1585 deaths

pope of the Catholic Church from 1572 to 1585 (1502–1585)

French poet (1524-1585)

Russian cossack explorer and pirate

English composer

Italian composer (1533–1585)

Ottoman Syrian polymath (1526-1585)

Flemish physician and botanist (1517–1585)

Electress consort of Saxony

Ottoman princess, daughter of Selim II

Italian painter (1527-1585)

diplomat (1491-1585)

French noble (1520-1585)

Ottoman governor (1526-1585)

French philosopher

Portuguese artist (1517-1584)

Spanish biblical scholar and early Jesuit

2nd Duke of Nemours

daimyo (1535-1585)

Italian noble (1557-1585)

Mughal Empire prince

Italian writer

English politician

Catholic cardinal

Vietnamese poet

(1541-1585) Italian noble

Italian cardinal

writer

daimyo (1513-1585)

German artist (1508-1585)

Italian clockmaker

king of Imereti in western Georgia

Iranian Shia Grand Ayatollah (c. 1500–1585)

Catholic cardinal

German humanist and translator

French cardinal

metropolitan bishop

Daimyo of the Date clan of Mutsu Province

Cardinal Priest (1543-1585)

Dutch stadtholder (1527-1585)

Spanish composer

16th-century Occitan poet

English politician and Earl (1532-1585)

Belgian theologian

Irish Earl

Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal

Ragusan poet

Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (1538-1585)

Prince-Archbishop of Bremen, Prince-Bishop of Osnabruck and Paderborn

Daimyo of the Sengoku period

Silesian physician (1519-1585)

Ottoman general and statesman of Bosniak origin (d. 1585)

French diplomat

Spanish explorer

Daimyo who was the head of the Ito clan

Ottoman rabbi

Polish bishop (1527-1585)

Ming Dynasty pediatrician

Transylvanian Saxon poet

Italian theologian

German explorer