Apr 3 Giovanni Battista Massarengo, Italian composer, born in Parma, Italy (d. c.1596) Nov 16 Paul Sartorius, German composer, born in Nuremberg (d. 1609) Nov 27 Ottavio Vernizzi, Italian composer, born in Bologna, Papal State (d. 1649) Dec 18 Jakob Hassler, German composer, born in Nuremberg (d. 1622) Dec 30 Georg Quitschreiber, German composer, born in Kranichfeld, Electorate of Saxony (d. 1638) 1568 Birthdays in Music by Year 1570