Classical music

• Manuel Rodrigues Coelho
  Manuel Rodrigues Coelho
  Manuel Rodrigues Coelho was a Portuguese organist and composer. He is the first important Iberian keyboard composer since Cabezón....
  
   - Flores de musica pera o instrumento de tecla & harpa
• Michelangolo Galilei – Il primo libro d'intavolatura di liuto

Births

• September 6 – Isabella Leonarda
  Isabella Leonarda
  Isabella Leonarda was an Italian composer from Novara. At the age of 16, she entered the Collegio di Sant'Orsola, an Ursuline convent, where she stayed for the remainder of her life...
  
  , composer (d. 1704)
• probable – Adam Drese
  Adam Drese
  Adam Drese was a German composer and bass viol player. He was appointed Kapellmeister to Duke Wilhelm IV of Saxe-Weimar in 1652, but in 1662, after the death of the duke, the Capelle was disbanded and Drese sought a similar position with Duke Bernhard at Jena...
  
  , bass viol player and composer (d. 1701)

Deaths

• March 1 – Thomas Campion
  Thomas Campion
  Thomas Campion was an English composer, poet and physician. He wrote over a hundred lute songs; masques for dancing, and an authoritative technical treatise on music.-Life:...
  
  , composer and poet (born 1567)
• March 25 – Johannes Nucius
  Johannes Nucius
  Johannes Nucius was a German composer and music theorist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras...
  
  , composer and music theorist (born c. 1556)
• August 2 – Carolus Luython
  Carolus Luython
  Carolus Luython, or French: Charles Luython, was a late composer of the "fifth generation" of the Franco-Flemish school.Luython was born in Antwerp, and was recruited as a child to serve in the choir of Maximilian II in Vienna...
  
  , composer (born 1557)
• date unknown
  • Thomas Adams
    Thomas Adams (publisher)
    Thomas Adams was an English publisher. Born into a yeoman's family, he became an apprentice to Oliver Wilkes, a member of the Stationers' Company, on 29 September 1582; he was transferred to a new master, George Bishop, on 14 October 1583. Adams himself was admitted to the Company on 15 October 1583...
    
    , music publisher (born c. 1566)
  • Joachim van den Hove
    Joachim van den Hove
    Joachim van den Hove was a Flemish/Dutch composer and a lutenist. He composed works for lute solo and for lute and voice. Moreover, he wrote many arrangements for lute of Italian, French, and English vocal and instrumental music, and of Flemish/Dutch folk music.Van den Hove was born Antwerp, and...
    
    , composer (born c.1567)
• probable – Girolamo Belli
  Girolamo Belli
  Girolamo Belli was an Italian composer and music teacher of the late Renaissance. He was closely associated with the Ferrara School in the 1580s, having previously studied with Luzzasco Luzzaschi, and was noted for his composition of both madrigals and sacred music.- Life :Belli was born in...
  
  , composer and music teacher (born 1552)