- December 1
- Edmund Campion English jesuit, hanged at age 42. [1]
- Giovanni Morone Italian theologian/diplomat/cardinal, dies at age 71. [1]
1581
- January 22
- Joost de Damhoudere Flemish lawyer, dies. [1]
- Seerp Galama Dutch nobleman/military/politician, dies at age 52. [1]
- April 3
- Huibert Duifhuis Roman Catholic pastor (Rotterdam/Utrecht), dies. [1]
1582
- March 18
- Jean Jaurequi, of Basque, Spain, attempts an assassination of Willem of Orange at Antwerp. He fails, is caught and lynched. [1]
- May 5
- Charlotte de Bourbon Princess of Orange, dies. [1]
- December 11
- Fernando Alvarez de Toledo marquis of Soria, dies at about age 75. [1]
1583
- March 6
- Zacharias Ursinus German theologist (Heidelberger), dies at age 48. [1]
1584
- January 4
- Tobias Stimmer Swiss painter/cartoonist/playwright, dies at age 44. [1]
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- January 30
- Jonker Wigbold van Ewsum mister of Nienoord, dies in battle. [1]
- Pieter Jansz Pourbus Flemish painter, dies. [1]
- March 18
- Ivan IV the terrible, Russian tsar (1547-84), dies at age 53. [1]
1585
- March 10
- Rembert Dodoens [Rembertus Dodonaeus], physician/botanist, dies at age 67. [1]
- April 4
- Caspar de Robles Spanish viceroy of Frisia, dies at about age 57. [1]
- April 10
- Gregory XIII [Ugo Buoncampagni] Italian Pope (1572-85), dies. [1]
1586
- January 25
- Lucas Cranach "the Young" German painter, dies at age 70. [1]
1587
- February 8
- Mary, Queen of Scots (1560-87), is beheaded at age 44 at Fotheringhay Castle in England for her complicity in a plot to murder Queen Elizabeth. [1]
- April 18
- John Foxe author (Book of Martyrs), dies. [1]
- May 18
- Felix van Cantalice Italian saint, dies. [1]
- December 8
- Mary Queen of Scots (1560-1587), executed. [1]
1588
- February 9
- Marquis of Santa Cruz Spanish Admiral, dies. [1]
- February 10
- Joost Sybrantsz Buyck Amsterdam merchant/regent, dies at about age 82. [1]
- March 17
- Petrus Dathenus Flemish minister/physician (Psalms of David), dies. [1]
- April 4
- Frederik II King of Denmark/Norway (1559-88), dies at age 53. [1]
- April 19
- Paolo Veronese [Cagliari] painter, dies. [1]
- December 23
- Hendrik de Guise French leader of Catholic League, murdered at age 37. [1]
1589
- January 5
- Catherine de' Medici Queen mother of France, dies at age 69. [1]
- March 22
- Lodovico Guicciardini Ital historian, dies at age 67. [1]
1590
- January 7
- Jacob Andreae German theologist (Formulae Concordiae), dies at age 61. [1]
- February 4
- Gioseffo Zarlino composer, dies at age 73. [1]
- February 12
- François Hotman/Hotomanus French lawyer/diplomat, dies at age 65. [1]
- March 14
- Philip van Egmont General/prince of Gavere, dies in battle at age 30. [1]
- April 6
- Francis Walsingham English Secretary of State, dies at about age 57. [1]
- May 9
- Karel "Cardinal" van Bourbon archbishop of Rouen, dies at age 66. [1]
- December 20
- Ambroise Paré French surgeon, dies at age 80. [1]
- December 27
- Emmanuel-Philibert of Lalaing marquis of Renty, dies at age 33. [1]
1591
- January 7
- Jacobus de Kerle French/Flemish composer, dies at about age 59. [1]
- January 19
- Edmond Auger French jesuit (under Henri III), dies at about age 60. [1]
- May 15
- Dimitri Ivanovitch Russian son of czar Ivan IV, murdered at age 9. [1]
- May 17
- Jost/Jobst/Jodocus Amman Swiss cartoonist/graphic artist, dies at age 51. [1]
- October 15
- Death of Pope Gregory XIV. [565.361]
- December 14
- Juan de la Cruz [de Yepes] Spanish Carmelet/poet/saint, dies. [1]
- December 30
- Innocent IX [Giovanni Facchinetti] Pope, (1591 62 days), dies at age 72. [1]
1592
- January 5
- Willem II Duke of Gulik/Kleef/Gelre, dies at about age 75. [1]
- January 6
- Johan Casimir palsgrave at the Rhine, dies. [1]
- December 2
- Alexander Farnese land guardian of Netherlands (1579-92), dies at age 46. [1]
1593
- February 7
- Jacques Amyot French humanist/abbot of Bellozanne, dies at age 79. [1]
- April 6
- Henry Barrow English puritian/Congressionalist, hanged. [1]
- John Greenwood English Congressionalist, hanged. [1]
- May 29
- John Penry English congressionalist, executed. [1]
- May 30
- Christopher Marlowe, British dramatist (Tamburlaine the Great), killed in a fight in London, England. [1] [5] [66.38]
- July 11
- Giuseppe Arcimboldo first surrealist painter, dies (birth date unkn). [1]
1594
- February 2
- Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina Italian composer, dies at age 68. [1]
- May 4
- Paul Buys Grand Pensionary of Holland, dies at age 62. [1]
- May 31
- Tintoretto Italian Mannerist painter, dies at age 75. [1]
- December 5
- Gerardus Mercator Flemish philosopher/cartographer, dies at age 82. [1]
1595
- January 5
- Ercole Procaccini Italian painter, dies. [1]
- January 14
- Ferdinand archduke of Austria/mayor of Bohemenia, dies. [1]
- January 16
- Murad III sultan of Turkey (1574-95), dies. [1]
- January 28
- Sir Francis Drake English navigator/pirate (Porto Bello West Indies), dies at about age 50. [1]
- February 20
- Ernst archduke of Austria, dies at age 41. [1]
- February 21
- Robert Southwell English Jesuit/poet, hanged. [1]
- April 25
- Torquato Tasso Italian poet/playwright, dies at age 51. [1]
- May 26
- Philippus Nerius [Filippo Neri] Italian merchant/saint, dies at age 79. [1]
- December 10
- Reynier Cant mayor of Amsterdam, dies at about age 59. [1]
- December 11
- Philip III van Croij prince of Chimay/general, dies at age 69. [1]
- December 27
- Pietro Pontio composer, dies at age 63. [1]
1596
- January 21
- John Ligarius German theologist/prime minister, dies at age 66. [1]
- May 27
- Tibaldi II Italian painter/sculptor/architect, dies. [1]
- December 8
- Luis de Carabajal first Jewish author in America, executed in México. [1]
1597
- February 15
- Pieter J Kies Dutch mayor of Haarlem (1572-73), dies at about age 66. [1]
- March 10
- Petrus Forestus Dutch physician (Willem of Orange), dies. [1]
- May 20
- Matthijs Heldt dies in battle. [1]
- December 18
- Barbara Blomberg German mistress of emperor Karel, dies at age 67. [1]
- December 21
- Death of Saint Peter Canisius AKA Peter de Hondt at age 76 in Fribourg, Switzerland; Dutch Jesuit, founder of many Jesuit centers in Germany including Ingolstadt and Prague and Catholicism, advisor to the Bishop of Augsburg at the Council of Trent, leader in the "counterreformation" in Germany, author of "German Catechism". [1] [37]
1598
- January 7
- Theodorus I [Fedor Ivanovitch], czar of Russia (1584-98), dies at age 40. [1]
- January 8
- Johan Georg elector of Brandenburg (1571-91), dies at age 72. [1]
- February 10
- Anna van Bull first wife of Polish/Swedish king Sigismund II, dies. [1]
- September 13
- Philip II King of Spain (1556-98), dies at age 71. [1]
- December 6
- Elbertus Leoninus Dutch lawyer/politician, dies at about age 78. [1]
- December 15
- Philip van Marnix Flemish ruler of Saint Aldegonde/poet, dies at age 58. [1]
1599
- January 13
- Edmund Spenser poet (Faerie Queene), dies at about age 46. [1]
- January 22
- Cristofano Malvezzi composer, dies at age 51. [1]
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