page_title: 1596
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1596 / Deaths
context_page_description: 1596 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. As of the start of 1596, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar.
context_section_description: January 27 – Sir Francis Drake, English explorer, sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, pirate and politician (b. 1540)
  February 7 – George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1547)
  February 17 – Friedrich Sylburg, German classical scholar (b. 1536)
  February 19 – Blaise de Vigenère, French cryptographer, diplomat, scientist, and author (b. 1523)
  March 23 – Henry Unton, English diplomat (b. 1557)
  March 27 – Frederick IV of Liegnitz, German noble (b. 1552)
  April 4 – Philip II, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen (b. 1533)
  May – Janet Fockart, Scottish merchant and moneylender
  May 5 – Catherine de Montpensier, politically active French duchess (b. 1552)
  May 6 – Giaches de Wert, Flemish composer (b. 1535)
  May 31 – John Lesley, Scottish bishop (b. 1527)
  June 10 – John Louis I, Count of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein, Germany noble (b. 1567)
  July 10 – Alessandro Alberti, Italian painter (b. 1551)
  July 23 – Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon (b. 1526)
  August 11 – Hamnet Shakespeare, son of William Shakespeare (b. 1585)
  September 9 – Anna Jagiellon, queen of Poland (b. 1523)
  September 14 – Francisco de Toledo, Spanish Catholic cardinal (b. 1532)
  September 15 – Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (b. 1535)
  October 3 – Florent Chrestien, French writer (b. 1541)
  October 26 – István Esterházy, Hungarian noble (b. 1572)
  November 1 – Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (b. 1539)
  November 10 – Peter Wentworth, English Puritan politician (b. 1530)
  November 29
  William Gibson (martyr), English Catholic martyr
  Venerable William Knight, English Catholic martyr (b. 1572)
  December 27 – Pietro Pontio, Italian music theorist and composer (b. 1532)
  date unknown
  Jean Bodin, French jurist (born 1530)
  Anna Wecker, German writer
  Hattori Hanzō, Japanese ninja under Tokugawa Ieyasu (b. 1541)
  probable – Henry Willobie, English poet (b. 1575)
caption: Sir Francis Drake
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