Jan 29 Louise de Lorraine, Queen consort of France (1575-89), dies at 47 Feb 25 Robert Devereux, English 2nd Earl of Essex, executed for treason against Elizabeth I at 35 Apr 10 Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet (Sonnet of Venus and Cupid), dies at 39 Aug 9 Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1558) Aug 19 Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia and Moldovia (Romanian national hero), assassinated at 42 or 43 Tycho Brahe Oct 24 Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer, dies in Prague at 54 Astronomer Tycho Brahe 1600 Deaths in History by Year 1602
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