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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1584.

Events

Master Thomas Giles takes charge of the Children of Paul's, a company of boy actors. This is the start of a close association with the works of John Lyly.^[1]
London printer John Twyn is hanged, drawn and quartered for producing an edition of Gregory Martin's Catholic A Treatise of Schisme (1578).^[2]

Giordano Bruno – La Cena de le Ceneri (Ash Wednesday Supper)^[3]
John Dee – 48 Claves angelicae (48 Angelic Keys, written in Kraków)^[4]
James VI of Scotland – Some Reulis and Cautelis to be observit and eschewit in Scottis poesie
David Powel – The Historie of Cambria, now called Wales (first printed history of Wales)^[5]
Reginald Scot – The Discoverie of Witchcraft
Richard Stanihurst – De rebus in Hibernia gestis (Of matters in the history of Ireland)
Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer – Spiegel der Zeevaerdt (Mariners' Mirror, English 1588, Latin 1591)

May – André Duchesne, French geographer and historian (died 1640)
August 29 – Patrick Young, Scottish scholar and royal librarian (died 1652)
September 15 – Georg Rudolf Weckherlin, German poet (died 1653)
December 16 – John Selden, English polymath (died 1654)
unknown dates
- Francis Beaumont, English dramatist and poet (died 1616)^[6]
- Anna Ovena Hoyer, German/Swedish poet (died 1655)
- Hu Zhengyan, Chinese artist, printmaker, calligrapher and publisher (died 1674)

February 18 – Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian prose writer (born 1503)^[7]
March 10 – Thomas Norton, English lawyer, politician and poet (born 1532)
June 13 – János Zsámboky, Hungarian humanist, philologist and historian (born 1531)^[8]
July 23 – John Day, English Protestant printer (born c. 1522)
August 12 – Carolus Sigonius, Italian humanist writer (born c. 1524)^[9]
November 21 – Turrianus, Spanish Jesuit Hellenist and polemicist (born c. 1509)^[10]
unknown dates
- Stephen Batman, English translator (date of birth unknown)
- Gerhard Dorn, Flemish philosopher, translator and polymath (born c. 1530)
- Alonso Gutiérrez, Spanish philosopher (born c. 1507)^[11]

^ Chambers, E. K. The Elizabethan Stage. vol. 2, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1923.
^ Mullan, John (2007). Anonymity. London: Faber. p. 141. ISBN 978-0-571-19514-5.
^ A Bibliographical Catalogue of Italian Books Printed in England, 1558-1603. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. 2009. p. 261. ISBN 978-0-7546-6373-7.
^ Nicholas Clulee (15 February 2013). John Dee's Natural Philosophy: Between Science and Religion. Routledge. p. 306. ISBN 978-1-136-18306-5.
^ Caradoc (of Llancarvan) (1969). The Historie of Cambria. Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.
^ William Worthen Appleton (1956). Beaumont and Fletcher. CUP Archive. pp. 9=.
^ Charles Dudley Warner (1 July 2008). A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol.XLII. Cosimo, Inc. p. 231. ISBN 978-1-60520-248-8.
^ Jacob Soll, The information master: Jean-Baptiste Colbert's secret state intelligence system, University of Michigan Press, 2009, p.26 [1]
^ Timperley (C. H.) (1839). A Dictionary of Printers and Printing, with the Progress of Literature, Ancient and Modern; Bibliographical Illustrations. Johnson. p. 380.
^ Journal of Theological Studies. Clarendon Press. 1914. p. 53.
^ Clarence A. Liederbach (1977). Mexico's Bishops. Bona Ventura Press. p. 74.