Short answers, pulled from the story.
John Dowland died in London on the 20th of February 1626 and was buried at St Ann's, Blackfriars. His final payment from the royal court had been made on the 20th of January that same year, leaving a month of silence before his burial.
The exact date and place of John Dowland's birth remain subjects of historical debate, with some sources placing it in London in 1563 while Irish historian W. H. Grattan Flood claimed he was born in Dalkey, near Dublin. The only tangible evidence linking him to Ireland is a dedication in his song From Silent Night to my loving countryman Mr. John Forster the younger, a merchant of Dublin from a prominent family that provided several Lord Mayors to the city.
John Dowland claimed his conversion to Roman Catholicism prevented him from securing the post when a vacancy for a lutenist opened at the English court in 1594. This religious conversion cast a long shadow over his career, as he returned to England around 1584 and married, only to face rejection despite other Catholic musicians like William Byrd managing to thrive at Queen Elizabeth I's Protestant court.
John Dowland created a body of work that seems to sum up his life in the punning title Semper Dowland, semper dolens, meaning always Dowland, always doleful. This title reflects the profound, almost pathological melancholy that permeated his work, which became the sonic embodiment of sorrow for centuries.
John Dowland's First Booke of Songes or Ayres was published in 1597 and is one of the most influential collections in the history of the lute. The collection contains 21 lute-songs and one piece for two people to play on one lute, My Lord Chamberlaine, His Galliard.
John Dowland influenced modern musicians through recordings by figures such as Alfred Deller, Julian Bream, Nigel North, Paul O'Dette, and Sting, who released Songs from the Labyrinth in October 2006. His music inspired works like Benjamin Britten's Nocturnal after John Dowland written in 1963 and was adapted for the film Sense and Sensibility in 1995 by Patrick Doyle.