Nekrolog 1579
This is a list of famous people who died in 1579 . The entries are made alphabetically within the individual data. Animals can be found in the necrology for animals .
January
Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
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January 8th | Arnold von Siegen | Councilor and Mayor of Cologne in the early modern period | ||
January 9th | Hans Franz Nägeli | Bernese statesman and general, conqueror of Vaud | ||
January 17th | Johann Hake | Chancellor of the Counts of Hoya in Nienburg / Weser |
February
Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
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February 1st | Benedict Stokar | French councilor of Swiss origin | 62 | |
February 5th | Helena of Pfalz-Simmern | Countess of Hanau-Munzenberg | 46 | |
February 10th | Nicholas Bacon | English attorney, judge and keeper of the Lord Seal of England | ||
February 12th | Laurentius Petri Gothus | Swedish Archbishop of the Reformation | ||
14th of February | Mattheus Tidemann | Councilor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck | ||
February 16 | Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada | Spanish conquistador and lawyer | ||
27th of February | Johann Engelstede | German lawyer and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck |
March
Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
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26th of March | Christoph von Lamberg | Bishop of Seckau | ||
28th March | Juan Fernández de Navarrete | Spanish painter |
April
Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
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April 24th | Volkwin Weigel | German mathematician, Hessian personal physician | ||
April 25 | John Stewart, 4th Earl of Atholl | Scottish nobleman |
May
Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
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May 6th | François de Montmorency | Governor of Paris and Marshal of France | 48 | |
May 24th | Paul Crell | German Lutheran theologian | ||
May 24th | Christoph Tode | German politician, Mayor of Lübeck | 64 |
June
Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
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June 10th | William Whittingham | English reformer and Calvinist theologian | ||
June 16 | Johannes Hartung | German Graecist and Hebrew | 74 | |
17th of June | Johannes Stadius | Flemish astronomer, astrologer and mathematician | ||
18th of June | Gilles de Berlaymont | Dutch military and politician | ||
June 22 | David Kölderer from Burgstall | Bishop of Regensburg | ||
June 28th | Johann von Schaesberg | Nobleman | ||
June 28th | Heinrich Schweickher | Swabian cartographer |
July
Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
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July 23 | Valentin von Eickstedt | Pomeranian statesman | ||
24th July | Benedetto Lomellini | Cardinal of the Catholic Church |
August
Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
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August 2nd | Joseph Nasi | Diplomat, banker and financial expert at the court of the Ottoman sultans Suleyman I and Selim II. | ||
August 2nd | Zacharias Orth | German classical philologist, pedagogue and neo-Latin poet of German humanism | ||
5th of August | Stanislaus Hosius | German-Polish theologian | 75 | |
August 11th | Caspar Vischer | German architect | ||
August 30th | Hans Caudir | Commander of the Order of St. John and imperial interpreter for Turkish, Arabic and Persian |
October
Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
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9th October | Johann III. from Blankenfelde | German politician, Mayor of Berlin | ||
October 11th | Sokollu Mehmed Pasha | Ottoman Grand Vizier | ||
the 20th of October | Francis Joel | Hungarian pharmacologist and physician | 71 | |
October 24th | Albrecht V. | Duke of Bavaria | 51 | |
October 24th | Andreas I. Imhoff | German merchant as well as foremost slogan and imperial school of the imperial city of Nuremberg | 87 |
November
Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
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November 4th | Wenceslaus III | Duke of Teschen (1528–1579) | 54 | |
November 9th | Philip VI | Count of Waldeck zu Landau | 28 | |
November 13th | Wilhelm von Löwenstein | Nobleman, bailiff and bailiff in the Speyer Monastery | ||
15th of November | Franz Davidis | Unitarian theologian | ||
21st November | Thomas Gresham | Founder of the London Stock Exchange |
December
Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
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10th of December | Paul Hector Mair | Clerk, city treasurer and steward of the city of Augsburg | ||
13th December | Georg Celestine | German Lutheran theologian and clergyman | 54 | |
21st December | Vicente Juan Masip | Spanish painter |
Date unknown
Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
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Pedro de Ávila y Zúñiga | Spanish diplomat, Ambassador of Spain to the United Kingdom | |||
Louis de Clermont, seigneur de Bussy d'Amboise | French nobleman | |||
Antonio Guarás | Spanish envoy to England | |||
Hieronymus Haubold | German educator and Lutheran theologian | |||
Hey Xinyin | Chinese representative of the Taizhou School of Neo-Confucianism | |||
Diego de Landa | Spanish bishop of Yucatán | |||
Ferdinand de Lannoy | Governor of Holland in the Spanish Netherlands | |||
Dorothea Merck | Victims of the witch hunt in Waldshut | |||
Arcangelo Salimbeni | Italian painter | |||
Ulrich Schmidl | German mercenary, patrician, explorer, chronicler and councilor | |||
Surkhar Lodro Gyelpo | Tibetan medic | |||
Franz Trac | Siegburg art potters | |||
Voravongse I. | King of Lan Chang |