1578 deaths

King of Portugal from 1557 to 1578

Ottoman princess, daughter of Suleiman the Magnificent and Hürrem Sultan

Spanish military leader (1547–1578)

queen consort and regent of Portugal

Japanese daimyo

Italian painter (1525-1578)

Austrian Archduchess, mother of Maria de' Medici (1547-1578)

1st Duke of Orkney and third and final husband of Mary, Queen of Scots

Portuguese mathematician (1502–1578)

Doge of Venice

French architect (1515-1578)

Illuminator, miniaturist, and painter, (1498-1578)

Ottoman admiral (15..–1578)

Dutch artist (c. 1533–1578)

Moroccan Saadi Dynasty ruler from 1576 to 1578

Spanish prince

Daughter of Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus, and Margaret Tudor, Queen Dowager of Scotland

Saadi Dynasty ruler from 1574 to 1576

English noblewoman (1545?–1578)

Catholic cardinal

Catholic cardinal

French Royal

Spanish conquistador

Safavid princess (1548–1578)

Austrian archduke

16th-century Ottoman Greek magnate

Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach

French architect and sculptor (1515–1578)

Catholic cardinal

Italian painter (1526-1578)

Japanese Takeda retainer

Italian-Jewish physician and scholar (c.1511-1578)

Roman Catholic cardinal (1511-1578)

Hetman of Ukraine

Sultan of Brunei

Dutch astronomer and astrologer

Dutch pirate

Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg (1539-1578)

French diplomat

Italian printer

Spanish poet

King of the Vijayanagara Empire

Spanish missionary (1533-1578)

English noblewoman and translator (1537–1578)

queen; Korean royal consort

politician

Marchese di Massa, son of Alfonso I d'Este and Lucrezia Borgia

German hagiographer

Spanish theologian

samurai

English explorer

Chinese politician and scholar of Ming period (1513–1578)

Dutch noble

daimyo

English biographer of his father-in-law, Sir Thomas More

daimyo

French writer

Dutch noble

Iranian calligrapher

Governor of the Duchy of Milan (1520-1578)