Deaths
- January 28 - Enrique Henríquez, Jesuit theologian (born 1536)
- February 16 – Nicolas Rapin, translator, poet and satirist (born 1535)
- February 26
- Thomas Craig, poet (born c.1538)
- John Still, bishop, formerly credited with authorship of Gammer Gurton's Needle (born c.1543)
- April 19 – Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, statesman and poet (born 1536)
- June 19
- Alberico Gentili, legal writer (born 1552)
- Johann Pistorius (the younger), German controversialist and historian (born 1546)
- July 26 – Pablo de Céspedes, poet and artist (born 1538)
- September - Mary Arden, mother of Shakespeare (born c.1540)
- October 19
- Martin Delrio, theologian (born 1551)
- Geoffrey Fenton, writer and politician (born c.1539)
- date unknown
- George Bannatyne, collector of Scottish poems (born 1545)
- Nicolas de Montreux, novelist, poet and dramatist (born c.1561)
- Laurence Tomson, Calvinist theologian (born 1539)
- probable
- Thomas East, English printer (born c.1540)
- Jean Vauquelin de la Fresnaye, poet (born 1536)
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