page_title: 1587
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1587 / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: English: A portrait drawing of an unidentified man, perhaps Sir Ralph Sadler (1507–1587).
context_page_description: 1587 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. As of the start of 1587, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar.
context_section_description: January 31 – Juraj Drašković, Croatian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1525)
  January – Thomas Seckford, English official (b. 1515)
  February 8 – Mary, Queen of Scots (executed) (b. 1542)
  February 9 – Vincenzo Ruffo, Italian composer (b. 1510)
  February 13 – Dorothea of Saxony, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (b. 1563)
  February 22 – Sophie of Brandenburg-Ansbach, princess of Brandenburg-Ansbach (b. 1535)
  February 26 – Magdalene of Lippe, Countess of Lippe by birth, and Landgravine of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1552)
  March 15 – Caspar Olevian, German theologian (b. 1536)
  March 30 – Ralph Sadler, English statesman (b. 1507)
  April 10 – Henry III, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels (b. 1542)
  April 11 – Thomas Bromley, English lord chancellor (b. 1530)
  April 8 – John Foxe, English author (b. 1516)
  April 14 – Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland (b. 1549)
  April 16 – Anne Seymour, Duchess of Somerset (b. c. 1510)
  May 9 – Jakob Schegk, German physician (b. 1511)
  May 17 – Gotthard Kettler, Duke of Courland and Semigallia (b. 1517)
  June 11 – Ōtomo Sōrin, Japanese Christian daimyō (b. 1530)
  June 15 – Frederick II, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (b. 1568)
  June 23 – Ōmura Sumitada, Japanese Christian daimyō (b. 1533)
  July 7 – Joachim of Zollern, Titular Count of Hohenzollern (b. 1554)
  July 28 – Godfried van Mierlo, Dutch Dominican friar and bishop (b. 1518)
  August 14 – Guglielmo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (b. 1538)
  August 29 – Vincenzo Bellavere, Italian composer (b. c. 1540)
  September 3 – Henry Cheyne, 1st Baron Cheyne, English politician and baron (b. 1540)
  September 19 – Jacobus Pamelius, Belgian bishop (b. 1536)
  October 19 – Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1541)
  November 1 – Alfonso d'Este, Lord of Montecchio, Italian nobleman (b. 1527)
  November 10 – Abe Motozane, Japanese warlord (b. 1513)
  December 13 – Hai Rui, Ming Dynasty "model official" (b. 1514)
  December 11 – Andreas Gaill, German jurist and statesman (b. 1526)
  date unknown
  Dudley Fenner, English Puritan divine (b. c. 1558)
  Jan Tarło, Polish nobleman (b. 1527)
  probable – George Whetstone, English writer (b. 1544)
caption: Ralph Sadler
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