=Treccani |language=it}}</ref>
** [[Diego de Landa]], Spanish Bishop of the Yucatán (b. [[1524]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Archivo ibero-americano |date=1916 |publisher=J. Costa |page=266 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TEpQAQAAMAAJ&dq=Diego+de+Landa+%2229+de+abril+de+1579%22&pg=PA266 |access-date=4 March 2024 |language=es}}</ref>
** [[Hieronim Jarosz Sieniawski]], Polish noble (b. [[1516]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Boniecki |first1=Adam |title=Poczet rodów w Wielkiem Ksie̦stwie Litewskiem w XV i XVI wieku |date=1883 |publisher=Ośrodek Kultury Polskiej nad Renem |page=24 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=znw-AQAAIAAJ&dq=Hieronim+Jarosz+Sieniawski+%221579%22&pg=PA24-IA2 |access-date=4 March 2024 |language=pl}}</ref>
** [[Barbara Thenn]], Austrian merchant and Münzmeister  (b. [[1519]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Mitteilungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung |date=1982 |publisher=Böhlaus Nachf. |page=418 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ESl8t3X9gGIC&q=Barbara+Thenn+%221579%22 |access-date=4 March 2024 |language=de}}</ref>
** [[William Whittingham]], English Biblical scholar and religious reformer (b. [[1524]])<ref>{{cite ODNB |title=Whittingham, William|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-29329|year=2004 |access-date=4 March 2024 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/29329}}</ref>
** [[Voravongsa I]], Laotian king of [[Lan Xang]]
*''probable'' &ndash; [[Hans Staden]], German adventurer (b. [[1525]])