page_title: 1594
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1594 / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Sir Martin Frobisher. Courtesy of the collections of the University of Oxford.
context_page_description: 1594 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. As of the start of 1594, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar.
context_section_description: February – Barnabe Googe, English poet (b. 1540)
  February 2 – Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer (b. 1525)
  February 8 – Countess Palatine Elisabeth of Simmern-Sponheim, Duchess of Saxony (b. 1540)
  April 16 – Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby (b. 1559)
  April 29 – Thomas Cooper, English bishop, lexicographer, and writer (b. c. 1517)
  May 15 – Charlotte de La Marck, French duchess (b. 1574)
  May 30 – Bálint Balassi, Hungarian writer and noble (b. 1554)
  May 31
  Tintoretto, Italian painter (b. 1518)
  Francesco Panigarola, Italian bishop (b. 1548)
  June 3 – John Aylmer, English divine (b. 1521)
  June 7 – Rodrigo Lopez, Queen Elizabeth's physician (executed for treason) (b. 1525)
  June 14 – Orlande de Lassus, Flemish composer (b. 1532)
  June 29 – Niels Kaas, Danish chancellor (b. 1535)
  July – Girolamo Mei, Italian historian and humanist (b. 1519)
  July 10 – Paolo Bellasio, Italian composer and organist (b. 1554)
  August 5 – Archduchess Eleanor of Austria (b. 1534)
  October 8 – Ishikawa Goemon, Japanese ninja and thief (b. 1558)
  October 16 – William Allen, English cardinal (b. 1532)
  November 15 – Sir Martin Frobisher,  British explorer (b. 1535)
  November 20 – Gaspar de Quiroga y Vela, General Inquisitor of Spain (b. 1512)
  November 29 – Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque soldier and poet (b. 1533)
  December 2 – Gerardus Mercator, Flemish-German cartographer (b. 1512)
  December 16 – Allison Balfour, alleged Scottish witch
  date unknown
  John Johnson, English lutenist and composer (b. c. 1545)
  Thomas Kyd, author of The Spanish Tragedy (b. 1558)
caption: Martin Frobisher
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