* 1584 – Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician ( d. 1640 )

* 1530 – Ivan the Terrible, Russian Tsar ( d. 1584 )

Together with Annibale and Ludovico he worked in Bologna on the fresco cycles in Palazzo Fava ( Histories of Jason and Medea, 1584 ) and Palazzo Magnani ( Histories of Romulus, 1590 – 1592 ).

* 1533 – William I of Orange ( d. 1584 )

* 1539 – Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter ( d. 1584 )

* 1536 – Yi I, Korean Confucian scholar ( d. 1584 )

Oxford also patronised a company of musicians, as evidenced by payments in 1584 – 85 by the cities of Oxford and Barnstaple to " the Earl of Oxford's musicians ".

* 1584 – Albert VI of Bavaria ( d. 1666 )

The Wars of Religion culminated in the War of the Three Henrys ( 1584 – 1598 ) in which the royalist King Henry III of France assassinated Henry de Guise, leader of the Spanish-backed Catholic league and the king was murdered in return, followed by the ascension of the Huguenot Henry of Navarre to the French throne.

The development of the Tsar's autocratic powers reached a peak during the reign ( 1547 – 1584 ) of Ivan IV (" Ivan the Terrible ").

* 1584 – William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland by Balthasar Gérard.

# Agnes ( 1584 – 1629 ), married:

* Barbara Sophie ( 16 November 1584 – 13 February 1636 ), married John Frederick, Duke of Württemberg

Jan Borukowski of Bielin ( 1524 – 1584 ) was the Bishop

The Parliament was initially influenced by John Pym ( 1584 – 1699 ) and his supporters.

* 1584 – Santiago de Vera becomes sixth Governor-General of the Spanish colony of the Philippines.

* 1584 – Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia.

* 1555 – François, Duke of Anjou ( d. 1584 )

The expansion of Muscovite Russia under Ivan IV ( 1533 – 1584 ) into the Volga and Caspian region at the expense of the Tatar khanates disrupted the northern pilgrimage and trade routes.

**** William the Silent ( 1533 – 1584 ), one of the princes of Orange ; member of the House of Orange-Nassau ; founder of the Dutch nation

* 1584 – San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid is finished.

* William the Silent ( 1533 – 1584 ), Prince of Orange

* March 14 – Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general ( b. 1584 )

* Giovanni Andrea Ansaldo of Genoa ( 1584 – 1638 ), painter

On 6 April 1584, Oxford's daughter, Bridget, was born, and two works were dedicated to him, Robert Greene's Gwydonius ; The Card of Fancy, and John Southern's Pandora.

* The English poet John Milton popularizes the Chinese sailing carriage in a famous poem ; this peculiar Chinese invention was first written of in the West by Abraham Ortelius in his atlas of 1584.

* November 30 – John Selden, English jurist ( b. 1584 )

He was a direct descendant of John Deming, ( 1615 – 1705 ) an early Puritan settler and original patentee of the Connecticut Colony, and Honor Treat, the daughter of Richard Treat ( 1584 – 1669 ) an early New England settler, Deputy to the Connecticut Legislature and also a Patentee of the Royal Charter of Connecticut, 1662.

* 1584 John Mudd

Manteo had been " civilized " by the English during a trip to London in 1584 where he and another native, Wanchese, learned to become the liaisons between the Roanoke Colony settlers and the Indians, and had favorable interaction with British colonist John White.

Coming from a Catholic family, the great English poet John Donne came up to Hart Hall in 1584.

Balnaves also busied himself in writing what Knox calls " a comfortable treatise of justification ," which was found in manuscript at the house of John Cockburn of Ormiston by Knox's secretary Richard Bannatyne and published at Edinburgh in 1584 under the title The Confession of Faith.

John Pym ( 1584 – 8 December 1643 ) was an English parliamentarian, leader of the Long Parliament and a prominent critic of James I and then Charles I.

In 1584, a Reformed ( Calvinistic ) institution, the Herborn Academy, was founded by John VI of Nassau-Dillenburg, William the Silent's younger brother, and namesake of today's Gymnasium Johanneum.

Much has been written about Loftus during this time but between 1584 and 1591 ; he had a series of clashes with Sir John Perrot on the location of an Irish University.

At the end of 1584, the new lord deputy, Sir John Perrot, sent Stanley north in the company of Sir Henry Bagenal to act against the Ulster chieftains and the Scots led by Sorley Boy MacDonnell.

** John Selden, jurist, scholar ( born 1584 )

** John Ford, dramatist ( born 1584 )

But in 1584 the recently arrived lord deputy of Ireland, Sir John Perrot, led his army into the province in a determined effort to dislodge the Scots.

Between 1584 and 1603, he established effective royal government and relative peace among the lords, ably assisted by John Maitland of Thirlestane, who led the government until 1592.

Walton tells us that Carew in his last illness, being afflicted with the horrors, sent in great haste to " the ever-memorable " John Hales ( 1584 – 1656 ); Hales " told him he should have his prayers, but would by no means give him then either the sacrament or absolution.

During the Second Desmond Rebellion in Munster, he fought in 1580 with the English forces against Gerald Fitzgerald, 15th Earl of Desmond, and assisted Sir John Perrot against the Scots of Ulster in 1584.

John Aubrey in " Brief lives ", gave the following glimpse into the creation of this dictionary: Dr. Edward Davenant told me that this learned man had a shrew to his wife, who was irreconcileably angrie with him for sitting-up late at night so, compileing his Dictionarie, ( Thesaurus linguae Romanae et Britannicae, Londini, 1584 ; dedicated to Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, and Chancellor of Oxford ).

He was educated at Winchester College and at New College, Oxford, where he matriculated on 5 June 1584, alongside John Hoskins.

John Feckenham ( c. 1515 – October, 1584 ), also known as John Howman of Feckingham and later John de Feckenham or John Fecknam, was an English churchman, the last abbot of Westminster.