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• January 22 – Mohammed II becomes the new Sultan of Morocco upon the death of his father, Abdallah al-Ghalib.
• January 27 – At Agra, Bhagwant Das becomes the new Maharaja of the Kingdom of Amber in what is now India's state of Uttar Pradesh, upon the death of his grandfather, the Raja Bharmal.{{cite book |last1=Sarkar |first1=Jadunath |title=A History of Jaipur: C. 1503-1938 |date=1984 |publisher=Orient Blackswan |isbn=978-81-250-0333-5 |page=34 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O0oPIo9TXKcC&q=1574 |access-date=22 January 2024 |language=en}}
• January 29 – Off of the coast of the Netherlands, the Battle of the Scheldt is fought between the Spanish Fleet and a combined Dutch and English fleet of ships. The Spanish Navy loses 15 ships and 1,200 men are killed, wounded or captured.{{cite book|last1=Watson|first1=Robert|title=The History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain|date=1839|publisher=Tegg}}
• February – The fifth War of Religion against the Huguenots begins in France.{{cite web |title=Fifth war of Religion (1574-1576) |url=https://museeprotestant.org/en/notice/cinquieme-guerre-de-religion-1574-1576/ |website=museeprotestant.org |access-date=22 January 2024}}{{cite book |last1=Konnert |first1=Mark W. |title=Local Politics in the French Wars of Religion: The Towns of Champagne, the Duc de Guise, and the Catholic League, 1560–95 |date=15 May 2017 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-351-92159-6 |page=125 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ajneDgAAQBAJ&dq=fifth+war+huguenots+%22february+1574%22&pg=PA125 |access-date=22 January 2024 |language=en}}
• March 2 – Swedish troops attack Wesenberg Castle in Estonia and lose at least 1,000 men in attempting to capture it from the Russian Army.Gary Dean Peterson, Warrior Kings of Sweden: The Rise of an Empire in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (McFarland, 2007) pp. 91-93
• March 17 – Within the Swedish Army, a fight between Scottish and German mercenaries is fought. By the end of the battle, several hundred Scots are dead, compared to 30 Germans.

• April 14 – Battle of Mookerheyde: Spanish forces under Sancho de Avila defeat the rebel forces of Louis of Nassau, who is killed.{{cite book|author=William Edwards|title=Notes on European History: The Reformation and the ascendancy of France, 1494-1715|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uSVGAQAAIAAJ|year=1960|publisher=Rivingtons|page=290|language=en}}
• April – The fort of Narnala in the Deccan falls to the Ahmadnagar Sultanate, and with it the Berar sultanate is annexed by Ahmadnagar.{{cite book |last=Majumdar |first=R.C. |year=1974 |title=The Mughul Empire |chapter=The Five Sultanates of the Deccan |publisher=Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan |author-link=R.C. Majumdar|url=https://archive.org/details/mughal-empire-r.-c.-majumdar-1974|pages=465–466}}
• May 30 – On the death of King Charles IX of France of a tubercular condition at the Château de Vincennes, he is succeeded by his brother King Henry of Poland, who becomes King Henry III of France. His mother, Catherine de' Medici, acts as Regent, until Henry arrives from Poland.{{cite book|author=David Buisseret|title=Huguenots and Papists|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BlprPZtkDuEC|year=1972|publisher=Ginn|isbn=978-0-602-21539-2|page=65|language=en}}
• June 10
• Construction of The White Tower begins in the Czech Republic.[http://www.bilavez.cz/historie.html History of the White Tower]
• Manila, Philippines gains cityhood.

• July 12 – Selim II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, launches the attempt to reclaim Tunis from control of the Holy Roman Empire with more than 250 warships and 100,000 troops, and to restore North Africa to Muslim control.{{cite book|title=The Papacy and the Levant, 1204–1571: Vol.IV |first=Kenneth Meyer |last=Setton |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_DUwLAAAAIAAJ/page/1094/mode/2up?q=%2212+july%22|page=1095|publisher=The American Philosophical Society|year=1984 |isbn=978-0-87169-114-9 |place=Philadelphia}}
• July 13 – In Berlin, John George, Elector of Brandenburg, orders the founding of the Evangelisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster, which remains 450 years later as one of the most prestigious preparatory schools in Germany.{{cite book |last1=Wiese |first1=Ludwig Adolph |title=Das Höhere Schulwesen in Preussen: Historisch-statistische Darstellung, im Auftrage des Ministers der geistlichen, Unterrichts- und Medicinal-Angelegenheiten |date=1902 |publisher=Wiegandt und Grieben |page=200 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mqxz4yhmwAIC&dq=Johann+Georg+Evangelisches+Gymnasium+%2213+juli+1574%22&pg=PA200 |access-date=22 January 2024 |language=de}}
• July 26 – Kılıç Ali Pasha begins construction of an Ottoman fortress on the coastline of Morocco, directly across Andalusia in mainland Spain.
• August 24 – The Tunisian port of La Goulette falls to Ottoman troops after six weeks.María Antonia Garcés, Cervantes in Algiers: A Captive's Tale (Vanderbilt University Press, 2005) p.220
• August 30 – Guru Ram Das becomes the fourth of the Sikh gurus.
• September 13 – The last Holy Roman Imperial defenders surrender Tunis to the Ottoman General Cığalazade Yusuf Sinan Pasha.
• September – A plot to assassinate John III of Sweden is discovered, headed by Charles de Mornay and implicating Charles Dancay, Hogenskild Bielke, Gustaf Banér, Pontus De la Gardie, Princess Elizabeth of Sweden, Princess Cecilia of Sweden, and Duke Charles.Karin Tegenborg Falkdalen (2010). Vasadöttrarna ['The Vasa Daughters']. Falun: Historiska Media. {{ISBN|978-91-85873-87-6}} (In Swedish)

• October 3 – The city of Leiden, besieged by the Spanish, is relieved by a Sea Beggars fleet under Louis Boisot.{{cite book |last1=Oostrom |first1=F. P. van |title=Historisch tableau: geschiedenis opnieuw verbeeld in schoolplaten en essays |date=1998 |publisher=Amsterdam University Press |isbn=978-90-5356-316-8 |page=56 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tHzjAAAAMAAJ&q=leiden+Louis+Boisot+Geuzen+%223+oktober+1574%22 |access-date=22 January 2024 |language=nl}}{{cite web |title=Siege and Relief of Leiden |url=https://www.lakenhal.nl/en/story/siege-and-relief-of-leiden-oud |website=Museum De Lakenhal |access-date=22 January 2024}}
• November 22 – The Juan Fernández Islands in the South Pacific Ocean are discovered by Spanish sailor Juan Fernández.{{cite book |last1=Lambert |first1=Andrew |title=Crusoe's island : a rich and curious history of pirates, castaways and madness |date=2017 |publisher=Faber & Faber |location=London |isbn=978-0-571-33024-9 |page=17 |url=https://archive.org/details/crusoesislandric0000lamb/page/16/mode/2up?q=1574 |access-date=22 January 2024}}
• November 29 – Limahong and Juan de Salcedo quarrel during the Battle of Manila.{{cite book |last1=hispano-americanas |title=Actas y memorias |date=1921 |publisher=Congreso de historia y geografía Hispano-Americanas |pages=386–387 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BadnAAAAMAAJ&dq=Limahong+Juan+de+Salcedo+%2229+de+noviembre+de+1574%22&pg=PA386 |access-date=22 January 2024 |language=es}}
• December 15 – Selim II, the 50-year-old Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, is killed after becoming drunk, falling, and fracturing his skull on the floor of the Topkapi Palace.Diana Darke, The Ottomans: A Cultural Legacy (Thames & Hudson, 2022) p.145
• December 22 – Prince Murad bin-Selim of the Ottoman Empire completes the murders, by strangulation, of his four younger brothers, Süleyman, Abdüllah, Osman, and Cihangir.
• December 27 – Murad III, eldest son of Selim II, is formally enthroned as the Ottoman Sultan after eliminating his other brothers as rival claimants to the throne.

• Prince El-Mirza of Kakheti is defeated in his bid for the throne by his half-brother, Alexander II.
• The Liturgical Battle royal between the Reformation and Counter Reformation begins in Sweden, and continues until the Uppsala Synod of 1593.
• La Alameda, Seville, is laid out in Spain, as Europe's first public garden.{{cite book|last=Albardonedo Freire|first=Antonio José|title=El urbanismo de Sevilla durante el reinado de Felipe II|location=Sevilla|publisher=Guadalquivir|year=2002|isbn=84-8093-115-9|pages=191–208}}

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• January 17 – Robert Fludd, English Rosicrucian and Paracelsian physicist (d. 1637){{cite journal |last1=Guariento |first1=Luca |title=Life, Friends, and Associations of Robert Fludd: A Revised Account |journal=Journal of Early Modern Studies |date=2016 |volume=5 |issue=1 |pages=9–37 |doi=10.5840/jems2016511 |url=https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=898329 |access-date=22 January 2024 |language=English |issn=2286-0290|url-access=subscription }}
• February 17 – Pedro Téllez-Girón, 3rd Duke of Osuna, Spanish nobleman and politician (d. 1624){{cite book |last1=Marín |first1=Francisco Rodríguez |title=El gran duque de Osuna |date=1920 |publisher=R. Velasco |page=9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r-spAQAAMAAJ&dq=Pedro+T%C3%A9llez-Gir%C3%B3n+%2217+de+diciembre+de+1574%22&pg=PA9 |access-date=22 January 2024 |language=es}}
• March 4 – Carl Gyllenhielm, Swedish soldier and politician (d. 1650){{cite book |last1=Hofberg |first1=Herman |title=Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon |date=1906 |publisher=Albert Bonniers Forlag |location=Stockholm |page=426 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4qk7AQAAMAAJ&dq=Carl+Gyllenhielm+%224+mars+1574%22&pg=PA426 |access-date=22 January 2024 |language=sv}}
• March 5 – William Oughtred, English mathematician and Anglican minister (d. 1660){{cite book|author=Anthony John Turner|title=Of Time and Measurement: Studies in the History of Horology and Fine Technology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BNDbAAAAMAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Variorum|isbn=978-0-86078-378-7|page=183|language=en}}
• March 7 – John Wilbye, English composer (date of baptism) (d. 1638){{cite book |last1=Brown |first1=David |title=Wilbye |date=1974 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-315220-5 |page=9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g0QIAQAAMAAJ&q=John+Wilbye+%227+march+1574%22 |access-date=22 January 2024 |language=en}}
• April 27 – Philip Rubens, Flemish lawyer and older brother to painter Peter Paul Rubens (d. 1611){{cite web |title=Rubenius, Philippus (1574-1611) {{!}} Digitaal Wetenschapshistorisch Centrum |url=https://dwc.knaw.nl/rubenius-philippus-1574-1611/ |website=dwc.knawl.nl |access-date=22 January 2024 |language=nl |date=11 September 2023}}
• May 6 – Pope Innocent X (d. 1655){{cite book|author=Hakluyt Society|title=Works|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-HngAAAAMAAJ|year=1967|publisher=Kraus Reprint|page=lxiii|language=en}}
• May 14
• Daniel Dumonstier, French artist (d. 1646){{cite book |last1=Lecœur |first1=Daniel |title=Daniel Dumonstier: 1574-1646 |date=2006 |publisher=Arthena |isbn=978-2-903239-34-3 |page=21 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U5LrAAAAMAAJ&q=Daniel+Dumonstier+%2214+mai+1574%22 |access-date=24 January 2024 |language=fr}}
• Francesco Rasi, Italian composer, singer, instrumentalist, poet (d. 1621){{cite book |last1=Macy |first1=Laura Williams |title=The Grove Book of Opera Singers |date=2008 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-533765-5 |page=400 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N0zthpCZuAUC&dq=Francesco+Rasi+%2214+may+1574%22&pg=PA400 |access-date=24 January 2024 |language=en}}
• June 13 – Juan Alonso de Solis y Mendoza, Spanish Catholic prelate, Bishop of Puerto Rico (1635–1640) (d. 1640){{cite book |last1=Eubel |first1=Conrad |title=Hierarchia catholica medii aevi, sive Summorum pontificum, S.R.E. cardinalium, ecclesiarum antistitum series |date=1913 |publisher=Monasterii Sumptibus et typis librariae Regensbergianae |page=286 |url=https://archive.org/details/hierarchiacathol04eubeuoft/page/286/mode/2up?q=1574 |access-date=24 January 2024}}
• June 13 – Wilhelm Kettler, Duke of Courland (d. 1640)
• June – Richard Barnfield, English poet (d. 1627){{cite ODNB |title=Barnfield, Richard|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-1487|year=2004 |access-date=24 January 2024 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/1487}}
• July 1 – Joseph Hall, English bishop and satirist (d. 1656){{cite ODNB |title=Hall, Joseph|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-1002388|year=2004 |access-date=24 January 2024 |language=en}}
• July 2 – Dorothea Maria of Anhalt, Duchess consort of Saxe-Weimar (1602–1605) (d. 1617){{cite book |last1=Schütz |first1=W. |title=Das Staatsleben des Großherzogthums Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach geschichtlich und wissenschaftlich-praktisch in kurzer Übersicht für Stadt und Land |date=1861 |publisher=Kühn |page=5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fHgAAAAAcAAJ&dq=Dorothea+Maria+von+Anhalt+%222+juli+1574%22&pg=PA5 |access-date=24 January 2024 |language=de}}
• July 10 – Clara Maria of Pomerania-Barth, German noble (d. 1623){{cite book |title=Zeitschrift des Harz-Vereins für Geschichte und Altertumskunde |date=1889 |publisher=Harzverein |page=235 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1OIGPJcPOaoC&dq=Clara+Maria+%E2%80%9E10.+Juli+1574%E2%80%9C&pg=PA235 |access-date=24 January 2024 |language=de}}
• July 23 – Balthasar I Moretus, Flemish printer (d. 1641){{cite book |last1=Imhof |first1=D. |last2=Imhof |first2=Dirk |title=The Illustration of Books Published by the Moretuses |date=1997 |publisher=Plantin-Moretus Museum |page=20 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EFRLAQAAIAAJ&q=%20%2223%20july%201574%22 |access-date=24 January 2024 |language=en}}
• August 2 – Sir Richard Beaumont, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1631){{cite web |title=Beaumont, Sir Richard (1574-1631), of Whitley Hall, Kirkheaton, Yorks.|url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/beaumont-sir-richard-1574-1631 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org |access-date=24 January 2024}}
• August 7 – Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick, English explorer and geographer (d. 1649){{cite ODNB |title=Dudley, Sir Robert|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-8161|year=2004 |access-date=24 January 2024 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/8161}}
• August 28 – Frederick IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1636–1648) (d. 1648){{cite book |title=Vaterländisches Archiv des Historischen Vereins für Niedersachsen |date=1845 |publisher=Historischer Verein für Niedersachsen |page=114 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TS1KAQAAMAAJ&dq=Friedrich+IV+%2228+august+1574%22&pg=RA1-PA114 |access-date=24 January 2024 |language=de}}
• August 30 – Albert Szenczi Molnár, Hungarian translator (d. 1634){{cite book |last1=Pintér |first1=Jenő |title=A mohácsi csatától Bessenyei György fellépéséig (1526-1772) |date=1909 |publisher=Rényi K. |page=213 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=79-Cf4rLSVQC&dq=Albert+Szenczi+Moln%C3%A1r+%221574.+Augusztus+30.%22&pg=PA213 |access-date=24 January 2024 |language=hu}}
• September 6 – Luis Sotelo, Spanish Franciscan friar who died as a martyr in Japan (d. 1624)
• September 18 – Claudio Achillini, Italian philosopher, theologian, mathematician, poet, jurist (d. 1640){{cite book |title=Atti della Reale Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Ser. 6., Memorie della classe di scienze morali, storiche e filologiche |date=1925 |publisher=R. Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei |page=197 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6xHqnTA156sC&dq=Claudio+Achillini+%2218+settembre+1574%22&pg=PA197 |access-date=24 January 2024 |language=it}}
• September 29 – Ludovic Stewart, 2nd Duke of Lennox, Scottish nobleman and politician (d. 1624){{cite book |last1=Burke |first1=Bernard |title=A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire |date=1866 |publisher=Harrison |page=513 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K3MaAAAAYAAJ&dq=Ludovic+Stewart+%2229+september+1574%22&pg=PA513 |access-date=24 January 2024 |language=en}}
• September – Thomas Gataker, English clergyman and theologian (d. 1654){{cite book |last1=Gataker |first1=Thomas |last2=van den Honert |first2=Johan |title=Verklaring van de profeetsyen van Jesaia |date=1745 |publisher=Isaak Tirion en Jacobus Loveringh |page=xxxiv |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EKpnAAAAcAAJ&dq=Thomas+Gataker+%224+september+1574%22&pg=PR34 |access-date=24 January 2024 |language=nl}}
• October 25 – François de Sourdis, French Catholic cardinal (d. 1628){{cite book |last1=Peyrous |first1=Bernard |title=La réforme catholique à Bordeaux, 1600-1719: le renouveau d'un diocèse |date=1995 |publisher=Fédération historique du Sud-Ouest |isbn=978-2-85408-021-6 |page=108 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7GbSAAAAIAAJ&q=%2225%20octobre%201574%22 |access-date=24 January 2024 |language=fr}}{{cite web |title=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of March 3, 1599 |url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1599.htm#Escoubleau |website=cardinals.fiu.edu |access-date=24 January 2024}}
• November 4 – Erycius Puteanus, Dutch humanist, philologist (d. 1646){{cite book |title=De eendragt: veertiendaegsch tijdschrift voor letteren, kunsten en wetenschappen |date=1847 |publisher=Michiels |page=2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zIM-AAAAcAAJ&dq=Erycius+Puteanus+%224+november+1574%22&pg=RA4-PA2 |access-date=24 January 2024 |language=nl}}
• November 5 – Charlotte de La Marck, French duchess (d. 1594){{cite book |last1=Desbois |first1=François Alexandre Aubert de la Chenaye |title=Dictionnaire de la noblesse |date=1775 |publisher=Antione Boudet |page=515 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6UETAAAAQAAJ&dq=Charlotte+de+La+Marck+%225+novembre+1574%22&pg=PA515 |access-date=24 January 2024 |language=fr}}
• November 10 – Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria, Austrian archduchess (d. 1621){{cite book |title=Archiv für österreichische Geschichte |date=1876 |publisher=Karl Gerold |page=222 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DL9mAAAAcAAJ&dq=Maria+Christina+%2210+november+1574%22&pg=PA222 |access-date=24 January 2024 |language=en}}
• November 30 – Frederick of Solms-Rödelheim, imperial chamberlain, war and Obrist (d. 1649){{cite book |last1=und Assenheim |first1=Otto Solms-Rödelheim und Assenheim |title=Friedrich, graf zu Solms-Laubach, erster regierender graf zu Rödelheim. 1574-1635: Ein zeit- und lebensbild aus der periode der deutschen religionskämpfe. ier bd |date=1888 |publisher=Friedrich Eudhardt |page=1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mR4RAAAAYAAJ&dq=Friedrich+zu+Solms-R%C3%B6delheim+%2230+november+1574%22&pg=PA1 |access-date=24 January 2024 |language=de}}
• December 8 – Maria Anna of Bavaria, Archduchess of Inner Austria (d. 1616){{cite book |last1=Wurzbach |first1=Constantin von |title=Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich|date=1861 |publisher=L. C. Zamarski |page=23 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x4xOtsEsWy0C&dq=Maria+Anna+von+Bayern+%2218+december+1574%22&pg=PA23 |access-date=27 January 2024 |language=de}}
• December 10 – Mikołaj Łęczycki, Polish Jesuit (d. 1653){{cite book |last1=Załęski |first1=Stanisław |title=Jezuici w Polsce |date=1901 |publisher=Drukiem i nakładem, drukarni ludowej |page=687 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z6wuAAAAYAAJ&dq=Miko%C5%82aj+%C5%81%C4%99czycki+%2210+grudnia+1574%22&pg=PA687 |access-date=27 January 2024 |language=pl}}
• December 12
• Adam Wenceslaus, Duke of Cieszyn (d. 1617){{cite book |last1=Sláma |first1=František |title=Dějiny Těšínska |date=1889 |publisher=Nakl. spolku pro vydáváni laciných knih českých |page=88 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fbYDAAAAYAAJ&dq=Adam+V%C3%A1clav+T%C4%9B%C5%A1%C3%ADnsk%C3%BD+12.+prosinec+1574&pg=PA88 |access-date=27 January 2024 |language=cs}}
• Anne of Denmark, queen of James VI of Scotland (d. 1619){{cite book |last1=Field |first1=Jemma |title=Tudor and Stuart Consorts: Power, Influence, and Dynasty |date=2022 |publisher=Springer International Publishing |isbn=978-3-030-95197-9 |pages=211–229 |chapter-url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-95197-9_13 |access-date=27 January 2024 |language=en |chapter=Anna of Denmark: Daughter, Wife, Sister, and Mother of Kings|series=Queenship and Power |doi=10.1007/978-3-030-95197-9_13 }}
• December 15 – Samuel Besler, Polish composer (d. 1625){{cite book |last1=Steinitz |first1=Hugo |title=Ueber das Leben und die Compositionen des Matthaeus Apelles von Löwenstern |date=1892 |publisher=Verlag nicht ermittelbar |page=14 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OExJAQAAMAAJ&dq=Samuel+Besler+%2215+december+1574%22&pg=PA14 |access-date=27 January 2024 |language=de}}
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• John Day, English dramatist (d. 1640){{cite book |last1=Day |first1=John |title=A critical edition of John Day's The parliament of bees |date=1979 |publisher=Garland Pub. |location=New York |isbn=978-0-8240-9748-6 |page=xi |url=https://archive.org/details/criticaleditiono0000dayj/page/n13/mode/2up?q=1574 |access-date=27 January 2024}}
• Wilhelm Kinsky, Bohemian nobleman (d. 1634){{cite book |last1=Brož |first1=Ivan |title=Velké postavy rodu Kinských |date=1997 |publisher=Petrklíč |isbn=978-80-85243-87-1 |page=7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zEQnAAAAMAAJ&q=Vil%C3%A9m+Kinsk%C3%BD+%221574%22 |access-date=27 January 2024 |language=cs}}
• Claudio Pari, Sicilian composer{{cite web |title=Pari, Claudio [Paris, Claude] |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/display/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000020899 |website=oxfordmusiconline.com |publisher=Paolo Emilio Carapezza |access-date=27 January 2024}}
• Feng Menglong, Chinese poet (d. 1645){{cite book |last1=Yang |first1=Shuhui |title=Appropriation and Representation: Feng Menglong and the Chinese Vernacular Story |url=https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/41563 |publisher=University of Michigan Press |access-date=27 January 2024 |language=English |date=2020|doi=10.3998/mpub.19263 |hdl=20.500.12657/41563 |isbn=978-0-472-90151-7 }}

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• January 26 – Martin Helwig, German cartographer of Silesia (b. 1516){{cite book |title=Allgemeine deutsche Biographie |date=1880 |publisher=Duncker & Humblot |page=718 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I7CLTb7YTMsC&dq=Martin+Helwig+26+november+1574&pg=PA718 |access-date=27 January 2024 |language=de}}
• January 30 – Damião de Góis, Portuguese philosopher (b. 1502){{cite book |last1=Tavares |first1=José Fernando |title=Damião de Góis: um paradigma erasmiano no humanismo português |date=1999 |publisher=Universitária Editora |isbn=978-972-700-249-8 |page=37 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T54vAQAAMAAJ&q=%20%2230%20de%20janeiro%20de%201574%22 |access-date=27 January 2024 |language=pt-BR}}
• March 4 – Anna II, Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg, German noblewoman, reigning from 1516 until her death (b. 1504){{cite book |last1=Jacobs |first1=Eduard |title=Zeitschrift des Harz-Vereins für Geschichte und Alterthumskunde |date=1901 |publisher=Selbstverlag des Vereins |page=465 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v9lDAAAAYAAJ&dq=Anna+zu+Stolberg+4+marz+1574&pg=PA465 |access-date=27 January 2024 |language=de}}
• March 27 – Takeda Nobutora, Japanese warlord (b. 1494){{cite web |title=武田信虎(たけだ・のぶとら)とは？ 意味や使い方 |url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%AD%A6%E7%94%B0%E4%BF%A1%E8%99%8E-93064 |website=コトバンク |access-date=27 January 2024 |language=ja}}
• April 14 – Louis of Nassau, Dutch general (b. 1538)
• April 17 – Joachim Camerarius, German classical scholar (b. 1500){{cite book |last1=Kössling |first1=Rainer |last2=Wartenberg |first2=Günther |title=Joachim Camerarius |date=2003 |publisher=Gunter Narr Verlag |isbn=978-3-8233-5981-4 |page=302 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CeU-k_n-A2cC&q=%2217%20april%201574%22 |access-date=27 January 2024 |language=de}}
• April 21 – Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1519){{cite web |title=Cosimo I de' Medici, duca di Firenze, granduca di Toscana - Treccani |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/cosimo-i-de-medici-duca-di-firenze-granduca-di-toscana_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ |website=Treccani |access-date=27 January 2024 |language=it}}
• April 30 – Joseph Boniface de La Molle, Provençale lover of Marguerite de Valois (b. 1530)
• May 14 – Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (b. 1479)
• May 3 – Giovanni Ricci, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1498){{cite web |title=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of November 20, 1551 |url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1551-ii.htm#Ricci |website=cardinals.fiu.edu |access-date=27 January 2024}}
• May 30 – King Charles IX of France (b. 1550)
• June 12 – Renée of France, French princess (b. 1510){{cite web |title=Renée of France {{!}} French duchess {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Renee-of-France |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=10 May 2023 |language=en}}
• June 14 – John III the Terrible, Voivode of Moldavia (b. 1521){{cite book |last1=Diaconovich |first1=Corneliu |title=Enciclopedia română: publicată din insărcinarea și sub auspiciile Asociațiunii pentru literatura română și cultura |date=1900 |publisher=W. Krafft |page=859 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=62cMAAAAYAAJ&dq=Ioan+Vod%C4%83+cel+Viteaz+%2214+iunie+1574%22&pg=PA859 |access-date=27 January 2024 |language=ro}}
• June 26 – Gabriel, comte de Montgomery, captain of the Scottish Guard of Henry II of France (b. 1530){{cite book |title=Histoire de France: servant de texte explicatif aux tableaux des Galeries de Versailles |date=1848 |publisher=Ch. Gavard |page=42 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CUdSAAAAcAAJ&dq=Gabriel+de+Lorges+%2226+juin+1574%22&pg=PA42 |access-date=27 January 2024 |language=fr}}
• June 27 – Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect (b. 1511){{cite book|author=Carel van Mander|title=The Lives of the Illustrious Netherlandish and German Painters, from the First Edition of the Schilder-boeck (1603-1604): Commentary on Biography and Lives : fol. 196r01-211r35|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sBvrAAAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=Davaco|isbn=978-90-70288-91-4|page=50|language=en}}
• July 26 – Birgitte Gøye, Danish county administrator, lady in waiting, landholder and educator (b. 1511){{cite book |title=Salmonsens konversations Leksikon |date=1920 |publisher=Schultz |page=556 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5t6kU6c4OCMC&dq=Birgitte+G%C3%B8ye+%2226+juli+1574%22&pg=PA556 |access-date=27 January 2024 |language=da}}
• August 23 – Ebussuud Efendi, Ottoman Grand Mufti (b. 1490){{cite book |last1=Repp |first1=Richard Cooper |title=The Müfti of Istanbul: A Study in the Development of the Ottoman Learned Hierarchy |date=1986 |publisher=Ithaca Press |isbn=978-0-86372-041-3 |page=278 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=017YAAAAMAAJ&q=Ebussuud+Efendi+%2223+august+1574%22 |access-date=27 January 2024 |language=en}}
• August 27 – Bartolomeo Eustachi, Italian anatomist
• September 1 – Louis, Count of Stolberg, German noble (b. 1505){{cite book |title=Allgemeine deutsche biographie |date=1893 |publisher=Duncker und Humblot |page=339 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JHJUN0eHKwAC&dq=Ludwig+zu+Stolberg+%221+september+1574%22&pg=PA339 |access-date=27 January 2024 |language=de}}
• September 4 – Charles de Mornay, Swedish (originally French) court official, diplomat and royal favorite (b. 1514){{cite web |title=Charles de Mornay |url=https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=17458 |website=sok.riksarkivet.se |access-date=27 January 2024}}
• September 15 – Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry (b. 1523){{cite book |title=Mémoires et documents publiés par la Société savoisienne d'histoire et d'archéologie |date=1881 |publisher=Société savoisienne d'histoire et d'archéologie |page=15 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WB2LqdQz3sEC&dq=Marguerite+de+France+%2215+septembre+1574%22&pg=PA15 |access-date=27 January 2024 |language=fr}}
• September 17 – Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Spanish admiral and explorer (b. 1519){{cite book |title=Boletín de la Real Academia de la Historia |date=1918 |publisher=Real Academia de la Historia. |page=220 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m2FIAAAAYAAJ&dq=Pedro+Men%C3%A9ndez+de+Avil%C3%A9s+%2217+de+septiembre+de+1574%22&pg=RA1-PA220 |access-date=28 January 2024 |language=es}}
• September 26 – Elisabeth of Anhalt-Zerbst, Abbess of Gernrode and Frose, Countess of Barby-Mühlingen (b. 1545)
• September 28 – Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, Italian condottiero (b. 1514){{cite book |title=Picenum rivista marchigiana illustrata mensile |date=1921 |publisher=Tip. Diocleziana Verdesi |page=141 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vbl8je6JeTIC&dq=Guidobaldo+II+della+Rovere+%2228+settembre+1574%22&pg=PA141 |access-date=28 January 2024 |language=it}}
• October 1 – Maarten van Heemskerck, Dutch painter (b. 1498){{cite web |title=Heemskerck, Maarten [Maerten; Martinus] van |url=https://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/display/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.001.0001/oao-9781884446054-e-7000037167 |website=Grove Art Online |access-date=28 January 2024 |language=en}}
• November 23 – John III, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken, German noble (b. 1511){{cite book |last1=Menzel |first1=Carl |title=Geschichte von Nassau von den ältesten Zeiten bis auf die Gegenwart, auf der Grundlage urkundlicher Quellenforschung: Geschichte von Nassau von der Mitte des vierzehnten Jahrhunderts bis zur Gegenwart ; 2. 6 |date=1884 |publisher=Kreidel |page=352 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wi9eK88IzWkC&dq=Johann+IV.+von+Nassau+%2223+november+1574%22&pg=PA352 |access-date=28 January 2024 |language=de}}
• November 28 – Georg Major, German Protestant theologian (b. 1502){{cite book |last1=Dingel |first1=Irene |title=Reaktionen auf das Augsburger Interim: Der Interimistische Streit (1548-1549) |date=21 July 2010 |publisher=Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht |isbn=978-3-647-56008-3 |page=49 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f8jkEAAAQBAJ&dq=Georg+Major+%2228+november+1574%22&pg=PA49 |access-date=28 January 2024 |language=de}}
• December 4 – Georg Joachim Rheticus, German mathematician and cartographer (b. 1514){{cite web |title=Georg Joachim Rheticus |url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Rheticus/ |website=Maths History |access-date=28 January 2024 |language=en}}
• December 12 – Selim II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1524){{cite book|author=Jem Sultan|title=Coins of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic: A Detailed Catalogue of the Jem Sultan Collection|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5HdmAAAAMAAJ|year=1977|publisher=B & R Publishers|page=119|language=en}}
• December 25 – Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine (b. 1524){{cite web |title=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of July 27, 1547 |url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1547.htm |website=cardinals.fiu.edu |access-date=28 January 2024}}
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• Hans Eworth, Flemish painter (b. 1520){{cite book |last1=Carney |first1=Jo |title=Renaissance and Reformation, 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary |date=30 October 2000 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=978-1-56750-728-7 |page=135 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4bvOEAAAQBAJ&dq=Hans+Eworth+%221574%22&pg=PA135 |access-date=28 January 2024 |language=en}}
• Martin de Goiti, Spanish conquistador

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