Events

• Publication of the Bishops' Bible by the Church of England.

New books

• Wawrzyniec Grzyma a Go licki - De optimo senatore
• Petar Hektorovi - Ribanje i ribarsko prigovaranje (Discourse on Fishing and Fishermen)
• Giorgio Vasari - Le Vite delle pi eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori (Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects) (revised edition)

New drama

• Ulpian Fulwell - Like Will to Like

Poetry

• Fran ois d'Amboise - l gie sur le tr pas d'Anne de Montmorency
• See also 1568 in poetry

Births

• January 20 - Daniel Cramer, Lutheran theologian (died 1637)
• February 11 - Honor d'Urf , novelist (died 1625)
• July 7 - Richard Burbage, actor and theatre owner (died 1619)
• September 5 - Tommaso Campanella, philosopher and poet (died 1639)
• date unknown
  • Richard Baker, chronicler (died 1645)
  • Clemens Timpler, philosopher (died 1624)
  • Sir Henry Wotton, diplomat and author (died 1639)

Deaths

• April 7 - Onofrio Panvinio, historian (born 1529)
• September 14 - Jan van Casembroot, Flemish humanist poet (born c.1525) (executed)
• December 23 - Roger Ascham, didactic writer (born c. 1515)
• date unknown
  • Antoine H roet, poet
  • Garcia de Orta, naturalist, medical writer and friend of Lu s de Cam es
  • Dirk Philips, Anabaptist theologian (born 1504)

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