Events

• Mary I of Scotland sent to France

Births

• Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher, astronomer, occultist, and heretic, (burned at the stake) 1600
• Cornelis Ketel , Dutch painter
• Carel van Mander, Dutch painter and poet (d. 1606)
• Francesco Soriano, Italian composer of the Roman School
• Simon Stevin, Dutch mathematician and engineer
• Tomás Luis de Victoria, renowned Spanish composer

Deaths

• March 23 - Itagaki Nobukata, retainer of Takeda Shingen
• September 7 - Catherine Parr, queen of King Henry VIII of England
• Sigismund I of Poland (b. 1467)