page_title: 1581
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1581 / Deaths
context_page_description: Year 1581 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, and a common year starting on Thursday of the Proleptic Gregorian calendar.
context_section_description: January 22 – Joos de Damhouder, Flemish jurist (b. 1507)
  February 15 – Francisco Foreiro, Portuguese Dominican theologian and biblist (b. 1523)
  March 17 – Johann Marbach, German theologian (b. 1521)
  March 19 – Francis I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (b. 1510)
  April 3 – Herbert Duifhuis, Dutch minister (b. 1531)
  April 25 – Okabe Motonobu, Japanese warrior
  May 31 – Jan Kostka, Polish noble (b. 1529)
  June 2 – James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, regent of Scotland (b. 1525)
  July 20 – Odet de Turnèbe, French dramatist (b. 1552)
  July 11 – Peder Skram, Danish senator and naval officer (b. 1500)
  July 12 – Johannes Gigas, German theologian (b. 1514)
  July 22 – Richard Cox, English bishop (b. 1500)
  August 17 – Duchess Sabine of Württemberg, by marriage Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel (b. 1549)
  August 20 – Katharina of Hanau, Countess of Wied, German noblewoman (b. 1525)
  August – King Mayadunne of Sitawaka (b. 1501)
  September 1 – Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (b. 1534)
  September 16 – Peter Niers, notorious German bandit (date of birth unknown)
  September 28 – Achilles Statius, Portuguese humanist (b. 1524)
  September 29 – Andreas Musculus, German theologian (b. 1514)
  September 30 – Hubert Languet, French diplomat and reformer (b. 1518)
  October 4 – Henry Wriothesley, 2nd Earl of Southampton, English earl (b. 1545)
  October 7 – Honoré I, Lord of Monaco (b. 1522)
  October 9 –  Saint Louis Bertrand, Spanish missionary to Latin America, patron saint of Colombia (b. 1526)
  October 10 – King Bayinnaung of Burma (b. 1516)
  October 23 – Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1529)
  November 4 – Mathurin Romegas, French rival Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. c.1525)
  November 7 – Richard Davies, Welsh bishop and scholar (b. c. 1505)
  November 19 – Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich of Russia (b. 1554)
  December 1
  Martyrs and executed of Tyburn
  Alexander Briant, English Jesuit priest and saint  (b. 1556)
  Edmund Campion, English Jesuit priest and saint  (b. 1540)
  Ralph Sherwin, English Roman Catholic priest and saint (b. 1550)
  December 11 – Maria of Austria, Duchess of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, daughter of Emperor Ferdinand I (b. 1531)
  December 21 – Jean de la Cassière, French-born Maltese 51st Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1502)
  date unknown
  Christopher Báthory, prince of Transylvania (b. 1530)
  Guillaume Postel, French linguist (b. 1510)
  Agatha Streicher, German phycisian (b. 1520)
  Nicholas Sanders, English Catholic propagandist (b. 1530)
caption: Saint Louis Bertrand
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