10th » After a Siege of Smerwick three-day siege, the Kingdom of England English Army decapitation beheads over 600 Papal States Papal soldiers and civilians at Ard na Caithne Dún an Óir, Ireland.
Famous Deaths for November 1580
3rd » Jerónimo Zurita y Castro, Spanish historian and author (b. 1512)
30th » Richard Farrant, English playwright and composer (b. 1530)