Events

• Sir Philip Sidney
  Philip Sidney
  Sir Philip Sidney was an English poet, courtier and soldier, and is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan Age...
  
   meets Penelope Devereaux, the inspiration for his Astrophel and Stella
  Astrophel and Stella
  Likely composed in the 1580s, Philip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella is an English sonnet sequence containing 108 sonnets and 11 songs. The name derives from the two Greek words, 'aster' and 'phil' , and the Latin word 'stella' meaning star. Thus Astrophel is the star lover, and Stella is his star...
  
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• The first primer in the Estonian language is published.
• First printed version of Don Juan Manuel's Tales of Count Lucanor, originally published in 1335.

Births

• April - Jakob Böhme
  Jakob Böhme
  Jakob Böhme was a German Christian mystic and theologian. He is considered an original thinker within the Lutheran tradition...
  
  , German theologian (d. 1624)
• August 14 - Robert Hayman
  Robert Hayman
  Robert Hayman was a poet, colonist and Proprietary Governor of Bristol's Hope colony in Newfoundland.-Early life and education:...
  
  , Newfoundland poet (d. 1629)
• August 15 - Bartol Kašić
  Bartol Kašic
  Bartol Kašić was a Croatian linguist. He wrote the first Croatian grammar and translated the Bible and the Roman Rite into Croatian...
  
  , Croatian linguist (d. 1650)
• date unknown
  • David Calderwood
    David Calderwood
    David Calderwood was a Scottish divine and historian.-Early life:Calderwood was educated at Edinburgh, where he took the degree of MA in 1593. In about 1604, he became minister of Crailing, near Jedburgh in Roxburghshire, where he became conspicuous for his resolute opposition to the introduction...
    
    , Scottish historian (d. 1650)
  • John Cotta
    John Cotta
    John Cotta was a physician in England and author of books and other texts on medicine and witchcraft.He wrote considerably about quack doctors, and exposed several in his book Ignorant Practisers of Physicke but still clearly believed in evil spirits, sorcerers and magic...
    
    , physician and writer (d. 1650)
  • Giovanni Stefano Menochio
    Giovanni Stefano Menochio
    Giovanni Stefano Menochio was an Italian Jesuit biblical scholar.- Life :Menochio was born at Padua, and entered the Society of Jesus on 25 May 1594. After the usual years of training and teaching the classics, he became professor of sacred scripture and then of moral theology at Milan; thereafter...
    
    , Jesuit scholar (d. 1655)
  • Cyril Tourneur
    Cyril Tourneur
    Cyril Tourneur was an English dramatist who enjoyed his greatest success during the reign of King James I of England. His best-known work is The Revenger's Tragedy , a play which has alternatively been attributed to Thomas Middleton.-Life:Cyril Tourneur was possibly the son of Captain Richard...
    
    , English dramatist (d. 1626)
  • William Vaughan
    William Vaughan (writer)
    -Life:He was the son of Walter Vaughan and was born at Golden Grove, Carmarthenshire, Wales—his father's estate. He was descended from an ancient prince of Powys. He was brother to John Vaughan, 1st Earl of Carbery and Henry Vaughan , a well-known Royalist leader in the English Civil War...
    
    , Welsh writer and colonist (d. 1641)

Deaths

• March 11 - Matthias Flacius
  Matthias Flacius
  Matthias Flacius Illyricus was a Lutheran reformer.He was born in Carpano, a part of Albona in Istria, son of Andrea Vlacich alias Francovich and Jacobea Luciani, daughter of a wealthy and powerful Albonian family...
  
  , Lutheran theologian (b. 1520)
• June 9 - Paulus Aemilius, Hebrew bibliographer and publisher
• July 14 - Richard Taverner
  Richard Taverner
  Richard Taverner is best known for his Bible translation, The Most Sacred Bible whiche is the holy scripture, conteyning the old and new testament, translated into English, and newly recognized with great diligence after most faythful exemplars by Rychard Taverner, commonly known as Taverner's...
  
  , Bible translator (b. c. 1505)
• August 14 - Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Spanish novelist and poet (b. 1503)
• September 17 - Heinrich Bullinger
  Heinrich Bullinger
  Heinrich Bullinger was a Swiss reformer, the successor of Huldrych Zwingli as head of the Zurich church and pastor at Grossmünster...
  
  , Swiss theologian (b. 1504)
• December 18 - Marcin Bielski
  Marcin Bielski
  Marcin Bielski was a Polish chronicler and satirical poet. He was born of noble parentage on the patrimonial estate of Biała, Pajęczno County , in the Polish province of Sieradz. The name Wolski is derived from his estate at Wola...
  
  , Polish chronicler and poet (b. 1495)
• date unknown
  • Diogo de Paiva de Andrada
    Diogo de Paiva de Andrada
    Diogo de Paiva de Andrada was a Portuguese theologian, born at Coimbra, the son of the grand treasurer of Joao III. His original bent was towards foreign mission...
    
    , Portuguese theologian (b. 1528)
  • Sir William Stevenson
    William Stevenson (poet)
    William Stevenson was an English clergyman and presumed playwright of the early English language comedy Gammer Gurton's Needle....
    
    , English poet (b. 1530)