page_title: 1590
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1590 / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: Español: Sixto V con tiara
context_page_description: 1590 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. As of the start of 1590, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar.
context_section_description: January 7 – Jakob Andreae, German theologian (b. 1528)
  January 20 – Giambattista Benedetti, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1530)
  February 1 – Lawrence Humphrey, president of Magdalen College, Oxford (b. 1527)
  February 2 – Catherine of Ricci, Catholic prioress and saint (b. 1522)
  February 4 – Gioseffo Zarlino, Italian music theorist and composer (b. 1517)
  February 12
  François Hotman, French Protestant lawyer and writer (b. 1524)
  Blanche Parry, personal attendant to Elizabeth I of England (b. c. 1508)
  February 18 – Asahi no kata, Japanese lady, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's half-sister (b. 1543)
  February 19 – Philipp IV, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (b. 1514)
  February 21 – Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick, English nobleman and general (b. 1528)
  March 4 – Duchess Hedwig of Württemberg, by marriage countess of Hesse-Marburg (b. 1547)
  April 2 – Elisabeth of Saxony, Countess Palatine of Simmern (b. 1552)
  April 6 – Francis Walsingham, English spymaster (b. 1530)
  May 9 – Charles de Bourbon French cardinal and pretender to the throne (b. 1523)
  June 28 – Hori Hidemasa, Japanese warlord (b. 1553)
  July 10 – Charles II, Archduke of Austria, regent of Inner Austria (b. 1540)
  July 21 – Sophie of Württemberg, German noble (b. 1563)
  August 10
  Hōjō Ujimasa, Japanese warlord (b. 1538)
  Hōjō Ujiteru, Japanese warlord (b. 1540？)
  August 17 – James III, Margrave of Baden-Hachberg (b. 1562)
  August 27 – Pope Sixtus V (b. 1521)
  September 10 – Archduchess Magdalena of Austria, Member of the House of Habsburg (b. 1532)
  September 13 – Pedro Téllez-Girón, 1st Duke of Osuna, Spanish duke (b. 1537)
  September 20 – Lodovico Agostini, Italian composer (b. 1534)
  September 27 – Pope Urban VII (b. 1521)
  October 4 – Jacques Cujas, French legal expert (b. 1520)
  October 12 – Kanō Eitoku, Japanese painter (b. 1543)
  October 16 – Archduchess Anna of Austria, Duchess of Bavaria (b. 1528)
  October 18 – Philip, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (b. 1570)
  October 23 – Bernardino de Sahagún, Franciscan missionary (b. 1499)
  October  29 – Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert, Dutch politician and theologian (b. 1522)
  November 18 – George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, English statesman (b. 1528)
  November 19 – Girolamo Zanchi, Italian theologian (b. 1516)
  November 29 – Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (b. 1547)
  December 20 – Ambroise Paré, French surgeon (b. 1510)
  December 27 – Emanuel Philibert de Lalaing, Belgian noble and army commander (b. 1557)
  date unknown
  Nicholas Bobadilla, one of the first Spanish Jesuits (b. 1511)
  Marietta Robusti, Venetian Renaissance painter (b. 1555 or 1560)
  Roger Dudley, British soldier (b. 1535)
  Sorley Boy MacDonnell, Irish chieftain (b. 1505)
  Juan Bautista de Pomar, Spanish colonial historian and writer
  Catherine Salvaresso, Wallachian regent
  Maddalena Casulana, Italian composer, lutenist and singer (d. 1590)
  probable – Bernard Palissy, French potter (b. 1510)
caption: Pope Sixtus V
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