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At a performance of Richard Edwardes' play, Palamon and Arcite, at Oxford, in the presence of Queen Elizabeth I of England, the stage collapses causing three deaths. The show goes on.

January 6 - Jan Utenhove, translator (b. 1516)
April 25 - Louise Labé, poet (b. c. 1520)
October 10 - Hentenius, biblical commentator (b. 1499)
date unknown
- Richard Edwardes, poet and dramatist (b. c. 1523)
- Thomas Hoby, translator (b. 1530)