1564 in literature

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Events

• Ivan Fyodorov prints the Acts and Epistles of the Apostles, the first printed work in the Russian language that can be dated.

New books

• John Dee - Monas Hieroglyphica
• Magdeburg Centuries, volumes VII and VIII
• Girolamo Maggi - Miscellanorum, seu Variarum Lectionum

Poetry

• See 1564 in poetry

Births

• February - Christopher Marlowe, poet and dramatist (d. 1593)
• March 9 - David Fabricius, theologian (d. 1617)
• April - William Shakespeare, poet and dramatist (d. 1616)

Deaths

• March 5 - Friedrich Staphylus, theologian (b. 1512)
• May 27 - John Calvin, theologian (b. 1509)
• September 26 - Theodor Bibliander, theologian and publisher (b. c. 1505) (plague)