1580s deaths

Chinese writer

Spanish priest and chess player

Rāmtanu Panday ( – 26 April 1589), popularly referred to as Mian Tānsen (), or Sangeet Samrāt (), was a Hindustani classical musician. Born into a Hindu Gaur Brahmin family in Gwalior, he learnt and perfected his art in the northwest region of modern Madhya Pradesh. He got his first break as musician and composer in the court of Raja Man Singh Tomar of Gwalior and spent most of his adult life in the court and patronage of the Hindu king of Rewa, Raja Ramchandra Singh Baghel (r. 1555–1592), where Tānsen's musical abilities and studies gained widespread fame. This reputation brought him to

English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs (1497-1580)

English chronicler

French potter and engineer

Danish/German artist (1527-1583)

Polish poet

Italian/French composer and musician

Indian poet

Italian noble

Portuguese cartographer (1520–1580)

Italian Mannerist painter (1521–1575)

Italian apothecary

Spanish explorer

Polish Renaissance composer

Poet, writer

Flemish painter and draughtsman active in Antwerp

Russian saint

Italian composer

Spanish writer (1530-1588)

Croatian writer

French theologian

Italian painter (1510-1585)

Viceroy of Peru

Danish sculptor (1530-1591)

English admiral

Welsh scholar (1520–1584)

Italian rabbi

Spanish general (1511–1580)

person associated with Hebrew manuscripts

German composer

Dutch sculptor (1505–1580)

German mystic

English composer

Italian composer of madrigals and napolitane

French painter

Scottish poet 1525?-1584?

Dutch merchant and explorer

Greek Orthodox rabbi

Italian actor