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• January 11 — The first recorded lottery in England begins and continues, nonstop, at the west door of St Paul's Cathedral for almost five months.{{cite thesis |last=PS |first=Ball |date=2018 |title=Gambling in Elizabethan England : perspectives on England's 'Lotterie Generall' of 1567'Äö-69 |url=https://figshare.utas.edu.au/articles/thesis/Gambling_in_Elizabethan_England_perspectives_on_England_s_Lotterie_Generall_of_1567_-69/23237831 |degree=PhD |pages=6,120 |publisher=University of Tasmania |access-date=13 December 2023}} Each share costs ten shillings, and proceeds are used to repair harbours, and for other public works.
• February 26 — Pope Pius V issues a papal bull expelling all Jews from Italian and French territories.{{cite book |last1=Maifreda |first1=Germano |title=A Companion to Late Medieval and Early Modern Milan |date=1 January 2014 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-28412-8 |pages=380–405 |url=https://brill.com/display/book/edcoll/9789004284128/B9789004284128_017.xml |access-date=13 December 2023 |language=en |chapter=15 The Jews: Institutions, Economy, and Society}}
• March 13 – Battle of Jarnac: Royalist troops under Marshal Gaspard de Tavannes surprise and defeat the Huguenots under the Prince of Condé, who is captured and murdered. A substantial proportion of the Huguenot army manages to escape, under Gaspard de Coligny.{{cite book|author1=St James Press|author2=Anthony Levi|author3=Retired Professor of French Anthony Levi|title=Guide to French Literature: Beginnings to 1789|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oqkRAQAAMAAJ|year=1992|publisher=St. James Press|isbn=978-1-55862-159-6|page=725}}

• April 15 – Burmese–Siamese War: In what is now Thailand, Mahinthrathirat reclaims the throne of the Ayutthaya Kingdom upon the death of King Maha Chakkraphat.
• May 6 – England's St. Paul Cathedral lottery ends with the selection of a winner.
• May 8 – King Bayinnaung of Burma puts down the revolt by Setthathirath of Lan Xang (now Laos), and ending Lan Xang's attempt to rescue Thailand's Ayutthaya Kingdom from conquest.Maha Yazawin Vol. 2 2006: 319
• May 31 – Kasim Pasha of the Ottoman Empire begins the Ottoman attempt to conquer Astrakhan with tens of thousands of troops and a plan to build a canal between the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea to send Ottoman ships on the conquest.{{cite journal |last1=Kurat |first1=A. N. |title=The Turkish Expedition to Astrakhan' in 1569 and the Problem of the Don-Volga Canal |journal=The Slavonic and East European Review |date=1961 |volume=40 |issue=94 |pages=7–23 |jstor=4205320 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4205320 |access-date=13 December 2023 |issn=0037-6795}} The attempt to build a canal proves to be unfeasible.
• June 10 – German Protestant troops reinforce Coligny, near Limoges.{{cite book |last1=Malte-Brun |first1=Victor Adolfe |title=La France illustrée: geographie, histoire, administration et statistique |date=1855 |publisher=G. Barba |page=14 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tG_p2ueqIfoC&dq=Protestants+de+Coligny+%2210+juin+1569%22&pg=RA41-PA14 |access-date=13 December 2023 |language=fr}}

• July 1 – The Union of Lublin unites the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania into a single state, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, following votes in the Assemblies of three Lithuanian provinces (Volhynia, Ukraine and Podlasie) in favour of the incorporation.{{cite book |last1=Kubijovyc |first1=Volodymyr |title=Encyclopedia of Ukraine |date=1984 |publisher=University of Toronto Press |page=167 |url=https://utorontopress.com/9781442651180/encyclopedia-of-ukraine/ |access-date=13 December 2023 |language=en-CA}}
• July 24 – Huguenot forces under Gaspard II de Coligny and 15-year-old Prince Henry of Navarre begin the siege of Poitiers, a Roman Catholic stronghold. The siege fails and the Huguenots depart on September 7.
• August 2 – Burma invades Siam and captures Ayutthaya. Siam becomes a vassal of Burma.
• August 24 – Battle of Orthez: Huguenot forces under Gabriel, comte de Montgomery defeat Royalist forces under General Terride, in French Navarre. Catholics surrender under the condition that their lives will be spared. Huguenots agree, but then massacre the Catholics anyway.{{cite book|first1=Richard Ernest|last1=Dupuy|first2=Trevor Nevitt|last2=Dupuy|title=The Harper Encyclopedia of Military History: From 3500 BC to the Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fikOAQAAMAAJ|year=1993|publisher=HarperCollins|isbn=978-0-06-270056-8|page=522|language=en}}
• September 7 – A Royalist army under the Duc d'Anjou and Marshal Tavannes forces Coligny to abandon the siege of Poitiers.{{cite book |last1=Guizot |first1=François |title=L'histoire de France depuis les temps les plus revules jusqu'en 1789: recontee a mes petits-enfants |date=1874 |publisher=Hachette |page=323 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qagNAQAAMAAJ&dq=Tavannes+Coligny+Henri+III+%227+septembre+1569%22&pg=PA323 |access-date=13 December 2023 |language=fr}}
• September 17 – Pope Pius V issues the papal bull Consueverunt Romani Pontifices setting specific elements for the devotion of the Rosary.[http://campus.udayton.edu/mary//resources/documents/popescoun3.html"Teachings of the Popes and Councils on the Blessed Virgin Mary", University of Dayton] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111012031018/http://campus.udayton.edu/mary/ |date=October 12, 2011 }}
• September 26 – Kasim Pasha ends his attempt to conquer Astrakhan after realizing that his troops have only one month's supply of food left.
• September 28 – The first complete printed Bible in a Spanish translation (La Biblia), made by Casiodoro de Reina, is published in Basel.{{cite book|first1=James Dixon|last1=Douglas|first2=Merrill Chapin|last2=Tenney|year=1997|title=Diccionario Bíblico Mundo Hispano|publisher=Editorial Mundo Hispano|page=145}}{{cite web|url=http://www.biblestudytools.com/sev/#13597726648632&0%7c%7cnlst|title=Sagradas Escrituras (1569) Bible, SEV|access-date=2013-07-08|website=biblestudytools.com}}
• September 29 – Maha Thammarachathirat is installed by the Burmese Army as the vassal king of Ayutthaya.

• October 3 – Battle of Moncontour: The Royalist forces of Gaspard de Saulx Tavannes and the Duc d'Anjou defeat Gaspard II de Coligny's Huguenots, killing 8,000 and taking 3,000 prisoner.
• November 9 – The Rising of the North begins in England as the Earl of Westmorland and the Earl of Northumberland, both Catholic nobles, set off from Brancepeth Castle in County Durham{{cite book |last1=Marshall |first1=Peter |title=Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation |date=1 January 2017 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-17062-7 |page=487 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M7S_DgAAQBAJ&dq=Rising+of+the+North+Thomas+Percy+Brancepeth+Castle+%229+november+1569%22&pg=PA487 |access-date=16 December 2023 |language=en}} with 700 men, in hopes of overthrowing Queen Elizabeth I of England, and placing the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots, on the English throne.
• November 11 — Danish General Daniel Rantzau arrives at the Swedish held Varberg castle at Halland and orders his artillery to shell the castle with cannon fire. The Swedish defenders fire back with their own artillery and Rantzau's head is taken off by a cannonball on the first day.
• November 14 — The siege of Varberg Castle by Denmark ends after three days of shelling the Swedish defenders.{{cite book |title=Fornvännen |date=1966 |publisher=Kungl. Vitterhets historie och antikvitets akademien |page=33 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6kEsAQAAIAAJ&q=%2214%20november%201569%22 |access-date=16 December 2023 |language=sv}}
• November 26 — Francisco Álvarez de Toledo becomes the new Spanish Viceroy of Peru, succeeding Lope García de Castro as the governor-general of all Spanish territory in South America.{{cite book |last1=Tapia |first1=Atilio Sivirichi |title=Historia del Perú y de América: virreinto y emancipación : de conformidad con el novisimo plan de estudios |date=1900 |publisher=Imprenta D. Miranda |page=19 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=urzZAAAAMAAJ&dq=Francisco+de+Toledo+peru+Lope+Garc%C3%ADa+de+Castro+%2226+de+noviembre+de+1569%22&pg=PA19 |access-date=16 December 2023 |language=es}}
• December 2 — The Catholic army of the Duc d'Anjou inflicts another defeat on the Huguenots of Coligny, successfully besieging Saint-Jean-d'Angély.R. J. Knecht, The French Wars of Religion 1559-1598 (Longman, 1989) p.42
• December 6 — The Kanbara castle, held by the Hōjō clan in what is now the Shizuoka Prefecture of Japan falls after a siege by Takeda Katsuyori of the Takeda clan. Hōjō Ujinobu, who had 1,000 men defending, commits suicide after the defeat.
• December 13 — An English counterattack against the Northern rebels begins as Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, marches from York with 10,000 men against the rebels' 6,000. The rebels disperse and flee northward back to Scotland, ending the Rising of the North.

• The Mercator projection is first used in Gerardus Mercator's world map, Nova et Aucta Orbis Terrae Descriptio ad Usum Navigantium Emendata.{{cite book|first=Nicholas|last=Crane|title=Mercator: the man who mapped the planet|location=London|publisher=Phoenix|year=2003|isbn=0-7538-1692-X}}
• A conspiracy with the intent to depose John III of Sweden and reinstate the imprisoned Eric XIV of Sweden on the Swedish throne is exposed in Sweden.
• The trade compact of 1536 is renewed, exempting French merchants from Ottoman law, and allowing them to travel, buy and sell throughout the sultan's dominions, and to pay low customs duties on French imports and exports.
• Akbar founds Fatehpur Sikri, to honor the Muslim holy man Shaikh Salim Chisti, who has foretold the birth of Akbar's son and heir, Jahangir.{{cite web |last1=Frail |first1=T. A. |title=The Ancient Architecture of Fatehpur Sikri |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/the-ancient-architecture-of-fatehpur-sikri-37573801/ |website=Smithsonian Magazine |language=en}}

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• January 20 – Heribert Rosweyde, Jesuit hagiographer (d. 1629){{cite book |last1=Machielsen |first1=Jan |title=Angels of Light? Sanctity and the Discernment of Spirits in the Early Modern Period |date=1 January 2013 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-23370-6 |pages=103–141 |url=https://brill.com/display/book/edcoll/9789004233706/B9789004233706-s006.xml |access-date=18 December 2023 |language=en |chapter=Heretical Saints and Textual Discernment: The Polemical Origins of the Acta Sanctorum (1643–1940)}}
• January 22 – Lucio Massari, Italian painter (d. 1633){{cite web |title=Massari, Lucio |url=https://www.oxfordartonline.com/benezit/display/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.001.0001/acref-9780199773787-e-00118288 |website=Benezit Dictionary of Artists |access-date=18 December 2023 |language=en}}
• February 13 – Johann Reinhard I, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (d. 1625){{cite book |title=Der Globusfreund: wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift für Globen- und Instrumentenkunde |date=2007 |publisher=Coronelli-Weltbund der Globusfreunde |page=86 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BbAZAQAAMAAJ&q=Johann+Reinhard+I+13+februar+1569 |access-date=18 December 2023 |language=en}}
• March 28 – Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1622){{cite book |title=Serie cronologica dei vescovi di Parma con alcuni cenni sui principali avvenimenti civili del canonico dottor D. Gio. M. Allodi |date=1856 |publisher=P. Fiaccadori |page=107 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sgIKm0uGxpgC&dq=Ranuccio+I+Farnese+%2228+marzo+1569%22&pg=PA107 |access-date=18 December 2023 |language=it}}
• March 29 – John Suckling, English politician (d. 1627){{cite web |title=SUCKLING, John (1569-1627), of St. Andrew's, Norwich, Norf.; Dorset Court, Fleet Street, London; Barsham, Suff. and Goodfathers, Twickenham, Mdx. {{!}} History of Parliament Online |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/suckling-john-1569-1627 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org |access-date=20 December 2023}}
• April 10 – Countess Emilia of Nassau, German countess (d. 1629){{cite book |last1=Bornewasser |first1=Hans A. |title=Nassau und Oranien: Statthalter und Könige der Niederlande |date=1985 |publisher=Muster-Schmidt |isbn=978-3-7881-1739-9 |page=83 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vo9WAAAAYAAJ&q=Emilia+von+Oranien+%2210+april+1569%22 |access-date=18 December 2023 |language=de}}
• April 15 – Joan Shakespeare, William Shakespeare's sister (d. 1646){{cite book |last1=Honan |first1=Park |title=Shakespeare: A Life |date=29 October 1998 |publisher=Clarendon Press |isbn=978-0-19-811792-6 |page=41 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X2EJ5LS5HcsC&dq=Joan+Shakespeare+%2215+april+1569%22&pg=PA41 |access-date=18 December 2023 |language=en}}
• April 16 – John Davies, English poet and lawyer (d. 1626){{cite book |last1=Pawlisch |first1=Hans S. |title=Sir John Davies and the Conquest of Ireland: A Study in Legal Imperialism |date=18 July 2002 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-52657-9 |page=15 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H_xM1NWm7JwC&dq=John+Davies+%2216+april+1569%22&pg=PA15 |access-date=18 December 2023 |language=en}}
• May 20 – Juan de la Cerda, 6th Duke of Medinaceli, Spanish noble (d. 1607){{cite book |last1=Béthencourt |first1=Francisco Fernández de |title=Historia genealógica y heráldica de la monarquia española: casa real y grandes de España |date=1904 |publisher=Establecimiento Tipográfico de Enrique Teodoro |page=264 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0UheAAAAcAAJ&dq=Juan+de+la+Cerda+%2220+de+mayo+de+1569%22&pg=PA264 |access-date=18 December 2023 |language=es}}
• June 1 – Sophia of Holstein-Gottorp, Regent of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1603–1608) (d. 1634){{cite book |last1=Schattkowsky |first1=Martina |title=Witwenschaft in der frühen Neuzeit: fürstliche und adlige Witwen zwischen Fremd- und Selbstbestimmung |date=2003 |publisher=Leipziger Universitätsverlag |isbn=978-3-936522-79-2 |page=205 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tNMnYauaWfUC&dq=Sophia+von+Schleswig+%2231+mai+1569%22&pg=PA205 |access-date=18 December 2023 |language=de}}
• June 30 – Hedwig of Hesse-Kassel, countess consort of Schaumburg (d. 1644){{cite book |last1=Köttelwesch |first1=Sabine |title=Geliebte, Gemahlinnen und Mätressen: zehn Frauenschicksale aus dem Umfeld des Kasseler Fürstenhofes |date=2004 |publisher=Verein für Hessische Geschichte und Landeskunde e.V. 1834 Kassel, Zweigverein Hofgeismar |page=35 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WSFoAAAAMAAJ&q=%2230%20juni%201569%22 |access-date=18 December 2023 |language=de}}
• July 3 – Thomas Richardson, English politician and judge (d. 1635){{cite ODNB |title=Richardson, Thomas|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/odnb/9780192683120.001.0001/odnb-9780192683120-e-23584|year=2004 |access-date=18 December 2023 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/23584}}
• July 19 – Conrad Vorstius, Dutch theologian (d. 1622){{cite book |last1=Mellby |first1=Carl August |title=Conrad Vorstius: ein Vorkämpfer religiöser Duldung am Anfang des 17. Jahrhunderts |date=1901 |publisher=O. Schmidt |page=32 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_lwUAQAAIAAJ&dq=Conrad+Vorstius+%2219+juli+1569%22&pg=PA32 |access-date=18 December 2023 |language=de}}
• July 30 – Karl I, Prince of Liechtenstein (d. 1627){{cite book |last1=Haupt |first1=Herbert |title=Fürst Karl I. von Liechtenstein: Obersthofmeister Kaiser Rudolfs II. und Vizekönig von Böhmen : Hofstaat und Sammeltätigkeit, Edition der Quellen aus dem liechtensteinischen Hausarchiv |date=1983 |publisher=Böhlau |isbn=978-3-205-06271-4 |page=12 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FbAZAAAAYAAJ&q=Karl+I+%2230+juli+1569%22 |access-date=18 December 2023 |language=de}}
• August 31 – Jahangir, Mughal emperor (d. 1627){{cite book|author=Nagendra Kr Singh|title=Encyclopaedia of Muslim Biography: I-M|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qVtuAAAAMAAJ|year=2001|publisher=A.P.H. Publishing Corporation|isbn=978-81-7648-233-2|page=118|language=en}}
• September – Arthur Lake, English bishop, a translator of the King James Bible (d. 1626){{cite book |last1=Lee |first1=Sidney |title=DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY |date=1892 |publisher=Smith, Elder, & Co |location=London |page=408 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=47fUyQY5pTEC&dq=Arthur+Lake+%22september+1569%22&pg=PA408 |access-date=19 December 2023 |language=en}}
• September 5 – Georg Friedrich of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein-Weikersheim, officer and amateur poet (d. 1645){{cite book |last1=Fischer |first1=Adolf |title=Geschichte des Hauses Hohenlohe|date=1868 |publisher=Blum & Vogel'sche Buchdruckerei |page=188 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BDYGKVNXMpEC&dq=Georg+Friedrich+%225+september+1569%22&pg=PA188 |access-date=19 December 2023 |language=de}}
• September 9 – Joachim Andreas von Schlick, Czech leader (d. 1621){{cite book |last1=Lukášek |first1=Josef |title=Jáchym Ondřej hrabě Šlik |date=1913 |publisher=Nákl. V. Horák |page=4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G3oyAQAAMAAJ&dq=J%C3%A1chym+Ond%C5%99ej+%C5%A0lik+%229.+z%C3%A1%C5%99%C3%AD+1569%22&pg=PA4 |language=cs}}
• September 23 – Tachibana Ginchiyo, female samurai leader of the Tachibana clan in Japan (d. 1602)
• September 24 – Ernst of Schaumburg, Count of Holstein-Pinneberg and Schaumburg (1601–1622) (d. 1622){{cite book |title=Fürst Ernst, Graf von Holstein-Schaumburg, 1569-1622: Archivalienausstellung des Niedersächsischen Staatsarchivs in Bückeburg |date=1969 |publisher=Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht |page=5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kmgTAQAAMAAJ&q=%20%2224%20september%201569%22 |access-date=19 December 2023 |language=de}}
• September 27 – John Percy, English priest (d. 1641){{cite ODNB |title=Percy [alias Fisher], John|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-9499|year=2004 |access-date=18 December 2023 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/9499}}
• October 13 – Claude de Bullion, French Minister of Finance (d. 1640){{cite book |last1=Vergé-Franceschi |first1=Michel |title=Les officiers généraux de la marine royale, 1715-1774: Les parisiens. La cour |date=1990 |publisher=Librairie de l'Inde |isbn=978-2-905455-04-8 |page=2074 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l34sAAAAYAAJ&q=%2213%20octobre%201569%22 |access-date=19 December 2023 |language=fr}}
• October 14 – Giambattista Marino, Italian poet (d. 1625){{cite book |last1=Culcasi |first1=Carlo |title=G. B. Marino (1569-1625) |date=1932 |publisher=G.B. Paravia |page=5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zp8QAQAAIAAJ&q=Giambattista+Marino+%2214+ottobre+1569%22 |access-date=19 December 2023 |language=it}}
• November 5 – Nils Turesson Bielke, Swedish politician (d. 1639){{cite book |title=Communications numismatiques |date=1937 |publisher=Föreningen |page=13 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=feivYpuqe64C&q=Nils+Turesson+Bielke+%225+november+1569%22 |access-date=19 December 2023 |language=sv}}
• November 11 – Martin Ruland the Younger, German alchemist (d. 1611){{cite book |last1=Söhner |first1=Felicitas |title=Vom Lauinger Stadtphysikus zum kaiserlichen Leibarzt: Der Alchimist Martin Ruland der Jüngere |date=2011 |publisher=GRIN Verlag |isbn=978-3-656-03775-0 |page=2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wRBUBFDclJEC&dq=Martin+Ruland+der+J%C3%BCngere+%2211+november+1569%22&pg=PA2 |access-date=19 December 2023 |language=de}}
• November 16 – Paul Sartorius, German composer (d. 1609){{cite web |title=Sartorius [Schneider, Schneickher], Paul |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/display/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000024609 |website=Grove Music Online |access-date=20 December 2023 |language=en}}
• November 18 – Antonio Marcello Barberini, Italian cardinal and the younger brother of Maffeo Barberini (d. 1646){{cite web |title=BARBERINI, Antonio |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/antonio-barberini_res-2ec798e4-87e7-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ |website=Treccani |access-date=20 December 2023 |language=it}}
• November 24 – Francis Ashley, English politician (d. 1635){{cite ODNB |title=Ashley, Sir Francis|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-70459|year=2004 |access-date=20 December 2023 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/70459}}
• December 15 – Muzio Oddi, Italian mathematician (d. 1639){{cite book |last1=Arnold |first1=Corliss Richard |title=Organ Literature: Biographical Catalog |date=1 January 1995 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-1-4616-7025-4 |page=375 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GTEMAAAAQBAJ&dq=Jakob+Hassler+18+december+1569&pg=PA375 |access-date=20 December 2023 |language=en}}
• December 18 – Jakob Hassler, German composer (d. 1622)
• December 22 – Étienne Martellange, French architect (d. 1641){{cite book |title=Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus: nouvelle édition |date=1894 |publisher=Oscar Schepens |page=614 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JI7yPgQI2XMC&dq=%C3%89tienne+Martellange+%2222+decembre+1569%22&pg=PA613 |access-date=20 December 2023 |language=fr}}
• December 31 – Anna de' Medici, Tuscan princess (d. 1584){{cite book |title=Documenti di filologia |date=1972 |publisher=Riccardo Ricciardi |page=121 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G7cDXHuE31MC&q=%2231%20decembre%201569%22 |access-date=20 December 2023 |language=it}}
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• Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, Spanish dramatist (d. 1631){{cite journal |last1=Weiger |first1=John G. |title=Another Look at the Biography of Guillen de Castro |journal=Bulletin of the Comediantes |date=1958 |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=3–5 |doi=10.1353/boc.1958.0004 |s2cid=191576269 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/107/article/401577/summary |access-date=20 December 2023 |issn=1944-0928|url-access=subscription }}
• William Monson, British admiral (d. 1643){{cite book |last1=Southey |first1=Robert |title=The British Admirals: With an Introductory View of the Naval History of England |date=1840 |publisher=Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman |page=66 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y4ovAAAAYAAJ&dq=William+Monson+%221569%22&pg=PA66 |access-date=20 December 2023 |language=en}}
• Frans Pourbus the Younger, Flemish painter (d. 1622){{cite book |last1=Zirpolo |first1=Lilian H. |title=Historical Dictionary of Renaissance Art |date=19 August 2016 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-4422-6467-0 |page=400 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lyvCDAAAQBAJ&dq=Frans+Pourbus+the+Younger+%221569%22&pg=PA400 |access-date=20 December 2023 |language=en}}
• Yodo-dono, Japanese concubine of Toyotomi Hideyoshi (d. 1615){{cite book |last1=Papinot |first1=Edmond |title=Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan: With 300 Illustrations, 18 Appendixes and Several Maps |date=1909 |publisher=Librairie Sansaisha |page=752 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oIxOAQAAMAAJ&dq=Yodo-dono+%221569%22&pg=PA752 |access-date=20 December 2023 |language=en}}

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• January 15 – Catherine Carey lady-in-waiting to Elizabeth I of England (b. 1524){{cite book |last1=Mayhew |first1=Mickey |title=Imprisoning Mary Queen of Scots: The Men Who Kept the Stuart Queen |date=21 September 2022 |publisher=Pen and Sword History |isbn=978-1-3990-1102-0 |page=28 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MWuEEAAAQBAJ&dq=Catherine+Carey+%2215+january+1569%22&pg=PA28 |access-date=20 December 2023 |language=en}}
• January 20 – Myles Coverdale, English Bible translator (b. c. 1488){{cite book|author=James Frederic Mozley|title=Coverdale and His Bibles|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0qXYAAAAMAAJ|year=1953|publisher=Lutterworth Press|page=27|language=en}}
• March 13 – Louis, Prince of Condé, French Protestant general (b. 1530)
• March 17 – Karl Christoph, Duke of Münsterberg (b. 1545){{cite book |last1=Morgenbesser |first1=Michael |title=Michael Morgenbessers Geschichte von Schlesien |date=1892 |publisher=Max |page=188 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YKiYCVQXYU4C&dq=Karl+Christoph+17+marz+1569&pg=PA188 |access-date=20 December 2023 |language=de}}
• April 15 –Maha Chakkraphat, Siamese King of the Ayutthaya Kingdom (b. 1509)
• May 10 – John of Ávila, Spanish mystic and saint (b. 1500){{cite book |last1=Lopez |first1=Anselmo Arenas |title=El beato Juan de Avila, apóstol de las Andalucías, era natural de Molina de Aragón: no de Almodóvar |date=1918 |publisher=Impr. Hijos de F. Vives Mora |page=71 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pX-ri7umjK8C&q=%2210%20de%20mayo%20de%201569%22 |access-date=20 December 2023 |language=es}}
• May 16 – Dirk Willems, Dutch Anabaptist martyr{{cite book |last1=Ceuninck |first1=Aloysius de |title=Historische tafereelen uit de XVIe eeuw |date=1876 |publisher=Van Hecke |page=104 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o5J1mVQbozcC&dq=Dirk+Willems+%2216+mei+1569%22&pg=PA104 |access-date=20 December 2023 |language=nl}}
• May 17 – Georg, Count Palatine of Simmern-Sponheim (b. 1518){{cite book |title=Bayerische Zeitung: 1866 |date=1866 |publisher=Wolf |page=145 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tu1DAAAAcAAJ&dq=Georg+von+Simmern+%2217+mai+1569%22&pg=PA145 |access-date=20 December 2023 |language=de}}
• May 26 – Vidus Vidius, Italian surgeon and anatomist (b. 1509){{cite journal |last1=Bahşi |first1=İlhan |title=Life of Guido Guidi (Vidus Vidius), who named the Vidian canal |journal=Child's Nervous System |date=1 May 2020 |volume=36 |issue=5 |pages=881–884 |doi=10.1007/s00381-018-3930-7 |pmid=30066162 |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00381-018-3930-7 |access-date=20 December 2023 |language=en |issn=1433-0350}}
• May 27 – François de Coligny d'Andelot, French general (b. 1521){{cite book |title=Chronologie historique militaire |date=1761 |publisher=Chez Claude Herissant |page=546 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1QRUAAAAcAAJ&dq=Fran%C3%A7ois+de+Coligny+%2227+mai+1569%22&pg=PA546 |access-date=20 December 2023 |language=fr}}
• June 11 – Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (b. 1526){{cite book |title=Neues Archiv für die Geschichte der Stadt Heidelberg und der rheinischen Pfalz |date=1907 |publisher=G. Koester |page=143 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m8hDAAAAYAAJ&dq=Wolfgang+von+Pfalz+%2211+juni+1569%22&pg=RA2-PA143 |access-date=20 December 2023 |language=de}}
• September 5
• Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London (b. c. 1500){{cite journal |last1=Parmiter |first1=Geoffrey de C. |title=Bishop Bonner and the Oath |journal=British Catholic History |date=April 1972 |volume=11 |issue=5 |pages=215–236 |doi=10.1017/S0034193200033100 |s2cid=191843272 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-catholic-history/article/abs/bishop-bonner-and-the-oath/D22529344010B7A15589A649296DF070 |access-date=20 December 2023 |language=en |issn=0034-1932|url-access=subscription }}
• Bernardo Tasso, Italian courtier and poet (b. 1493){{cite book |last1=Grendler |first1=Paul F. |title=Encyclopedia of the Renaissance: Shakespeare-Zwingli |date=1999 |publisher=Scribner's |isbn=978-0-684-80513-9 |page=113 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yo7rAAAAMAAJ&q=Bernardo+Tasso+%225+september+1569%22 |access-date=20 December 2023 |language=en}}
• September 9 – Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Flemish painter{{cite book|author1=John Oliver Hand|author3=Washington National Gallery of Art|author2=Martha Wolff|title=Early Netherlandish Painting|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d_pZim9LVv8C&pg=PA27|year=1986|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-89468-093-9|pages=27|language=en}}
• September 11 – Vincenza Armani, Italian actress (b. 1530){{cite book |title=La Commedia dell'Arte e la societa' Barocca: pt.1 La fascinazione del teatro. pt.2 La professione del teatro |date=1969 |publisher=Bulzoni |isbn=978-88-7119-201-7 |page=28 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HjYHAQAAIAAJ&q=Vincenza+Armani+%2211+settembre+1569%22 |access-date=20 December 2023 |language=it}}
• October 3 – Philibert, Margrave of Baden-Baden (b. 1536){{cite book |last1=Riezler |first1=Sigmund |title=Gescichte Baierns: Bd. Von 1508 bis 1597. 1899 |date=1899 |publisher=F. A. Perthes |page=604 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vtA7AAAAMAAJ&dq=Philibert+von+Baden+%223+oktober+1569%22&pg=PA604 |access-date=20 December 2023 |language=de}}
• October 9 – Vladimir of Staritsa, Russian prince (b. 1533){{cite book |last1=Madariaga |first1=Isabel de |title=Ivan the Terrible |date=25 September 2006 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-11973-2 |page=240 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xdFVn1v3FMUC&dq=Vladimir+of+Staritsa+%229+october+1569%22&pg=PA240 |access-date=20 December 2023 |language=en}}
• October 28 – Ludovica Torelli, Count of Guastalla (b. 1500){{cite book |last1=Staurenghi |first1=Cesare |title=L'Ospedale maggiore di Milano e i suoi antichi sepolcri: particolarmente il foppone ora detto la rotonda cronistoria Milanese dei secoli XV-XX. |date=1916 |publisher=Ulrico Hoepli |page=144 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NC_ggH3ljloC&dq=Ludovica+Torelli+%2228+ottobre+1569%22&pg=PA144 |access-date=22 December 2023 |language=it}}
• November 24 – Celio Secondo Curione, Italian humanist (b. 1503){{cite book |last1=Kutter |first1=Markus |title=Celio Secondo Curione |date=1955 |publisher=Helbing & Lichtenhahn |page=9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6FVAnFYYjGkC&q=Celio+Secondo+Curione+%2224+november+1569%22 |access-date=22 December 2023 |language=de}}
• November 29 – António Ferreira, Portuguese poet (b. 1528){{cite book |last1=Roig |first1=Adrien |title=O teatro clássico em Portugal no século XVI |date=1983 |publisher=Instituto de Cultura e Língua Portuguesa, Ministério da Educação |page=39 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JsZLAAAAMAAJ&q=%2229%20de%20novembro%20de%201569%22 |access-date=22 December 2023 |language=pt-BR}}
• December 10 – Paul Eber, German Lutheran theologian (b. 1511){{cite book |last1=Sixt |first1=Christian Heinrich |title=Dr. Paul Eber, der Schüler, Freund und Amtsgenosse der Reformatoren |date=1843 |publisher=Karl Winter University Bookstore |location=Heidelberg |page=214 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vFJnBwIkBCcC&dq=Paul+Eber+%2210+december+1569%22&pg=PA214 |access-date=22 December 2023 |language=de}}
• December 15 – Ludowika Margaretha of Zweibrücken-Bitsch, spouse of Count Philip V of Hanau-Lichtenberg (b. 1540){{cite book |last1=Lehmann |first1=Johann Georg Lehmann |title=Urkundliche Geschichte der Grafschaft Hanau-Lichtenberg: Geschichte der Dynasten von Ochsenstein, der Grafen von Zweibrücken-Bitsch und der Grafen von Hanau-Lichtenberg |date=1863 |publisher=Druck und Verlag von J. Schneider |page=472 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8ASIj11o69sC&dq=Ludovica+Margaretha+von+Zweibr%C3%BCcken+%2215+december+1569%22&pg=PA472 |access-date=22 December 2023 |language=de}}
• December 23 – Philip II, Metropolitan of Moscow (b. 1507){{cite book |last1=Богуславский |first1=Владимир Вольфович |title=Славянская энциклопедия: Киевская Русь-Московия |date=2001 |publisher=ОЛМА Медиа Групп |isbn=978-5-224-02251-9 |page=605 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5w2aelUEB_UC&dq=%D0%A4%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%BF+II+%2223+%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B1%D1%80%D1%8F+1569%22&pg=PA605 |access-date=22 December 2023 |language=ru}}
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• Janet Beaton, Scottish noble (b. 1519)
• Elin Andersdotter, Swedish lady-in-waiting and political conspirator{{cite book |last1=Arnell |first1=Sture |title=Karin Månsdotter: tolv kapitel om en drottning och hennes tid |date=1951 |publisher=Wahlström & Widstrand |page=113 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-IrUAAAAMAAJ&q=Elin+Andersdotter+%221569%22 |access-date=22 December 2023 |language=sv}}
• Gracia Mendes Nasi, Ottoman businessperson and philanthropist (b. 1510){{cite journal |last1=Miović |first1=Vesna |last2=Seferović |first2=Relja |title=Gracia Mendes in Dubrovnik |journal=Dubrovnik Annals |date=18 September 2014 |issue=18 |pages=65–94 |doi=10.21857/ydkx2c3xg9 |url=https://hrcak.srce.hr/137733 |access-date=22 December 2023 |language=en |issn=1331-3878|doi-access=free }}
• Mahinthrathirat, Ayutthaya king (b. 1539)

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