Famous Deaths for Year 1578

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Deaths 1 - 13 of 13

Feb 5th - Giovanni B Moroni, Italian portrait painter, dies
Mar 7th - Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (b. 1515)
Mar 29th - Arthur Champernowne, English admiral (b. 1524)
Mar 29th - Louis I, Cardinal of Guise, French cardinal (b. 1527)
Mar 31st - Juan de Escobedo, sec of Spanish land guardian Don Juan, murdered
Apr 14th - James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, consort of Mary I of Scotland
Apr 19th - Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1530)
Jul 4th - Charles de Berlaymont, baron of Hierges, gov/viceroy of Names, dies
Aug 4th - Sebastiaan, King of Portugal (1557-78), dies in battle at about 24
Aug 4th - Thomas Stucley, English adventurer
Aug 11th - Pedro Nunes, [Nonius], Port mathematician/astronomer (nonius), dies
Oct 1st - Don John of Austria, Spanish military leader, dies at 31
Nov 8th - Johann Walter, composer, dies at 51


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