Editing 1584

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[[File:De moordaanslag op prins Willem I door Balthazar Gerards in 1584, objectnr A 13934.tif|thumb|right|300px|[[July 10]]: Willem van Oranje, leader of the Dutch Republic, is assassinated by gunman]]
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== Events ==
[[File:Fyodor&boris.jpg|thumb|right|300px|[[March 18]]: [[Feodor I of Russia|Feodor I]] becomes the new [[Tsar of Russia]].]]
[[File:Roanoke map 1584.JPG|thumb|right|110px|[[June 4]]: [[Roanoke Island]] is discovered by English settlers.]]

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 11]] &ndash; Sir [[Walter Mildmay]] is given a royal licence to found [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge]] in England.<ref>{{cite ODNB|first=L. L.|last=Ford|title=Mildmay, Sir Walter (1520/21–1589)|year=2004|edition=Online|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/18696|access-date=2013-09-02|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/18696}}</ref>
* [[January 16]] &ndash; Roman Catholic priest [[George Haydock]], imprisoned in the [[Tower of London]] since 1582, states during an interrogation that he claimed that Queen Elizabeth, leader of the [[Church of England]], was a [[heresy|heretic]]. Convicted of treason, he is executed on February 12.<ref>"Ven. George Haydock", in ''The Catholic Encyclopedia'', Vol. 7. (Robert Appleton Company, 1910)</ref> 
* [[February 2]] &ndash; (6th waning moon of the Magha, [[Buddhist calendar|BE 2126]]) In what is now Thailand, Prince [[Naresuan]], the [[Uparaja]] of the [[Ayutthaya Kingdom]] and the son of [[Maha Thammaracha (king of Ayutthaya)|King Mahathammarachathirat]] carries out the orders of Burma's King [[Nanda Bayin]], and leads an army to suppress a rebellion by the Viceroy of the Ava Kingdom, [[Thado Minsaw of Ava|Thado Minsaw]]. Arriving in April, Naresuan learns that King Nanda has ordered Naresuan to be assassinated, and begins his own rebellion against Burma, the [[Burmese–Siamese War (1584–1593)|Burmese–Siamese War]].<ref name=Hmannan>''Hmannan Yazawin'' (Ministry of Information of Myanmar, 2003)</ref>
* [[February 22]] &ndash; After being falsely accused of various charges, [[Jeremias II of Constantinople|Jeremias II Tranos]], leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church as [[Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople]], is deposed by his fellow bishops and exiled to the island of [[Rhodes]]. Jeremias is replaced by [[Pachomius II of Constantinople|Pachomius II Patestos]].<ref>Demetrius Kiminas, ''The Ecumenical Patriarchate'' (Wildside Press, 2009) p.38,46</ref> 
* [[March 5]] – The city of [[Karlstad]], [[Sweden]] gaines [[city status]] by [[Charles IX of Sweden|Duke Charles.]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Palmblad |first1=Harry V. E. |last2=Schmidt-Phiseldeck |first2=Kay |date=1933 |title=Svensk Historietaenkning |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40074167 |journal=Books Abroad |volume=7 |issue=2 |pages=229 |doi=10.2307/40074167 |jstor=40074167 |issn=0006-7431}}</ref> 
* [[March 28]] ([[Old Style and New Style dates|O.S.]] [[March 18]]) &ndash; [[Ivan the Terrible]], ruler of [[Russia]] since [[1533]], dies; he is succeeded as Tsar by his son, [[Feodor I of Russia|Feodor]].

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 24]] &ndash; (1st waning of Kason [[Burmese calendar|946 ME]]) In what is now [[Myanmar]], Prince Naresuan of the Ayutthaya Kingdom (now Thailand) suppresses the rebellion of Thado Minsaw of the Ava Kingdom.<ref name=Hmannan/>
* [[April 28]] &ndash; (Tenshō 12, 18th day of the 3rd month) In Japan, the [[Battle of Komaki and Nagakute|Battle of Komaki]] begins as fight between [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] and [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] when Ieyasu, commander of 100,000 men, begins the occupation of the Komakiyama Castle, prompting Hideyoshi to advance from [[Osaka]] with 30,000 troops.
* [[May 17]] &ndash; (Tenshō 12, 8th day of the 4th month) The conflict between [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] and [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] culminates in the [[Battle of Komaki and Nagakute|Battle of Nagakute]].
* [[June 1]] &ndash; With the death of the [[François, Duc d'Anjou|Duc d'Anjou]], the [[Huguenot]] [[Henry IV of France|Henry of Navarre]] becomes heir-presumptive to the throne of France.
* [[June 4]] &ndash; [[Walter Raleigh]] sends [[Philip Amadas]] and [[Arthur Barlowe]] to explore the [[Outer Banks]] of [[Virginia]] (modern-day [[North Carolina]]), with a view to establishing an [[English people|English]] [[colony]]; they locate [[Roanoke Island]].<ref name=tt>{{cite book|first=Bernard|last=Grun|title=The Timetables of History|edition=3rd|location=New York|publisher=Simon & Schuster|year=1991|isbn=0-671-74919-6|page=259|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/timetablesofhist1991grun}}</ref>
* [[June 11]] &ndash; Walk (modern-day [[Valka]] and [[Valga, Estonia|Valga]], towns in [[Latvia]] and [[Estonia]] respectively), receives city rights from [[Poland|Polish]] king [[Stefan Bathory]].

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 3]] &ndash; The [[Siege of Antwerp (1584–1585)|Siege of Antwerp]] by the Spanish Army begins<ref>Ronald P. de Graaf, ''Oorlog, mijn arme schapen'' (Uitgeverij Van Wijnen, 2004) p.128</ref> and lasts for 13 months until Antwerp's surrender on August 17, 1585.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Antwerp|title=Battle of Antwerp {{!}} Summary|work=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=2017-11-21|language=en}}</ref>
* [[July 5]] &ndash; The [[Maronite College]] is established in [[Rome]].<ref>{{cite book |last1= Abouzayd|first1=Shafiq |editor1-last=King |editor1-first=Daniel |title=The Syriac world |date=2019 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=978-1-138-89901-8|page=739 |chapter=The Maronite Church|language=en}}</ref>
* [[July 10]] &ndash; [[William the Silent|Willem van Oranje]], the leader of the [[Dutch Republic]] as [[Stadtholder]] of Holland, is assassinated in [[Delft]]. [[Balthasar Gérard]], who bought two [[wheel-lock]] pistols and then made an appointment with at the [[Prinsenhof]], shoots William in the chest at close range and fatally wounds him, making William the first head of state to be assassinated with a handgun.<ref>"The pistol as assassination weapon: A case of technological lag", by A. D. Harvey, ''Terrorism and Political Violence'' (June 1991)</ref> 
* [[August 6]] &ndash; [[Russian conquest of Siberia]]: Russian General [[Yermak Timofeyevich]], who had been dispatched by Ivan the Terrible in 1582 to conquer the [[Khanate of Sibir]], is killed along with all but one member of his invading force in an ambush commanded by [[Kuchum Khan]], the ruler of Siberia.<ref>Yuri Semyenov, ''The Conquest of Siberia'' (Routledge & Sons, 1944) p.84</ref><ref>A. J. Haywood, ''Siberia: A Cultural History'' (Oxford University Press, 2010) p.18</ref>
* [[August 7]] &ndash; In [[Lima]] in the [[Viceroyalty of Peru]], Italian printer [[Antonio Ricardo]] receives official permission to set up the first printing press in [[South America]], and prints the first publication there, ''Pragmatica'', a four-page outline of how the new [[Gregorian calendar]] (adopted 1582) works.<ref>Nicole Howard, ''The Book: The Life Story of a Technology'' (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005) p.86</ref>
* [[August 11]] &ndash; (Tenshō 12, 16th day of the 7th month) The [[Tenshō embassy]], Japan's first diplomatic mission to Europe, arrives in Portugal with four teenagers— Julião Nakaura, Mancio Itō, Martinho Hara and Miguel Chijiwa— who had become converts to Christianity.<ref>"Spiritual Saga: When Four Boys Went to Meet the Pope, 400 Years Ago", by Michael Cooper, ''The Japan Times'', February 21, 1982</ref>
* [[September 17]] &ndash; In what is now Belgium, the [[Calvinist Republic of Ghent]] comes to an end after seven years when its capital, [[Ghent]], falls following [[Siege of Ghent (1583–1584)|a siege of 13 months]]. [[Jan van Hembyze]], leader of the republic since October 1583, surrenders the city to [[Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma|Alexander Farnese]], Governor of the [[Spanish Netherlands]].<ref>{{cite book|url=http://chestofbooks.com/reference/American-Cyclopaedia-V7/Ghent.html|chapter=Ghent|title=The American Cyclopaedia|first1=George|last1=Ripley|author-link1=George Ripley (transcendentalist)|first2=Charles A.|last2=Dana|author-link2=Charles Anderson Dana|volume=7|year=1873|publisher=D. Appleton & Co|location=New York|access-date=2011-12-04}}</ref>

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 26]] &ndash; At the [[Battle of Slunj]] in the Kingdom of Croatia, an Ottoman invasion led by [[Ferhad Pasha Sokolović]] is turned back by Croatian forces, aided by troops of the Habsburg monarchy.<ref>Ive Mažuran, ''Povijest Hrvatske od 15. stoljeća do 18. stoljeća'' [History of Croatia from the 15th to the 18th century] (in Croatian) (Golden marketing, 1998) p. 138.</ref>
* [[November 23]] &ndash; In the wake of the [[Throckmorton plot]] to overthrow her government, Queen Elizabeth convenes a new session of the English House of Commons since 1581. [[John Puckering]] is appointed by her as the Speaker of the House of Commons, which has 460 members. The parliament passes the [[Safety of the Queen, etc. Act 1584|Safety of the Queen Act]] and the [[Jesuits, etc. Act 1584|Jesuits Act 1584]],<ref>[http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/parliament/1584 "5th Parliament of Elizabeth I, 27 Eliz. I"], History of Parliament online</ref>
* [[November 24]] &ndash; [[Albert Fontenay]] sends an enciphered letter to [[Mary, Queen of Scots]] that will become the chief evidence against her in her trial for treason during the [[Babington Plot]]. After becoming a witness for the English government in return for immunity from prosecution, [[Jérôme Pasquier (courtier)|Jérôme Pasquier]] will decipher the letter in 1586, leading to Mary's conviction for an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth and to overthrow the English government.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/calendarofstatep08grea/page/68/mode/ "The Enterprise of England"], in ''Calendar of the state papers relating to Scotland and Mary, Queen of Scots, 1547-1605'' (General Register Office of Scotland, 1914) pp.74-75</ref> 
* [[December 31]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Joinville]] is signed secretly between the French Catholic League and [[Spain]].<ref>Frederic J. Baumgartner, ''Radical Reactionaries: The Political Thought of the French Catholic League'' (Librairie Droz, 1975)</ref>

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Ratu Hijau]] becomes [[queen regnant]] of the [[Malays (ethnic group)|Malay]] [[Patani Kingdom]].<ref>{{cite journal|last= Amirell|first= Stefan |title=The Blessings and Perils of Female Rule: New Perspectives on the Reigning Queens of Patani, c. 1584–1718 |journal=Journal of Southeast Asian Studies |volume=42 |number= 2 |year=2011|pages= 303–23 |doi= 10.1017/S0022463411000063 |s2cid= 143695148 |url=https://www.academia.edu/1950979 }}</ref>
* [[Belgians|Belgian]] cartographer and geographer [[Abraham Ortelius]] features [[Ming dynasty]]-era [[Wheelbarrow#Chinese sailing carriage|Chinese carriages with masts and sails]], in his atlas ''Theatrum Orbis Terrarum''; concurrent and later Western writers also take note of this peculiar Chinese invention.
* This year, according to Italian heretic [[Jacopo Brocardo]], is regarded as an [[Apocalypse|apocalyptic]] inauguration of a major new cycle.</onlyinclude>

== Births ==
[[File:Archduchess Maria - Servitenkloster, Innsbruck.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Archduchess Maria of Austria (1584-1649)|Archduchess Maria of Austria]]]]
[[File:Margarita de Austria, reina de España.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain]]]]
* [[January 1]] &ndash; [[:fr:Charles Delorme|Charles Delorme]], French physician and the royal doctor for Kings Henri IV , Louis XIII and Louis XIV  (d. [[1678]])
* [[January 7]] &ndash; [[Karan Singh II]], Maharana of Mewar (d. [[1628]])
* [[January 29]] &ndash; [[Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange]] (d. [[1647]])
* [[February 9]] &ndash; [[Francesco Maria Richini]], Italian architect (d. [[1658]])
* [[February 12]] &ndash; [[Caspar Barlaeus]], Dutch polymath (d. [[1648]])
* [[February 18]] &ndash; [[Philippe de Carteret II]], governor of [[Jersey]] (d. [[1643]])
* [[February 19]] &ndash; [[Angelo Nardi (painter)|Angelo Nardi]], Italian painter (d. [[1664]])
* [[February 26]] &ndash; [[Albert VI of Bavaria]] (d. [[1666]])
* [[March 15]] &ndash; [[Philip, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg]] (d. [[1663]])
* [[March 22]] &ndash; [[Grégoire de Saint-Vincent]], Flemish Jesuit mathematician (d. [[1667]])
* [[March 26]] &ndash; [[John II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken]] (d. [[1635]])
* [[March 29]] &ndash; [[Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron]], English parliamentary general (d. [[1648]])
* [[April 6]] &ndash; [[Bridget de Vere, Countess of Berkshire]], English noblewoman (d. [[1630]])
* [[April 10]] &ndash; [[Sibylle Elisabeth of Württemberg]], Duchess consort of Saxony (d. [[1606]])
* [[April 19]] &ndash; [[John Hales (theologian)|John Hales]], English theologian (d. [[1656]])
* [[April 20]] &ndash; [[Sir John Langham, 1st Baronet]], English Member of Parliament (d. [[1671]])
* [[April 23]] &ndash; [[Jorge de Cárdenas y Manrique de Lara]], Spanish noble (d. [[1644]])
* [[April 29]] &ndash; [[Melchior Teschner]], German cantor, composer and theologian (d. [[1635]])
* [[May 17]] &ndash; [[John Jacob Hess]], Swiss Anabaptist minister and martyr (d. [[1639]])
* [[May 23]] &ndash; [[Maximilian von und zu Trauttmansdorff]], Austrian diplomat (d. [[1650]])
* [[May 27]] &ndash; [[Michael Altenburg]], German composer (d. [[1640]])
* [[June 6]] &ndash; [[Yuan Chonghuan]], Chinese politician, military general and writer (d. [[1630]])
* [[June 15]] &ndash; [[Anna Sophie of Anhalt]], German noblewoman (d. [[1652]])
* [[June 16]] &ndash; [[Archduchess Maria of Austria (1584–1649)|Archduchess Maria of Austria]] (d. [[1649]])
* [[June 25]] &ndash; [[Richard Strode (died 1669)|Richard Strode]], English politician (d. [[1669]])
* [[June 26]] &ndash; [[Robert Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Leinster]], English politician (d. [[1659]])
* [[July 17]] &ndash; [[Agnes of Brandenburg, Duchess of Pomerania]], later Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg (d. [[1629]])
* [[July 26]] &ndash; [[Gaspard III de Coligny]], Marshal of France (d. [[1646]])
* [[August 1]] &ndash; [[Emanuel Scrope, 1st Earl of Sunderland]], English statesman (d. [[1630]])
* [[August 6]] &ndash; [[Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull]], English soldier (d. [[1643]])
* [[August 10]] &ndash; [[John Casimir, Count of Erbach-Breuberg]] (1606–1627) (d. [[1627]])
* [[August 11]] &ndash; [[Philip Ernest, Count of Hohenlohe-Langenburg]] (1610–1628) (d. [[1628]])
* [[August 13]] &ndash; [[Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk]], English politician (d. [[1640]])
* [[August 28]] &ndash; [[Richard Treat]], American city founder (d. [[1669]])
* [[August 29]] &ndash; [[Patrick Young]], Scottish librarian (d. [[1652]])
* [[September 11]] &ndash; [[Thomas van Erpe]], Dutch Orientialist, cartographer (d. [[1624]])
* [[September 13]] &ndash; [[Francis Julius of Saxe-Lauenburg]], Prince (d. [[1634]])
* [[September 15]] &ndash; [[Georg Rudolf Weckherlin]], German poet (d. [[1653]])
* [[September 16]] &ndash; [[Giulio Roma]], Italian Catholic cardinal (d. [[1652]])
* [[September 17]] &ndash; [[John Finch, 1st Baron Finch]], English judge (d. [[1660]])
* [[October 10]] &ndash; [[Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke]] (d. [[1650]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, Shrewsbury|title=Transactions ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UH8_AQAAMAAJ|year=1911|publisher=Adnitt and Naunton|page=259}}</ref>
* [[November 3]] &ndash; [[Jean-Pierre Camus]], French Catholic bishop (d. [[1652]])
* [[November 10]] &ndash; [[Catherine of Sweden, Countess Palatine of Kleeburg]] (d. [[1638]])
* [[November 16]] &ndash; [[Barbara Sophie of Brandenburg]], duchess consort and later regent of Württemberg (d. [[1636]])
* [[November 18]] &ndash; [[Gaspar de Crayer]], Flemish painter (d. [[1669]])
* [[December 15]] &ndash; [[Queen Inmok]], Korean royal consort (d. [[1632]])
* [[December 16]] &ndash; [[John Selden]], English jurist (d. [[1654]])
* [[December 25]] &ndash; [[Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain]] (d. [[1611]])
* [[December 27]] &ndash; [[Philipp Julius, Duke of Pomerania]] (d. [[1625]])
* [[December 28]] &ndash; [[Juan de Dicastillo]], Spanish theologian (d. [[1653]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[William Baffin]], English explorer (d. [[1622]])
** [[Francis Beaumont]], English dramatist (d. [[1616]])
** [[Antonio Cifra]], Italian composer (d. [[1629]])
** [[Hu Zhengyan]], Chinese artist, printmaker, calligrapher and publisher (d. [[1674]])
** [[Miyamoto Musashi]], Japanese samurai, artist, strategist, rōnin and philosopher, known for [[The Book of Five Rings]] (written [[1643]]) (d. [[1645]])
** [[Mathieu Molé]], French statesman (d. [[1656]])
** [[Chiara Varotari]], Italian Baroque painter (d. [[1663]])
** [[Herman Wrangel]], Swedish soldier and politician (d. [[1643]])

== Deaths ==
[[File:Bernal Diaz del Castillo.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Bernal Díaz del Castillo]]]]
[[File:Vasnetsov Ioann 4.jpg|thumb|110px|Tsar [[Ivan IV of Russia]]]]
[[File:Carlo Borromeo.jpg|thumb|110px|Saint [[Charles Borromeo]]]]
* [[January 4]] &ndash; [[Tobias Stimmer]], Swiss painter and drawer (b. [[1539]])
* [[January 11]] &ndash; [[Bernal Díaz del Castillo]], Spanish constiquador (b. [[1496]])
* [[January 15]] &ndash; [[Martha Leijonhufvud]], politically active Swedish noble (b. [[1520]])
* [[February 18]] &ndash; [[Antonio Francesco Grazzini]], Italian writer (b. [[1503]])
* [[February 19]] &ndash; [[Anna de' Medici (1569–1584)|Anna de' Medici]], Tuscan princess (b. [[1569]])
* [[February 27]] &ndash; [[Yi I]] of Joseon, Korean Confucian scholar (b. [[1536]])
* [[March 10]] &ndash; [[Thomas Norton]], English politician and writer (b. [[1532]])
* [[March 18]] &ndash; Tsar [[Ivan IV of Russia]] (b. [[1530]])
* [[May 10]] &ndash; [[Luigi Cornaro (cardinal)|Luigi Cornaro]], Italian Catholic cardinal (b. [[1517]])
* [[March 12]] &ndash; [[Kasper Franck]], German theologian (b. [[1543]])
* [[April 13]] &ndash; [[Jan Borukowski]], royal secretary of Poland (b. [[1524]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Tomasz Święcki|title=Tomasza Święckiego Historyczne pamiątki znamienitych rodzin i osób dawnej Polski|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OdRbAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA283|year=1858|publisher=Nakładem S.H. Merzbacha|pages=283|language=pl}}</ref>
* [[April 27]] &ndash; [[Mikołaj "the Red" Radziwiłł]], Polish magnate (b. [[1512]])
* [[May 18]] &ndash; [[Ikeda Tsuneoki]], Japanese daimyō and military commander (in battle) (b. [[1536]])
* [[May 25]] &ndash; [[Prospero Spani]], Italian sculptor (b. [[1516]])
* [[June 10]] &ndash; [[François, Duke of Anjou]] (b. [[1555]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Mark W. Konnert|title=Local Politics in the French Wars of Religion: The Towns of Champagne, the Duc de Guise, and the Catholic League, 1560-95|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3x-KAF0yFLIC&pg=PA161|year=2006|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|isbn=978-0-7546-5593-0|pages=161|language=en}}</ref>
* [[June 13]] &ndash; [[János Zsámboky]], Hungarian scholar (b. [[1531]])
* [[July 10]] 
** [[Francis Throckmorton]], conspirator against Queen Elizabeth I of England (executed; b. [[1554]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Leo Hicks|author2=John Harland Hicks|title=An Elizabethan Problem: Some Aspects of the Careers of Two Exile-adventurers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vQ1IAAAAMAAJ|year=1964|publisher=Fordham University Press|isbn=978-0-7837-0450-0|page=31}}</ref>
** [[William the Silent]], Prince of Orange (assassinated; b. [[1533]])<ref>{{cite book|author=I.L. Leeb|title=The Ideological Origins of the Batavian Revolution: History and Politics in the Dutch Republic 1747–1800|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_aQQ-PFmC0UC&pg=PA19|date=31 July 1973|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-90-247-5157-0|pages=19|language=en}}</ref>
* [[July 12]] &ndash; [[Steven Borough]], English explorer (b. [[1525]])
* [[July 14]] &ndash; [[Balthasar Gérard]], French assassin of [[William the Silent]] (executed; b. [[1557]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Sir Roger Williams|title=The Works of Sir Roger Williams|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sIcbAAAAMAAJ|year=1972|publisher=Clarendon Press|isbn=978-0-19-812428-3|page=xxiv}}</ref>
* [[July 23]] &ndash; [[John Day (printer)|John Day]], English Protestant printer (b. [[1522]])
* [[August 12]] &ndash; [[Carolus Sigonius]], Italian humanist (b. [[1524]])
* [[August 22]] &ndash; [[Jan Kochanowski]], Polish writer (b. [[1530]])
* October &ndash; [[Colin Campbell, 6th Earl of Argyll]], Scottish noble and politician (b. [[1541]])
* [[October 17]] &ndash; [[Richard Gwyn]], Welsh Catholic martyr, canonised<ref>{{cite book|title=Catholic Currents|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AvnhAAAAMAAJ|year=1969|publisher=Triumph Magazine, Incorporated|page=4|language=en}}</ref>
* [[November 3]] &ndash; [[Charles Borromeo]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] cardinal, canonised (b. [[1538]])
* [[November 17]] &ndash; [[Eric II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg]] (b. [[1528]])
* [[December 26]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Francesco Commendone]], Italian Catholic cardinal (b. [[1523]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Elena Anguissola]], Italian painter and nun (b. c. [[1532]])
** [[Michał Wiśniowiecki]], Polish–Lithuanian noble  (b. [[1529]])

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