* 1590 – John White, the governor of the Roanoke Colony, returns from a supply trip to England and finds his settlement deserted.

* 1590 – Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier ( d. 1649 )

Ahmed I ( Ottoman Turkish: احمد اول Aḥmed-i evvel, ) or Ahmed Bakhti ( April 18, 1590 – November 22, 1617 ) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1603 until his death in 1617.

* 1524 – François Hotman, French lawyer and writer ( d. 1590 )

* 1590 – Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle.

* 1590 – Ahmed I, Ottoman Emperor ( d. 1617 )

* 1521 – Pope Urban VII ( d. 1590 )

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 ).

* Dario Castello ( c. 1590 – c.

* 1590 – Niccolò Sfondrati becomes Pope Gregory XIV.

* 1640 – Miguel de Vasconcelos, last Secretary of State of the Kingdom of Portugal, during the Iberian Union ( b. c. 1590 )

* 1521 – Pope Sixtus V ( d. 1590 )

Sir Francis Walsingham, Secretary of State ( England ) | Principal Secretary 1573 – 1590.

Born in Boston, Colony of Massachusetts, to David Yale ( 1613 – 1690 ) and Ursula Knight ( 1624 – 1698 ), Yale was the grandson of Ann Lloyd ( 1591 – 1659 ), who after the death of her first husband, Thomas Yale ( 1590 – 1619 ) in Chester, Cheshire, England, married Governor Theophilus Eaton ( 1590 – 1658 ) of New Haven Colony.

* 1543 – Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter ( d. 1590 )

Gioseffo Zarlino ( 31 January or 22 March 1517 – 4 February 1590 ) was an Italian music theorist and composer of the Renaissance.

* Gioseffo Zarlino ( 1517 – 1590 )

In 1588 he became assistant maestro di cappella at St. Mark's, while Zarlino was still alive ( whether because of reconcilement or politics is not clear ), and in 1590 he took over the post of his former antagonist, holding it until his death in 1603.

* 1590 – Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana, Italian singer, organist, and composer ( d. 1662 )

* April 23 – Catherine of Ricci, Italian prioress ( d. 1590 )

** Lodovico Agostini, Italian composer ( d. 1590 )

* D. Posner: Annibale Carracci: a study in the reform of Italian painting around 1590, 2 vol., New York 1971.

* Giovanni Battista Zupi, Italian astronomer ( born c. 1590 )

The term bandit ( introduced to English via Italian around 1590 ) originates with the early Germanic legal practice of outlawing criminals, termed * bannan ( English ban ).

Simon Vouet ( 9 January 1590 – 30 June 1649 ) was a French painter and draftsman, who today is perhaps best remembered for helping to introduce the Italian Baroque style of painting to France.

* Vincentio Saviolo ( 1590 ) ( Italian )

Dario Castello ( c. 1590 – c. 1658 ) was an Italian composer and instrumentalist from the early Baroque period who worked and published in Venice.

Lodovico Agostini ( 1534 – September 20, 1590 ) was an Italian composer, singer, priest, and scholar of the late Renaissance.

Maddalena Casulana ( c. 1544 – c. 1590 ) was an Italian composer, lutenist and singer of the late Renaissance.

The Italian confidence man Marco Bragadino who was promising to make copious amounts of gold to erase the Dukes's debts was called upon by William V in 1590, and executed after he had failed.

* Year 1590 was the approximate peak year of the late Italian madrigal style, as represented by Gesualdo, Luzzaschi, Monteverdi, Marenzio, Monte and others.

Giovanni Battista Zupi or Zupus ( c. 1590 – 1650 ) was an Italian astronomer, mathematician, and Jesuit priest.

Girolamo Zanchi ( Latin " Hieronymus Zanchius ," thus Anglicized to " Jerome Zanchi / Zanchius ") ( February 2, 1516 – November 19, 1590 ) was an Italian Protestant Reformation clergyman and educator.

** Jacopo Barbello, Italian painter ( born 1590 )

Petruchio ( an anglicisation of the Italian name Petruccio ; ) is the male romantic lead in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew ( c. 1590 – 1594 ).

* Domenico Poggini, Italian sculptor ( died 1590 )

* Daniele Crespi ( 1590 – 1630 ), an Italian painter

* 1590 – Carlo Gesualdo, composer, Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, murders his wife, Donna Maria d ' Avalos, and her lover Fabrizio Carafa, the Duke of Andria at the Palazzo San Severo in Naples.

Fabrizio Carafa is also the man found in flagrante delicto with the composer Don Carlo Gesualdo's wife, both of whom were killed by Gesualdo's own hand in one of music history's most famous murders ( 1590 ).

* Bartholomaeus Praetorius ( c. 1590 – 1623 ), composer and cornettist

* Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, ( c. 1590 – 1664 ), Mexican composer

Adam Jarzębski ( born Warka, c. 1590 ; died Warsaw, c. 1648 ) was an early Baroque Polish composer, violinist, poet, and writer.