page_title: 1574
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1574 / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: Depicted person&#58; &#32;Charles IX of France
context_page_description: Year 1574 was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.
context_section_description: January 26 – Martin Helwig, German cartographer of Silesia (b. 1516)
  January 30 – Damião de Góis, Portuguese philosopher (b. 1502)
  March 4 – Anna II, Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg, German noblewoman, reigning from 1516 until her death (b. 1504)
  April 14 – Louis of Nassau, Dutch general (b. 1538)
  April 17 – Joachim Camerarius, German classical scholar (b. 1500)
  April 21 – Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1519)
  April 30 – Joseph Boniface de La Molle, Provençale lover of Marguerite de Valois (b. 1530)
  May 14 – Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (b. 1479)
  May 3 – Giovanni Ricci, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1498)
  May 30 – King Charles IX of France (b. 1550)
  June 12 – Renée of France, French princess (b. 1510)
  June 14 – John III the Terrible, Voivoide of Moldavia (b. 1521)
  June 26 – Gabriel, comte de Montgomery, captain of the Scottish Guard of Henry II of France (b. 1530)
  June 27 – Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect (b. 1511)
  July 26 – Birgitte Gøye, Danish county administrator, lady in waiting, landholder and educator  (b. 1511)
  August 23 – Ebussuud Efendi, Ottoman Grand Mufti (b. 1490)
  August 27 – Bartolomeo Eustachi, Italian anatomist
  September 1 – Louis, Count of Stolberg, German noble (b. 1505)
  September 4 – Charles de Mornay, Swedish (originally French) court official, diplomat and royal favorite (b. 1514)
  September 15 – Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry (b. 1523)
  September 17 – Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Spanish admiral and explorer (b. 1519)
  September 26 – Elisabeth of Anhalt-Zerbst, Abbess of Gernrode and Frose, Countess of Barby-Mühlingen (b. 1545)
  September 28 – Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, Italian condottiero (b. 1514)
  October 1 – Maarten van Heemskerck, Dutch painter (b. 1498)
  November 23 – John III, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken, German noble (b. 1511)
  November 28 – Georg Major, German Protestant theologian (b. 1502)
  December 4 – Georg Joachim Rheticus, German mathematician and cartographer (b. 1514)
  December 12 – Selim II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1524)
  December 26 – Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine (b. 1524)
  date unknown
  Hans Eworth, Flemish painter (b. 1520)
  Martin de Goiti, Spanish conquistador
caption: Charles IX of France
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