ON THIS DAY
Born in 1542
32 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Mary, Queen of Scots
queen consort, sovereign
- Akbar
monarch
- Mariam-uz-Zamani Sahi Begum
consort
- John of the Cross
poet, mystic
- Robert Bellarmine
theologian, librarian
- Isabella de' Medici
aristocrat
- Esmé Stewart, 1st Duke of Lennox
politician
- Jan Zamoyski
chancellor, diplomat
- Richard Grenville
sailor, military officer
- John Speed
map maker, cartographer
- Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter
politician
- Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira
navigator, explorer
- Hayyim ben Joseph Vital
author, scholar
- Joris Hoefnagel
painter, illuminator
- Henriette of Cleves
lady-in-waiting, aristocrat
- Kuki Yoshitaka
samurai, military personnel
- Magnus, Duke of Östergötland
aristocrat
- Giovanni Leonardo Di Bona
lawyer, chess player
- John Frederick, Duke of Pomerania
Catholic priest
- Diogo do Couto
chronicler, historian
- William II de La Marck
pirate
- Tarquinia Molza
writer, musician
- Anders Sørensen Vedel
priest, historian
- Scipione Gonzaga
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Frans Francken I
painter
- Gioseffo Guami
organist, composer
- Felice Riccio
painter
- Willem Canter
translator, classical philologist