* 1587 – Francis Drake leads a raid in the Bay of Cádiz, sinking at least 23 ships of the Spanish fleet.

* 1587 – Virginia Dare, granddaughter of Governor John White of the Colony of Roanoke, becomes the first English child born in the Americas.

He was born in Antwerp, where he started his career, but he spent most of it in Middelburg ( 1587 – 1613 ), where he moved with his family because of the threat of religious persecution.

He travelled to Venice ( 1582, 1587 – 1589 ) and Parma ( 1586 – 1587 ).

On 9 November 1555 Cardinal Ippolito II d ' Este ( famed as the builder of the Villa d ' Este at Tivoli ), wrote to Guglielmo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua ( 1538 – 1587 ), that he has heard that His Grace is interested in his cantoretti, and offering to send him two, so that he could choose one for his own service.

That the curve followed by a chain is not a parabola was proven by Joachim Jungius ( 1587 – 1657 ); this result was published posthumously in 1669.

* 1542 – Mary, Queen of Scots ( d. 1587 )

There were many great encyclopedists throughout Chinese history, including the scientist and statesman Shen Kuo ( 1031 – 1095 ) with his Dream Pool Essays of 1088, the statesman, inventor, and agronomist Wang Zhen ( active 1290 – 1333 ) with his Nong Shu of 1313, and the written Tiangong Kaiwu of Song Yingxing ( 1587 – 1666 ), the latter of whom was termed the " Diderot of China " by British historian Joseph Needham.

* 1594 – Having already inherited the throne of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth through his mother Catherine Jagellonica of Poland in 1587, Sigismund III of the House of Vasa is crowned King of Sweden, having succeeded his father John III of Sweden in 1592.

* 1587 – Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.

* Sophie of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( March 23, 1535 – February 12, 1587 ) married Henry XI of Legnica on November 11, 1560.

* 1587 – William Arnold, English-American settler ( d. 1675 )

* 1587 – Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares, Spanish statesman ( d. 1645 )

* 1587 – Johannes Fabricius, German astronomer ( d. 1616 )

* 1587 – Colony of Roanoke: a second group of English settlers arrives on Roanoke Island off North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.

* Christian William ( 28 August 1587 – 1 January 1665 )

* 1587 – Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy ( d. 1637 )

* 1541 – Francesco I de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( d. 1587 )

* Mary, Queen of Scots ( 1542 – 1587 ), mother of James I of England

* October 28 – Stefano Landi, Italian composer ( b. 1587 )

* Stefano Landi ( 1586 or 1587 – 1639 )

Stefano Landi ( baptized 26 February 1587 – 28 October 1639 ) was an Italian composer and teacher of the early Baroque Roman School.

* 1587 – Francesca Caccini, Italian composer, singer, and poet ( d. 1640 )

* November 29-Francesco Angeloni, Italian historian, novelist, dramatist and collector ( born 1587 )

Uluj Ali ( Turkish: Uluç Ali Reis, later Uluç Ali Paşa and finally Kılıç Ali Paşa ; born Giovanni Dionigi Galeni ; 1519-21 June 1587 ) was an Italian by birth who was captured as a slave and later converted to Islam, became a pirate, and later became an Ottoman admiral ( Reis ), king of Algiers, and Grand Admiral ( Kapudan Pasha ) of the Ottoman Fleet in the 16th century.

* In 1587, David de Pomi uses the word " italiano " in reference to the Italian glosses in his trilingual dictionary.

* Frederico Ghisliero ( 1587 ) ( Italian )

In 1587 the grand-duke Francesco died ; to this event Sozzini's biographers attribute the loss of his Italian property, but his unpublished letters show that he was on good terms with the new grand-duke, Ferdinando.

Vincenzo Ruffo ( c. 1508 – February 9, 1587 ) was an Italian composer of the Renaissance.

Francesca Caccini ( 18 September 1587 – after 1641 ) was an Italian composer, singer, lutenist, poet, and music teacher of the early Baroque era.

* Giovanni Battista Fontana ( painter ) ( 1524 – 1587 ), an Italian painter and engraver

Vincenzo Bellavere ( also Bell ' haver, Bell ' aver, Belaver ) ( c. 1540-1541 – August 29, 1587 ) was an Italian composer of the Venetian School.

Francesco Angeloni ( 1587 – 29 November 1652 ) was an Italian writer, historian and collector of classical antiquities.

Notable natives and residents include the Slovenian economist Ivan Ples ( 1886 – 1958 ), composer Andrej Volarič ( 1863 – 1895 ), and the Italian Jesuit philologist Gregorio Alasia de Sommaripa ( 1587 – 1626 ), who compiled the first Italian-Slovene dictionary in 1601.

* Vincenzo de ' Rossi ( 1525 – 1587 ), an Italian sculptor, apprentice to Baccio Bandinelli.

* Giovanni Leonardo Di Bona ( 1542 – 1587 ), Italian chess player

* 1653 – Samuel Scheidt, German composer ( b. 1587 )

* 1587 – Samuel Scheidt, German composer ( d. 1654 )

* March 24 – Samuel Scheidt, German composer ( b. 1587 )

* Early Baroque composer and organist Samuel Scheidt ( 1587 – 1654 ) was both born and spent the majority of his life and career in Halle.

Samuel ScheidtSamuel Scheidt ( baptized 3 November 1587 – 24 March 1654 ) was a German composer, organist and teacher of the early Baroque era.

The earliest musical application of this Greek term was only in 1587, on the title-page of a parody mass by the German composer Jakob Paix, as the equivalent of the previously usual Latin expressions missa ad imitationem or missa super …, which were used to acknowledge the source of borrowed musical material.

* John Black ( composer ) ( c. 1520 – 1587 ), Scottish singer and composer