Events

• August 21 - Completion of the Peresopnytsia Gospels.

New books

• Gabriele Fallopius - Observationes anatomicae
• Sir Thomas Hoby - The Book of the Courtier (Il Cortegiano) (translation)
• Julius Caesar Scaliger -Poetices
• John Calvin - Institution of the Christian Religion (English translation by Thomas Norton)

New drama

• Thomas Preston - Cambises

Poetry

• See 1561 in poetry

Births

• January 22 - Sir Francis Bacon, philosopher, scientist, and statesman (died 1626)
• June - Samuel Harsnett, writer on religion (died 1631)
• July 11 - Lu s de G ngora y Argote, Spanish poet (died 1627)
• August 14 - Sir Christopher Heydon, writer on astrology (died 1623)
• October 27 - Mary Sidney, writer and translator (died 1621)
• date unknown
  • John Harington, English writer (died 1612)

Deaths

• February 26 - Jorge de Montemayor, novelist and poet (born c. 1520)
• March 25 - Conrad Lycosthenes, humanist and encyclopedist (born 1518)
• December 10 - Caspar Schwenckfeld, theologian and preacher (born c. 1490)
• date unknown
  • Marie Denti re, theologian (born 1495)
  • Claude Garamond, French publisher (born 1480)
  • Jane Seymour, writer

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