1564

Events

Births

• January 1 - Šurhaci, Chinese prince
• February 15 - Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist
• February 26 - Christopher Marlowe, English dramatist and poet
• March 7 - Pierre Coton, French Jesuit and royal confessor
• March 9 - David Fabricius, Frisian astronomer
• March 15 - William Augustus, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg
• March 20 - Thomas Morton, English bishop
• April 2 - William Bathe, Irish Jesuit priest
• April 26 - William Shakespeare, English dramatist and poet
• April 27 - Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland
• April 30 - Francis Hay, 9th Earl of Erroll, Scottish noble
• May 27 - Margherita Gonzaga, Duchess of Ferrara, Italian noble, patron of the arts
• June 11 - Joseph Heintz the Elder, Swiss artist
• June 12 - John Casimir, Duke of Saxe-Coburg
• June 28 - Cort Aslakssøn, Norwegian astronomer
• July 6 - Johanna Sibylla of Hanau-Lichtenberg, Countess consort of Wied-Runkel and Isenburg
• August 18 - Federico Borromeo, Cardinal Archbishop of Milan
• August 24 - Patrick Forbes, bishop in the Church of Scotland
• September 13 - Vincenzo Giustiniani, Italian banker and art collector
• September 24 - William Adams, English navigator and samurai
• September 25 - Magnus Brahe, Swedish noble
• September 28 - Sibylla of Anhalt, Duchess consort of Württemberg.
• October 15 - Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
• October 26 - Hans Leo Hassler, German composer and organist
• November 3 - Francisco Pacheco, Spanish artist
• November 11 - Martinus Smiglecius, Polish philosopher
• November 22 - Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English peer and traitor
• November 24 - Joseph Gaultier de la Vallette, French astronomer
• December 25
• * Johannes Buxtorf, German Calvinist theologian
• * Nicolaus Mulerius, Dutch astronomer and medical academic
• December 31 - Ernest II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, German ruler
• approximate date - Xue Susu, Chinese artist
• date unknown
• *Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Flemish painter
• *Daniel Chamier, French minister of religion
• *Kryštof Harant z Polžic a Bezdružic, Bohemian composer and Protestant rebel
• *Pedro Páez, Spanish Jesuit missionary to Ethiopia
• *Thomas Shirley, English privateer
• probable
• * Henry Chettle, English dramatist

  Deaths

• January 9 - Margaret Howard, Duchess of Norfolk
• February 18 - Michelangelo, Italian artist, architect and sculptor
• February 19 - Guillaume Morel, French classical scholar
• March 27 - Lütfi Pasha, Albanian-born Ottoman statesman, juridical scholar and poet of slave origin
• April - Pierre Belon, French naturalist
• April 9 - Georg Hartmann, German instrument maker
• May 2 - Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist
• May 27 - John Calvin, French Protestant reformer
• June 24 - Rani Durgavati, Indian queen
• July 23 - Eléanor de Roucy de Roye, French noble
• July 25 - Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor
• July 31 - Luís de Velasco, Viceroy of New Spain
• August 10 - Miyoshi Nagayoshi, Japanese samurai and daimyō
• August 30 - Duchess Sabina of Bavaria
• October 5 - Pierre de Manchicourt, Flemish composer
• October 6 - Guido Ascanio Sforza di Santa Fiora, Italian Catholic cardinal
• October 15 - Andreas Vesalius, Flemish anatomist
• October 18 - Johannes Acronius Frisius, German physician and mathematician
• December 6 - Ambrosius Blarer, influential German reformer in southern Germany and north-eastern Switzerland
• date unknown
• * Isabella Losa, Spanish scholar
• * Giovanni da Udine, Italian painter
• * Purandara Dasa, Indian musician
• * Charles Estienne, French anatomist
• * Isabella de Luna, Spanish-Italian courtesan
• * Manus O'Donnell, Irish leader
• probable - Maurice Scève, French poet