* 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.

* 1590 – Gioseffo Zarlino, Italian composer ( b. 1517 )

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

# Dorothea Sibylle ( 19 October 1590 – 9 March 1625 ), married in 1610 to Duke John Christian of Brieg

* John Nash ( MP ) ( 1590 – 1661 ), English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1640 and 1648

The word militia dates back to at least 1590 when it was recorded in a book by Sir John Smythe, Certain Discourses Military with the meanings: a military force ; a body of soldiers and military affairs ; a body of military discipline

* 1590 – John White, The governor of the second Roanoke Colony, returns to England after an unsuccessful search for the " lost " colonists.

Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, was abandoned in 1699 when Williamsburg became the new capital of the colony ; the Zwaanendael Colony became a ghost town in 1632, when every one of the colonists were massacred by Indians ; and in 1590, mapmaker John White arrived at the Roanoke Colony in North Carolina to find it deserted, its inhabitants having vanished without a trace.

Other possible sources are the anonymous play King Leir ( published in 1605 ); A Mirror for Magistrates ( 1574 ), by John Higgins ; The Malcontent ( 1604 ), by John Marston ; The London Prodigal ( 1605 ); Arcadia ( 1580 – 1590 ), by Sir Philip Sidney, from which Shakespeare took the main outline of the Gloucester subplot ; Montaigne's Essays, which were translated into English by John Florio in 1603 ; An Historical Description of Iland of Britaine, by William Harrison ; Remaines Concerning Britaine, by William Camden ( 1606 ); Albion's England, by William Warner, ( 1589 ); and A Declaration of egregious Popish Impostures, by Samuel Harsnett ( 1603 ), which provided some of the language used by Edgar while he feigns madness.

In 1590 he obtained the appointment of deputy Escheator to John Crofton, the Escheator-General.

Some possible influences can be found in the early plays of John Lyly, Robert Wilson's The Cobbler's Prophecy ( c. 1590 ) and Pierre de la Primaudaye's L ' Academie française ( 1577 ).

In 1590, they found the remnants of the colony purely by accident, but assumed it was only an outlying base of the main settlement, which they believed was in the Chesapeake Bay area ( John White's intended location ).

For example, Michael Taylor argues that there were at least thirty-nine history plays prior to 1592, including the two-part Christopher Marlowe play Tamburlaine ( 1587 ), Thomas Lodge's The Wounds of Civil War ( 1588 ), the anonymous The Troublesome Reign of King John ( 1588 ), Edmund Ironside ( 1590 – also anonymous ), Robert Green's Selimus ( 1591 ) and another anonymous play, The True Tragedy of Richard III ( 1591 ).

In the Chronicle of England 1590 John Stow writes, " To The Honorable Sir John Hart, Lord Maior, The Chronicle written before that nothing is perfect the first time, and that it is incident to mankinde to erre and slip sometimes, but the point of fantatical fooles to preserve and continue in their errors.

Owing to disputed appointments to the Mastership, Elizabeth I imposed the appointment of John Jegon as Master in 1590.

* Eleanor Tuchet ( 1590 – 1652 ), who married 1st: Sir John Davies, attorney of the king.

His descendant, another Sir Roger Townshend ( c. 1543 – 1590 ), had a son Sir John Townshend ( 1564 – 1603 ), a soldier, whose son, Roger Townshend, was created a baronet in 1617.

Johannes Crellius ( Polish: Jan Crell, English John Crell ) ( 26 July Hellmitzheim 1590 – Raków 1633 ) was a Polish and German theologian.

In 1590 John Underhill, Bishop of Oxford conveyed Stowe to Elizabeth I, who in the same year granted it to new secular owners.

Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, in his teens, c. 1590 – 93, attributed to John de Critz

* Sir John Skeffington, 2nd Baronet ( c. 1590 – 1651 ).

* John White ( Welsh politician ) ( 1590 – 1645 ), lawyer and MP for Southwark, 1640 – 1645

* Eva Christina ( 1590 – 1657 )-married John George of Brandenburg ( 1577 – 1624 ), Duke of Jägerndorf

John Spencer ( 1590 – 1610 )

The most prolonged of Cecil's surviving personal correspondences is with an Irish judge, Nicholas White, lasting from 1566 until 1590 ; it is contained in the State Papers Ireland 63 and Lansdowne MS. 102, but receives hardly a mention in the literature on Cecil.

Governor White finally reached Roanoke Island on August 18, 1590, his granddaughter's third birthday, but he found his colony had been long deserted.

White returned to Plymouth on October 24, 1590.

White landed on August 18, 1590, on his granddaughter's third birthday, but found the settlement deserted.

When John White returned in 1590 to Roanoke on a re-supply mission, the settlement was found empty, the only clue being the word " Croatoan " carved into the palasade of the fort.

John White, who made maps showing both Croatoan and Roanoke, wrote in 1590 "“ I greatly joyed that I had safely found a certain token of their safe being at Croatoan, which is the place where Manteo was born, and the savages of the island our friends.

* Thomas White ( died 1590 ), MP for Poole

Engraved in 1590 by Theodor de Bry after a 1585 watercolour by John White ( colonist and artist ) | John White.