Nekrolog 1591

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This is a list of famous people who died in 1591 . 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
January 7th	Jacobus de Kerle	Franco-Flemish composer
13th January	Antonio Carafa	Cardinal of the Catholic Church	52
January 16	Giovanni Battista di Quadro	Italian-born Polish architect of the Renaissance
January 25th	Alexius Payos	Italian master stonemason of the Renaissance
January 28th	Marquard II from the mountain	Bishop of Augsburg

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
February 6th	Anna Sophia of Prussia	Duchess of Mecklenburg	63
February 12th	Hieronymus Opitz the Elder	German Lutheran theologian
14th of February	François de Beaucaire de Péguillon	French theologian and historian, Bishop of Metz	76
February 23	Hans Walther von Gemmingen	Owner of Presteneck Castle
February 25	Johann Thomas von Spaur	Bishop of Brixen
27th of February	Vespasiano Gonzaga	Italian nobleman	59

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
March 11	Bernhard von Waldeck	Bishop of Osnabrück (1585–1591)
17. March	Cordt Wolters	Councilor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck and sub-admiral of the Lübeck fleet
March 18th	Giovanni Antonio Serbelloni	Italian cardinal bishop and church politician, council legislature and president
March 18th	David Willmann	German Lutheran theologian
26th of March	William Daman	English musician and composer
March	Jost Amman	Swiss draftsman, etcher and engraver, form cutter, painter and author
March	Ludwig Eisenberger	Official in the Ortenberg and Wehrheim offices	49

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
9th April	Aemilia of Saxony	Wife of the Margrave of Ansbach, Georg the Pious	74
11 April	Levinus Battus	German medic	45
April 15th	Gian Girolamo Albani	Cardinal of the Catholic Church	87
April 21	Sen no rikyu	Japanese tea master of the Sengoku period
April 22	Georg Hitzler	German philologist and rhetorician as well as university professor	62
April 25	Basil Amerbach	Swiss lawyer and art collector	57
26th of April	Marco Bragadino	Venetian alchemist and impostor
April 28	Ippolito de 'Rossi	Cardinal of the Roman Church	59

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
May 3rd	Antonio Abondio	Italian medalist and wax boss
May 4th	Hugo Donellus	French lawyer, professor of law	63
May 15	Dmitri Ivanovich	Russian tsarevich, last rurikid	8th

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
June 21st	Aloisius of Gonzaga	Italian Jesuit and saint	23

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
July 1	William Douglas, 9th Earl of Angus	Scottish nobleman
2nd July	George Beesley	English priest, martyr and blessed
2nd July	Vincenzo Galilei	Italian lutenist, musicologist and composer
10th of July	Anna of Hesse	Countess Palatine of Zweibrücken	61
17th July	Simon Pauli	German Lutheran theologian	56
July 18th	Jacobus Gallus	Renaissance composer	40
22nd of July	Anastasius Demler	German lawyer	70
30th July	Andreas Pevernage	Franco-Flemish composer and conductor

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
4th of August	François de La Noue	French Huguenot leader and writer
15th of August	Johannes Posselius	German teacher and professor for Greek language and literature
18th of August	Bernardino Campi	Italian painter
18th of August	Georg Seiblin	Lawyer, Chancellor and diplomat of the Worms Monastery	61
20th of August	Francesco Terzio	Italian painter and engraver
August 23	Luis de León	Spanish poet, humanist and translator
26th of August	Cornelius Freundt	German composer and cantor

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
September 3	Francisco Avellaneda	Italian Roman Catholic clergyman
7th of September	Heinrich Sudermann	Lawyer and first syndic of the Hanseatic League	71
September 10	Richard Grenville	English explorer, sailor and soldier	49
12th September	Kaspar Bienemann	German theologian and poet	51
16th September	Peder Aagesen	Danish philologist
16th September	Heinrich Weyer	Physician and personal physician to two electors in Trier
September 19th	Alfonso of Orozco	Spanish Augustinian, priest and saint of the Catholic Church	90
September 23rd	Fabian von Schoenaich	officer	83
25th of September	Christian I.	Elector of Saxony	30th
September 29th	Daniel Greser	Lutheran theologian	86
September 29th	Johann II.	Count of East Frisia (1561–1591)	53

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
October 3	Vincenzo Campi	Italian painter
October 6th	Leonhard Rosen	German Cistercian abbot	59
15th October	Otto Heinrich of Braunschweig-Harburg	Hereditary Prince of Braunschweig-Lüneburg-Harburg	36
October, 16th	Gregory XIV.	Pope (1590–1591)	56
October 21	Ernst von Mengersdorf	Bishop of Bamberg
October	Franciscus Omichius	German pedagogue, rector and writer

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
November 6th	Martino Longhi the Elder	Italian architect
November 13th	Jacob Bacmeister	German Hebraist and Lutheran theologian	29
November 18	Benedikt Schlicker	German merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
30th of November	Johan Gregor van der Schardt	Late Renaissance sculptor

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2. December	Esrom Rüdinger	German philologist, pedagogue, physicist and historian	68
3rd of December	Matthew Vogel	German Protestant theologian	72
December 14th	John of the Cross	Spanish poet, mystic and doctor of the church	49
December 17th	Elisabeth von Doberschütz	German nobles, executed as witches
23rd of December	Giovanni Vincenzo Gonzaga	Italian cardinal	51
December 29th	Hans von Gemmingen	Commander of the Teutonic Order in Münnerstadt
30th of December	Innocent IX.	Pope	72
December 31	Erhard Liechti	Swiss watchmaker

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
	Eberhard Bidembach the Younger	German Lutheran theologian
	Jakob Bidembach	German Lutheran theologian
	Crispin van den Broeck	Flemish painter, engraver and architect
	Joan Brudieu	Catalan composer and church musician
	Matthias Budde	Pomeranian nobleman, Danish diplomat, governor on Ösel
	Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva	Founder and Governor of Nuevo León
	François de Coligny	French nobleman, commander and Huguenot leader
	Jakob Dammann	German Lutheran clergyman, reformer of the county of Schaumburg
	Johann Fischart	German writer
	Veronica Franco	Italian poet and courtesan
	Gaspar Gil Polo	Spanish poet and singer
	Hans Hase	Dresden councilor and mayor
	Isaak Hassler	German, Evangelical-Lutheran church organist
	Thomas Mitis	Poet, teacher and publisher
	Joseph ben Mordechai Gershon	Polish Talmudist
	Kara Üveys Pasha	Ottoman dignitary
	Andreas waiter	German book printer
	Gerhard Kleinsorgen	electoral official and historian
	Muhammad Urfi	Indian poet
	Francesco Paciotto	Italian architect
	Gregor Pauli	Unitarian writer and theologian
	Metke Poleuer	German woman who was executed on charges of witchcraft
	Sebastian Preissler	German entrepreneur
	Neveling from the bar	Land Commander of Westphalia
	Antonio Ribeiro Chiado	Portuguese playwright and poet of the Renaissance
	Georg Schomann	Unitarian theologian
	Bruno Seidel	German physician, proverb collector and neo-Latin poet
	John Stubbs	English politician
	Mordecai Zemach	Prague printer