Year 1560 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events of 1560
Undated
Births
- January 17 - Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (d. 1624)
- March 8 - Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer and murderer (d. 1613)
- June 25 - Wilhelm Fabry, German surgeon (d. 1634)
- August 7 - Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian serial killer (d. 1614)
- August 10 - Hieronymus Praetorius, German composer (d. 1629)
- September 11 - Krystyna Radziwiłł, Polish noblewoman (d. 1580)
- October 10 - Jacobus Arminius, Dutch theologian (d. 1609)
- November 3 - Annibale Carracci, Italian painter (d. 1609)
- December 3 - Jan Gruter, Dutch critic and scholar (d. 1627)
- Felice Anerio, Italian composer (died 1614)
- Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, Polish military commander (d. 1621)
- Dominicus Corea, King of Kotte of Ceylon (d. 1596)
- James Crichton, Scottish scholar (d. 1582)
- Lieven de Key, Dutch architect (d. 1627)
- Hector MacLean of Dowart, Scottish Lord of the Clan MacLean (d. 1630)
- Ishida Mitsunari, Japanese samurai (d. 1600)
- Niall Garve O'Donnell, Irish nobleman (d. 1626)
- Katarzyna Ostrogska, Polish noblewoman (d. 1579)
- John Owen, epigrammatist (d. 1622)
- Anton Praetorius, German pastor (d. 1613)
- See also Category: 1560 births.
Deaths
- January 1 - Joachim du Bellay, French poet (b. c. 1522)
- February 7 - Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Florentine sculptor (b. 1493)
- February 16 - Jean du Bellay, French cardinal and diplomat (b. c. 1493)
- April 19 - Philipp Melanchthon, German humanist and reformer (b. 1497)
- June 11 - Mary of Guise, queen of James V of Scotland and regent (b. 1515)
- June 12 - Imagawa Yoshimoto, Japanese daimyo (b. 1519)
- June 12 - Ii Naomori, Japanese warrior (b. 1506)
- August 4 - Maeda Toshimasa, Japanese samurai (b. ?)
- August 7 - Anastasia of Russia, wife Tsar Ivan the Terrible
- September 8 - Amy Robsart, English noblewoman (b. 1536)
- September 29 - King Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1496)
- September 30 - Melchior Cano, Spanish theologian (b. 1525)
- November 25 - Andrea Doria, Italian naval commander (b. 1466)
- December 5 - King Francis II of France (b. 1544)
- Jan Laski, Polish Protestant evangelical reformer (b. 1499)
- John Sheppard, English composer and organist (b. 1515)
- See also Category: 1560 deaths.
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