1599 deaths

English poet (c. 1552 – 1599)

French noble and mistress to Henry IV of France

Italian noblewoman and murderer

Italian composer (1553-1599)

Dutch explorer

general of Oda Nobunaga following the Sengoku period

Prince-Bishop of Warmia

Spanish composer of the Renaissance

daimyo

French painter (1521-1599)

Domenico Scandella (1532–1599), known as Menocchio (), was an Italian miller from Montereale Valcellina, Republic of Venice, who was tried for heresy by the Roman Inquisition for his unorthodox religious views and then was burnt at the stake in 1599. The 16th-century life and medieval religious beliefs of Menocchio are known from the records of the Inquisition, and are the subject of The Cheese and the Worms (1976) by Carlo Ginzburg, as well as of the stageplay Menocchio (2002) by Lillian Garrett-Groag and the film Menocchio (Menocchio the Heretic) (2018) by Alberto Fasulo.

Austrian archduchess

Metropolitan of Kiev

count of East Frisia (1532–1599)

Portuguese philosopher

Polish historian

Italian surgeon

Franco-Flemish composer

Mughal rebel

16th century Indian Punjabi poet

German artist (1550-1599)

Ottoman scholar and writer (1536–1599)

Flemish humanist, poet, and artist (1532-1599)

Catholic cardinal

Korean Army General and the Commander-in-chief of the Joseon Dynasty

Hindustani Imperial and Royal

Czech philosopher, historian, humanist, lexicographer, linguist, publisher, professor, translator, writer, university educator and science writer

Grand Marshal of Lithuania (1559-1599)

English politician and author (c.1537–1599)

Italian composer

Flemish painter (1542-1599)

daimyo of the Sengoku period. a.k.a. Dōka

doge of Genoa

Spanish Dominican scholar (1530–1599)

Ottoman pharmacist and physician (15..–1599)

Countess of Hanau-Münzenberg, later Countess of Nassau-Siegen

Korean scholar (1534-1599)

politician

Bhuyan chieftain (1529-1599)

Cambodian king (1596-1599)

Countess of Nassau

Flemish cartographer

German poet and theologian (1532-1599)

Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg from 1590 to 1599

German-Dutch painter, decorator and architect (1540-1599)

Italian humanist

Catholic cardinal

ruling countess of Arenberg (1527-1599)

Dutch admiral (1562-1599)

Mexican historian

Italian artist (1529-1599)

Swiss pastor and lexicographer (1529-1599)

Spanish artist (1545-1599)

Italian historian

King of Vietnam

Irish peer

Italian jurist

daimyo

daimyo

Italian noble