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Year 1568 was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar .
Events of 1568
Undated
Births
February 11 - Honoré d'Urfé , French writer (d. 1625 )
March 9 - Aloysius Gonzaga , Italian Jesuit and saint (d. 1591 )
April - Pope Urban VIII (d. 1644 )
September 3 - Adriano Banchieri , Italian composer (d. 1634 )
September 5 - Tommaso Campanella , Italian theologian and poet (d. 1639 )
date unknown
Nikolaus Ager , French botanist (d. 1634 )
John Welsh of Ayr , Scottish Presbyterian leader
Barnabe Barnes , English poet (d. 1609 )
Teodosio II, Duke of Braganza (d. 1630 )
Luisa Carvajal y Mendoza , Spanish religious leader (d. 1614 )
Edward Chichester, 1st Viscount Chichester (d. 1648 )
Marino Ghetaldi , Ragusan scientist (d. 1626 )
Nakagawa Hidemasa , Japanese military leader (d. 1592 )
Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxochitl , Mexican historian (d. 1648 )
Gervase Markham , English poet and writer (d. 1637 )
Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester (d. 1628 )
Henry Wotton , English author and diplomat (d. 1639 )
Wei Zhongxian , Grand Secretary of China (d. 1627 )
See also Category: 1568 births .
Deaths
January 15 - Catherine Carey , Chief Lady of the Bedchamber to Elizabeth I of England (b. c. 1526 )
January 20 - Myles Coverdale , English Bible translator (b. c. 1488 )
January 21 - Amato Lusitano , Portuguese physician (b. 1511 )
January 26 - Lady Catherine Grey , Countess of Hertford (b. 1539 )
March 20 - Duke Albert of Prussia (b. 1490 )
May 23 - Jean de Ligne, Duke of Aremberg (b. 1528 )
June 3 - Andrés de Urdaneta , Spanish Friar (b. 1498 )
June 5
July 7 - William Turner , British ornithologist and botanist (b. 1508 )
July 24 - Don Carlos of Spain , son of Philip II of Spain (b. 1545 )
August 23 - Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton (b. 1495 )
September 22 - Jöran Persson , Swedish politician (b. c. 1530 ) (executed)
October 3 - Elizabeth of Valois , Queen of Philip II of Spain (b. 1545 )
October 14 - Jacques Arcadelt , Flemish composer (b. 1504 )
October 28 - Ashikaga Yoshihide , Japanese shogun (b. 1538 )
December 23 - Roger Ascham , tutor of Elizabeth I of England (b. 1515 )
December 31 - Shimazu Tadayoshi , Japanese warlord (b. 1493 )
date unknown
See also Category: 1568 deaths .