* 1577 – Christian IV of Denmark and Norway ( d. 1648 )

* 1621 – Cristofano Allori, Italian painter ( b. 1577 )

He was the father of the painter Cristofano Allori ( 1577 – 1621 ).

* 1622 – Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Swiss friar and saint ( b. 1577 )

The most important English chronicles are the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, started under the patronage of King Alfred in the 9th century and continued until the 12th century, and the Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland ( 1577 – 87 ) by Raphael Holinshed and other writers ; the latter documents were important sources of materials for Elizabethan drama.

* 1644 – Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist ( b. 1577 )

* 1577 – Sir Francis Drake sets out from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage.

* 1533 – King Eric XIV of Sweden ( d. 1577 )

In February 1577, it was rumoured that Oxford's sister Mary would marry Lord Gerald Fitzgerald ( 1559 – 1580 ), but by 2 July, she was linked with Peregrine Bertie, later Lord Willoughby d ' Eresby.

* 1618 – Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English politician ( b. 1577 )

* 1577 – Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician ( d. 1643 )

* 1577 – Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr ( d. 1618 )

* 1529 – Charles II, Margrave of Baden-Durlach ( d. 1577 )

# Erdmuthe ( 26 June 1561 – 13 November 1623 ), married in 1577 to Duke John Frederick of Pomerania

Thirdly, he married Princess Elisabeth of Anhalt-Zerbst ( – 5 October 1607 ) in 1577.

* John George, Duke of Jägerndorf ( 16 December 1577 – 2 March 1624 ) married Eva Christina of Württemberg ( 1590-1657 ), daughter of Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg and Sibylla of Anhalt.

# Margaret ( 29 September 1511 – 1577 ), married on 23 January 1530 George I, Duke of Pomerania and after his death in 1534 John V, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst.

* 1577 – Matsunaga Hisahide, Japanese warlord ( b. 1510 )

* 1577 – Piet Hein, Dutch naval commander ( d. 1629 )

* Piet Pieterszoon Hein ( 1577 – 1629 ), Dutch naval commander and folk hero

He was also the great nephew of both George Sandys ( 2 March 1577 – March 1644 ), an English traveller, colonist and poet ; and of Sir Edwin Sandys ( 9 December 1561 – October 1629 ), an English statesman and one of the founders of the London Company.

Strong circumstantial evidence supports the idea that Sir Francis Drake located the island on the final lap of his circumnavigation of the world ( 1577 – 1580 ).

* 1577 – The Peace of Bergerac is signed between Henry III of France and the Huguenots.

** Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman who conspired to kill her father ( b. 1577 )

Beatrice Cenci (; 6 February 1577 – 11 September 1599 ) was an Italian noblewoman.

* Beatrice Cenci ( 1577 – 1599 ), Italian noblewoman, protagonist in a lurid murder trial in Rome ;

* April 1 – Cristofano Allori, Italian painter ( b. 1577 )

It is one of several copies of Italian sculptor Pietro Tacca's ( 1577 – 1640 ) " Il Porcellino " statue.

Cristofano Allori ( 17 October 1577 – 1 April 1621 ) was an Italian portrait painter of the late Florentine Mannerist school.

* June 16-Fortunio Liceti, Italian Aristotelian scientific polymath ( born 1577 )

Notable herbalists included Pietro Andrea Mattioli ( 1501 – 1577 ), physician to the Italian aristocracy and his Commentarii ( 1544 ), which included many newly described species, and his more traditional herbal Epistolarum Medicinalium Libri Quinque ( 1561 ).

He studied the great Italian masters of his time-Titian, Tintoretto, and Michelangelo-when he lived in Italy from 1568 to 1577.

Giacomo Cavedone ( also called Giacomo Cavedoni ) ( 1577 – 1660 ) was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School.

Early in his career, Larivey worked as a translator of other Italian works, including the Facetious Nights ( Facétieuses Nuits ) of Straparole, the Philosophie fabuleuse ( 1577 ), the Philosophie ( 1581 ) of Piccolomini ( Pope Pius II ), and The Discourses of Capelloni ( 1595 ).

Roberto de Nobili ( 1577 – 16 January 1656 ) was an Italian Jesuit missionary to Southern India.

* Alessandro Tiarini ( 1577 – 1668 ), Italian painter

Alexander was noted learning Italian and science ( philosophy ) in Rome by Baptista da Trento in 1577 in a letter describing plots to marry Elizabeth I of England to the Earl of Leicester and re-instate Mary in Scotland.

Fortunio Liceti ( Latin: Fortunius Licetus ; October 3, 1577 – May 17, 1657 ), was an Italian doctor, philosopher, and scientist.

The fountain figure was sculpted and cast by Baroque master Pietro Tacca ( 1577 – 1640 ) shortly before 1634, following a marble Italian copy of a Hellenistic marble original, at the time in the Grand Ducal collections and today in display in the classical section of the Uffizi Museum.

* November 22-Mario Minniti, Italian painter, who was also the model for Caravaggio's painting Boy with a Basket of Fruit ( born 1577 )

** Adam of Bodenstein, Swiss alchemist and physician ( d. 1577 )

** Elimelech of Lizhensk, Orthodox Jewish Rabbi and one of the great Hassidic Rebbes of the past ( d. 1577 )

* December 23 – Anna of Saxony, only child and heiress of Maurice, Elector of Saxony ( d. 1577 )

* December 13 – King Eric XIV of Sweden ( d. 1577 )

* December 23 – Thomas Smith, English scholar and diplomat ( d. 1577 )

** Matsunaga Hisahide, Japanese warlord ( d. 1577 )

** Blaise de Lasseran-Massencôme, seigneur de Montluc, marshal of France ( approximate date ; d. 1577 )

** Richard Aertsz, Dutch historical painter ( d. 1577 )

His principal works, in addition to those mentioned above, are Excellent discours de la vie et de la mort ( London, 1577 ), a bridal present to Charlotte Arbaleste ; Traité de l ' Église où l ' on traite des principales questions qui ont été mues sur ce point en nostre temps ( London, 1578 ); Traité de la vérité de la religion chrétienne contre les athées, épicuriens, payens, juifs, mahométans et autres infidèles ( Antwerp, 1581 ); Le mystère d ' iniquité, c ' est à dire, l ' histoire de la papauté ( Geneva, 1611 ).

* Thoren, Victor E., " The Comet of 1577 and Tycho Brahe's System of the World ," Archives Internationales d ' Histoire des Sciences, 29 ( 1979 ): 53 – 67.

* Hugh Fraser, 5th Lord Lovat ( d. 1577 )

# Sir Robert Bell d. 1577, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer

That he moved from there to the castle in 1209 does not make sense – on 27 October 1577, Hans Georg von Bicken ( d. 1608 ) sold Heinrich von Stockheim ( d. 1588 ) the Castle Mill area.

* Alvise I Mocenigo ( d. 1577 )

* 1577: Sir Lewis Bellenden of Auchnole & Broughton ( d. 1591 )

Miniature of François, Duke of Anjou | d ' Alençon, 1577