page_title: 1576
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1576 / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Shāh Tahmāsp I (1513-1576).
context_page_description: Year 1576 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.
context_section_description: January 19 – Hans Sachs, German Meistersinger (b. 1494)
  January 27 – Mizuno Nobumoto, Japanese shōgun
  February 10 – Wilhelm/Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar (b. 1532)
  February 12 – John Albert I, Duke of Mecklenburg (b. 1525)
  March 5 – Luis de Requesens y Zúñiga, Spanish governor of the Netherlands (b. 1528)
  March 18 – Johann Stössel, German theologian (b. 1524)
  May 14 – Tahmasp I, Shah of Persia (b. 1514)
  May 30 – Harada Naomasa, Japanese samurai
  June 30 – Franciscus Sonnius, Dutch counter-Reformation theologian (b. 1506)
  July 2 – Josias Simler, Swiss scholar (b. 1530)
  July 11 – Eleonora di Garzia di Toledo, Italian noble (d. 1553)
  July 16 – Isabella de' Medici, Italian noble (d. 1542)
  August 15 or August 22 – Bálint Bakfark, Hungarian composer and lutenist (b. 1507)
  August 27 – Titian, Italian painter (b. c. 1489)
  September 21 – Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician, physician, astrologer and gambler (b. 1502)
  September 22 – Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex (b. 1541)
  October 12 – Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1527)
  October 14 – Konrad Heresbach, German Calvinist (b. 1496)
  October 26 – Frederick III, Elector Palatine, ruler from the house of Wittelsbach (b. 1515)
  November 4 – John Paulet, 2nd Marquess of Winchester (b. c. 1510)
  November 9 – Chamaraja Wodeyar IV, King of Mysore (b. 1507)
  date unknown
  Paula Vicente, Portuguese artist, musician and writer (b. 1519)
  probable
  Anthony More, Dutch portrait painter (b. 1512)
  Nicola Vicentino, Italian music theorist and composer (b. 1511)
caption: Tahmasp I
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