May 31 Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich, England, to Frobisher Bay, Canada. Eventually mines fools gold, famously used to pave the streets of London.
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May 16 Everard Digby, English conspirator (d. 1606)
May 30 Valentin Dretzel, German composer, born in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany) (d. 1658)
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