page_title: 1584
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1584 / Deaths
context_page_description: 1584 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. As of the start of 1584, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar.
context_section_description: January 4 – Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter and drawer (b. 1539)
  January 11 – Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Spanish constiquador (b. 1496)
  January 15 – Martha Leijonhufvud, politically active Swedish noble (b. 1520)
  February 18 – Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian writer (b. 1503)
  February 19 – Anna de' Medici, Tuscan princess (b. 1569)
  March 10 – Thomas Norton, English politician and writer (b. 1532)
  March 18 – Tsar Ivan IV of Russia (b. 1530)
  May 10 – Luigi Cornaro, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1517)
  March 12 – Kasper Franck, German theologian (b. 1543)
  May 18 – Ikeda Tsuneoki, Japanese daimyō and military commander (in battle) (b. 1536)
  May 25 – Prospero Spani, Italian sculptor (b. 1516)
  June 10 – François, Duke of Anjou (b. 1555)
  June 13 – János Zsámboky, Hungarian scholar (b. 1531)
  July – Francis Throckmorton, conspirator against Queen Elizabeth I of England (b. 1554)
  July 10 – William I of Orange (assassinated) (b. 1533)
  July 12 – Steven Borough, English explorer (b. 1525)
  July 14 – Balthasar Gérard, French assassin of William I of Orange (b. 1557)
  July 23 – John Day, English Protestant printer (b. 1522)
  August 22 – Jan Kochanowski, Polish writer (b. 1530)
  October – Colin Campbell, 6th Earl of Argyll, Scottish nobleman and politician (b. 1541)
  November 3 – Charles Borromeo, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and saint (b. 1538)
  November 17 – Eric II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1528)
  December 26 – Giovanni Francesco Commendone, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1523)
  date unknown
  Jan Borukowski, royal secretary of Poland (b. 1524)
  Yi I of Joseon, Korean Confucian scholar (b. 1536)
  Elena Anguissola, Italian painter and nun (b. c. 1532)
  Mikołaj "the Red" Radziwiłł, Polish magnate (b. 1512)
  Carolus Sigonius, Italian humanist (b. 1524)
  Francisco de Toledo, Count of Oropesa, viceroy of Peru (b. 1515)
  Michal Wisniowiecki, prince at Wiśniowiec (b. 1529)
  probable – James Balfour of Pittendreich, Scottish judge and politician
caption: Saint Charles Borromeo
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