Deaths
- 1590
- 1 February - Lawrence Humphrey, president of Magdalen College, Oxford (born 1527)
- 6 April - Francis Walsingham, principal secretary to Elizabeth I and spymaster (born 1530)
- 18 November - George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, statesman (born 1528)
- Roger Dudley, soldier (born 1535)
- 1591
- 1 May - Elizabeth Cecil, 16th Baroness de Ros, noblewoman (born c. 1574)
- 10 September - Richard Grenville, soldier and explorer (born 1542)
- 20 November - Christopher Hatton, politician (born 1540)
- John Stubbs, pamphleteer (born 1543)
- 1592
- February - Thomas Cavendish, sailor and explorer (born 1555)
- 3 September - Robert Greene, writer (born 1558)
- 1593
- 23 March - Henry Barrowe, Puritan and separatist (born 1550)
- 6 April - John Greenwood, Puritan and separatist (hanged) (year of birth unknown)
- 30 May - Christopher Marlowe, poet and playwright (born 1564)
- 25 September - Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby, Lord High Steward (born 1531)
- William Harrison, clergyman (born 1534)
- 1594
- 7 February - Barnabe Googe, poet (born 1540)
- 16 April - Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby, second in line to the throne (born 1531) (poisoned)
- 29 April - Thomas Cooper, bishop, lexicographer, and writer (born c. 1517)
- 3 June - John Aylmer, divine (born 1521)
- 16 July - Thomas Kyd, author of The Spanish Tragedy (born 1558)
- 16 October - William Allen, cardinal (born 1532)
- 22 November - Martin Frobisher, explorer (born 1535)
- John Johnson, lutenist and composer (born c. 1545)
- 1595
- February - William Painter, translator (born 1540)
- 21 February - Robert Southwell, Jesuit priest and poet (born 1561)
- 24 August - Thomas Digges, astronomer (born 1546)
- 19 October - Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel, nobleman (born 1537)
- 12 November - John Hawkins, shipbuilder and trader (born 1532)
- 14 December - Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon (born 1535)
- 1596
- 27 January - Sir Francis Drake, explorer and soldier (born 1540)
- 23 March - Henry Unton, diplomat (born 1557)
- 23 July - Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon (born 1526)
- 10 November - Peter Wentworth, Puritan politician (born 1530)
- 29 November
- William Gibson, Catholic martyr (year of birth unknown)
- William Knight, Catholic martyr (born 1572)
- Blanche Parry, Personal attendant to Elizabeth I (born c. 1508)
- Henry Willobie, poet (born 1575)
- 1597
- 6 June - William Hunnis, poet (year of birth unknown)
- James Burbage, actor (born 1531)
- Edward Kelley, spirit medium (born 1555)
- 1598
- 9 January - Jasper Heywood, classicist and translator (born 1553)
- 4 August - William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, statesman (born 1520)
- 1599
- 13 January - Edmund Spenser, poet (born 1552)
- 14 April - Henry Wallop, statesman (born c. 1540)
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