1572 in literature

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… 1562 • 1563 • 1564 • 1565 • 1566 • 1567 • 1568 • 1569 • 1570 • 1571 – 1572 – 1573 • 1574 • 1575 • 1576 • 1577 • 1578 • 1579 • 1580 • 1581 • 1582 …
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… 1569 • 1570 • 1571 – 1572 – 1573 • 1574 • 1575 … … 1540s • 1550s • 1560s – 1570s – 1580s • 1590s • 1600s … … 15th century – 16th century – 17th century …
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English law eliminates actors' companies lacking formal patronage, by labelling them "vagabonds".

?June 11 - Ben Jonson, poet and dramatist (d. 1637)
December 27 - Johannes Vodnianus Campanus, Czech poet and dramatist (d. 1622)
date unknown
- John Donne, English poet (d. 1631)
- James Mabbe, English poet (d. 1642)
- İbrahim Peçevi, historian of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1650)
- John Pory, one of the earliest English journalists (d. 1636)

March 13 - Petar Hektorović, Croatian poet (b. 1487)
March 27 - Girolamo Maggi, Italian poet and philologist (b. c. 1523)
August 26 - Petrus Ramus, French humanist writer (b. 1515) (killed in the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre)
October 25 - Cosimo Bartoli, Italian philologist (b. 1503)
date unknown
- Johannes Goropius Becanus, Dutch linguist (b. 1519)
- Séon Carsuel, Gaelic writer (b. c. 1522)
- Gutierre de Cetina, Spanish poet (b. 1518)
- Richard Grafton, English printer and publisher
- Francisco de Moraes, Portuguese romance writer (b. c. 1500)