Directory

1586 CE

Sourced entries for 1586 CE.

Births

  • January 1 – Pau Claris i Casademunt, Catalan ecclesiastic (d. 1641)source
  • January 20 – Johann Hermann Schein, German composer of the early Baroque era (d. 1630)source
  • February 26 – Niccolò Cabeo, Italian Jesuit writer, theologian (d. 1657)source
  • April 2 – Pietro Della Valle, Italian composer (d. 1652)source
  • April 5 – Christopher Levett, English explorer (d. 1630)source
  • April 12 (bapt.) – John Ford, English dramatist and poet (d. c. 1639)source
  • April 20 – Saint Rose of Lima, Spanish colonist in Lima (d. 1617)source
  • April 24 – Henry Hastings, 5th Earl of Huntingdon, English noble (d. 1643)source
  • July 5 – Thomas Hooker, prominent Puritan colonial leader (d. 1647)source
  • July 7 – Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English courtier (d. 1646)source
  • October 28 – Francis West, Deputy Governor of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia (d. 1634)source
  • November 27 – Sir John Wray, 2nd Baronet, English politician (d. 1655)source
  • December 6 – Niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer and physicist (d. 1670)source
  • December 14 – Georg Calixtus, German Lutheran theologian who looked to reconcile all Christendom (d. 1656)source

Deaths

  • February 11 – Augustus, Elector of Saxony (b. 1526)source
  • March 25 – Margaret Clitherow, English Roman Catholic nun, saint and martyr (b. 1556)source
  • April 8 – Martin Chemnitz, Lutheran reformer (b. 1522)source
  • May 5 – Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1529)source
  • June 1 – Martín de Azpilcueta, Spanish theologian and economist (b. 1491)source
  • June 28 – Primož Trubar, Carniolan Protestant reformer (b. 1508)source
  • August 1 – Richard Maitland, Scottish statesman and historian (b. 1496)source
  • September 7 – Prince Masahito, member of the Japanese imperial family (b. 1552)source
  • September 20 – Sir Anthony Babington, English Catholic conspirator (executed) (b. 1561)source
  • September 20 – Chidiock Tichborne, English conspirator and poet (executed) (b. 1558)source
  • September 21 – Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, French Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1517)source
  • October 15 – Elizabeth of Denmark, Duchess of Mecklenburg, Danish princess (b. 1524)source
  • October 17 – Philip Sidney, English poet, courtier and soldier (b. 1554)source
  • December 12 – Stefan Batory, King of Poland (b. 1533)source