4th » John Cotton (minister) e.g John Cotton, English-American minister and theologian (d. 1652)
13th » William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (d. 1649)
31st » Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba (1585–1645) or Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general and politician, 24th Governor of the Duchy of Milan (d. 1645)
Famous Deaths for December 1585
4th » John Willock, Scottish minister and reformer (b. 1515)