1579 deaths

Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (1505–1579)

English merchant and financier (c. 1519 – 1579)

Duke of Bavaria

founder of Bogotá

Spanish Bishop of Yucatán (1524-1579)

German conquistador

Catholic cardinal (1504-1579)

Ottoman Jewish statesman and financier

(c.1510–1579) Hungarian noble

Italian writer and philosopher, titular archbishop of Patrae

Spanish artist (1526-1579)

Spanish painter (1510-1579)

Portuguese missionary

wife of Safavid shah Mohammad Khodabanda (died 1579)

Marshal of France (1530-1579)

Hungarian noble, politician (1520-1579)

Governor General of Brazil

Mexican Mesoamerican linguist

Spanish composer

English politician (1510-1579)

Chinese general

Catholic cardinal

[松平信康] son of Tokugawa Ieyasu

German civil servant (1517–1579)

Italian painter (1510-1579)

Duke of Cieszyn

German explorer, Landsknecht, conquistador, chronicler and councilman

French noble (1549-1579)

Japanese samurai

Polish-Lithuanian noble (1537-1579)

Swedish bishop

Italian historian

King of Kartli

astronomer, astrologer, mathematician

samurai of the Sengoku period; son of Hōjō Ujiyasu, adopted by Uesugi Kenshin.

daimyō of feudal Japan

Indonesian queen

politician

Wife of John VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg (1537-1579)

57th Doge of Genoa

Swiss printer in Basel (1508-1579), active 1528-1579

son of Devlet I Giray

Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal

English Bible translator and Marian exile

Marshal of France

Countess consort of Hanau-Münzenberg (1532-1579)

Dutch noble

French noblewoman

king of Lan Xang

Bishop of Lutsk and Vilnius, Counter-Reformation activist, founder of Vilnius University

French bishop

Eastern Orthodox saint

head of Japanese clan

Scottish nobleman and courtier

Japanese noble

spanish-Mexican prelate

(1579-1579)

1579

Japanese daimyō of the Sengoku period

sultan