ON THIS DAY
Born in 1520
45 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
baron, minister
- Sigismund II Augustus
statesperson
- Barbara Radziwiłł
aristocrat
- Alessandro Farnese
diplomat, Catholic priest
- Sinan the Great
politician, military leader
- Filippa Duci
royal mistress, lady-in-waiting
- Vincenzo Galilei
musicologist, violinist
- Diego de Almagro II
explorer, military personnel
- Dorothea of Denmark, Electress Palatine
aristocrat
- Joseph Nasi
banker, financial adviser
- Moses Isserles
rabbi, Posek
- Aben Humeya
monarch
- Jean Ribault
seafarer, sailor
- Christophe Plantin
type designer, bookbinder
- Matthias Flacius
historian, theologian
- Appayya Dikshita
philosopher
- Thoinot Arbeau
choreographer, writer
- Isabella di Morra
writer, poet
- Pedro Ponce de León
teacher, Latin Catholic monk
- Girolamo Cassar
military engineer, architect
- Vicente Lusitano
music theorist, composer
- Salvador of Horta
lay brother
- Gaspar da Cruz
missionary, monk
- Francisco Barreto
explorer, soldier
- Per Brahe the Elder
diplomat, politician
- Bernardino Campi
painter
- Frederick III of Legnica
feudatory
- Fernão Vaz Dourado
cartographer
- Natalis Comes
mythographer, translator
- Giorgio Ghisi
painter, printmaker
- Gaspar Becerra
sculptor, painter
- Wacław of Szamotuły
concertmaster, composer
- Peder Oxe
politician
- Cornelis van Cleve
painter, draftsperson
- Gutierre de Cetina
writer, military personnel
- Pernette Du Guillet
writer, poet
- Augustinus Rotundus
historian, politician
- Denis Lambin
classical scholar, hellenist
- David Kandel
painter, printmaker
- Giacomo del Duca
architect, landscape architect
- Pedro de Deza
Catholic priest, jurist
- Noël du Fail
jurist, judge
- Mechtelt van Lichtenberg
painter
- Georg Hund von Wenkheim
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