1583

Events

Births

  • January 8 Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (d. 1643)
  • March 3 Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English diplomat, poet, and philosopher (d. 1648)
  • April 10 Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher and writer (d. 1645)
  • June 16 Axel Oxenstierna, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (d. 1654)
  • June 20 Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (d. 1652)
  • July 2 Dodo Knyphausen, German soldier (d. 1636)
  • September Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian composer (d. 1643)
  • September 24 Albrecht von Wallenstein, Austrian general (d. 1634)
  • November 24 Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet (d. 1641)
  • December 17 Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey, English adventurer and soldier (d. 1642)
  • December 25 Orlando Gibbons, English composer (d. 1625)
  • date unknown
    • Hendrick Jacobszoon Lucifer, Dutch pirate and buccaneer (d. 1627)
    • Johann Heinrich Alting, German divine (d. 1644)
    • John Beaumont, English poet (d. 1627)
    • Bonaventura Elzevir, Dutch printer (d. 1652)
    • Stanisław Lubomirski, Polish nobleman (d. 1649)
    • Philip Massinger, English dramatist (d. 1640)
    • Hayashi Razan, Japanese neo-Confucianist scholar (d. 1657)
  • probable
    • Alexander Henderson, Scottish theologian (d. 1646)
    • Nzinga, warrior queen of Ndongo and Matamba (d. 1663)
    • Aurelian Townshend, English poet (d. 1643)

Deaths

  • March 18 King Magnus of Livonia (b. 1540)
  • April Lucas David, Prussian historian (b. 1503)
  • May 6 Zacharias Ursinus, German theologian (b. 1534)
  • June 6
    • Nakagawa Kiyohide, Japanese military commander (b. 1556)
    • Shibata Katsutoyo, Japanese military commander (b. 1556)
  • June 9 Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1525)
  • June Oda Nobutaka, Japanese samurai (b. 1558)
  • July 1 Sakuma Morimasa, Japanese samurai and warlord (beheaded)
  • July 6 Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1519)
  • September 9 Humphrey Gilbert, English explorer (born c. 1537)
  • September 16 Catherine Jagiellon, queen of John II of Sweden (b. 1526)
  • November 11 Gerald Fitzgerald, 15th Earl of Desmond, Irish rebel
  • November 24 René de Birague, French cardinal and chancellor (b. 1506)
  • December 14 Ivan Fyodorov, Russian printer
  • December 31 Thomas Erastus, Swiss theologian (b. 1524)
  • date unknown
    • Shibata Katsuie, Japanese military commander (b. 1530)
    • Andrei Kurbskii, Russian writer (b. 1528)
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