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- Bible of KraliceBible of KraliceThe Bible of Kralice was the first complete translation of the Bible from the original languages into the Czech language. Translated by the Unity of the Brethren and printed in the town of Kralice nad Oslavou, the first edition had six volumes and was published between the years 1579 and 1593...
is published - the first translation of the Bible into the Czech languageCzech languageCzech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide. The language was known as Bohemian in English until the late 19th century...
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- Stephen GossonStephen GossonStephen Gosson was an English satirist.He was baptized at St George's church, Canterbury, on 17 April 1554. He entered Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1572, and on leaving the university in 1576 he went to London...
- The Schoole of Abuse - Martin de HoyarçabalMartin de HoyarçabalMartin de Hoyarçabal was a French Basque mariner. Little is generally known about his life. He was born in Ciboure, in the Iparralde, the French Basque Country. He is recognized for publishing one of the first Newfoundland pilots, a book which describes places and distances to aid sailors in...
- Les voyages aventureux du Capitaine Martin de Hoyarsal, habitant du çubiburuLes voyages aventureux du Capitaine Martin de Hoyarsal, habitant du çubiburuLes voyages aventureux du Capitaine Martin de Hoyarsal, habitant du çubiburu was a reference book for sailors known as a "navigational pilot", written by Basque seaman Martin de Hoyarçabal in 1579.... - Thomas LodgeThomas LodgeThomas Lodge was an English dramatist and writer of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.-Early life and education:...
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- February 9 - Johannes MeursiusJohannes MeursiusJohannes Meursius , was a Dutch classical scholar and antiquary.-Biography:...
, Dutch classical scholar (d. 1839) - August 1 - Luís Vélez de GuevaraLuís Vélez de GuevaraLuis Vélez de Guevara was a Spanish dramatist and novelist.Velez de Guevara was born at Écija and was of Jewish converso descent...
, Spanish dramatist and novelist (d. 1644) - August 23 - Thomas DempsterThomas DempsterThomas Dempster was a Scottish scholar and historian. Born into the aristocracy in Aberdeenshire, which comprises regions of both the Scottish highlands and the Scottish lowlands, he was sent abroad as a youth for his education. The Dempsters were Catholic in an increasingly Protestant country and...
, Scottish historian (d. 1625) - September 16 - Samuel CosterSamuel CosterSamuel Coster was a Dutch playwright.Coster was the fifth child of Adriaen Lennaertz, sexton and carpenter, and Aeltgen Jansd. By around 1605, he was a member of the Amsterdam rederijkerskamer "De Eglantier". Presumably he was helped into the society by rich friends, but then got himself to...
, Dutch dramatist (d. 1665) - October 4 - Guido Bentivoglio, Italian statesman and historian (d. 1644)
- December - John FletcherJohn Fletcher (playwright)John Fletcher was a Jacobean playwright. Following William Shakespeare as house playwright for the King's Men, he was among the most prolific and influential dramatists of his day; both during his lifetime and in the early Restoration, his fame rivalled Shakespeare's...
, dramatist (d. 1625) - date unknown
- Chimalpahin, Aztec historian (d. 1660)
- Johannes MesseniusJohannes MesseniusJohannes Messenius was a Swedish historian, dramatist and university professor. He was born in the village of Freberga, in Stenby parish in Östergötland, and died in Oulu, in modern-day Finland.-Childhood:...
, Swedish historian and dramatist (d. 1636) - Rhys PrichardRhys PrichardRhys Prichard was a Welsh clergyman and poet. He was vicar of Llandovery in the west of Wales and held various posts at St David's Cathedral. He was known as "Yr Hen Ficer"...
, Welsh-language poet (d. 1644) - Francis RousFrancis RousFrancis Rous or Rouse was an English politician and a prominent Puritan. He was also Provost of Eton, and wrote several theological and devotional works.-Early life:...
, religious writer (d. 1659) - Walter Yonge of ColytonWalter Yonge of ColytonWalter Yonge of Colyton and Devon was an English lawyer, merchant and diarist.-Life:He was the ancestor of Sir George Yonge, and great-great-grandson of John Yonge of Colliton and Devon, a well known merchant in Elizabethan England....
, diarist (d. 1649)
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- March 12 - Alessandro PiccolominiAlessandro PiccolominiAlessandro Piccolomini was an Italian humanist and philosopher from Siena, who promoted the popularization in the vernacular of Latin and Greek scientific and philosophical treatises...
, Italian philosopher (b. 1508) - November 21 - Cipriano PiccolpassoCipriano PiccolpassoCipriano di Michele Piccolpasso was a member of an Italian patrician family of Bologna that had been settled since the mid-fifteenth century in Castel Durante, which was an important center for the manufacture of maiolica...
, Italian poet and author (b. 1524) - date unknown
- Giovanni Battista AdrianiGiovanni Battista AdrianiGiovanni Battista Adriani was an Italian historian.He was born of a patrician family of Florence, and was secretary to the republic of Florence...
, Italian historian - Alonso de MolinaAlonso de MolinaAlonso de Molina was a Franciscan priest and grammarian, who wrote a well-known dictionary of the Nahuatl language published in 1571....
, Spanish grammarian and lexicographer - William SeresWilliam SeresWilliam Seres was an English Protestant printer, starting work in about 1546, and working in partnership with John Day for a few years. Day and Seres specialized in religious works, such as those by Robert Crowley, which were largely related to theological controversies of the time...
, English printer - William WhittinghamWilliam WhittinghamWilliam Whittingham was an English Biblical scholar and religious reformer. Educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, he became a zealous Protestant; as such he found it prudent to flee to France when Mary I ascended the throne of England....
, Biblical scholar
- Giovanni Battista Adriani