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Born in 1550
60 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Charles IX of France
sovereign
- John Napier
astronomer, inventor
- Charles IX of Sweden
monarch
- Man Singh I
monarch
- Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
poet, writer
- Chief Powhatan
politician
- Camillus de Lellis
founder of Catholic religious community, Catholic priest
- Stanislaus Kostka
Catholic theologian, Catholic seminarian
- Karin Månsdotter
queen regnant
- Marie Eleonore of Cleves
aristocrat
- John Davis
seafarer, discoverer
- Nicholas Owen
carpenter
- Giorgio Basta
general field marshal, non-fiction writer
- Mian Mir
mystic, Sufi
- Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia
soldier, military officer
- Sarsa Dengel
monarch
- Damat Ibrahim Pasha
poet, statesperson
- Philip Henslowe
impresario, diarist
- Thomas Helwys
lawyer, theologian
- Jacobus Gallus
singer, composer
- John I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken
genealogist
- Tang Xianzu
playwright, writer
- Michael Maestlin
astrologer, astronomer
- Margaret Ward
politician
- Emilio de' Cavalieri
diplomat, dancer
- Cesare Cremonini
philosopher
- Charles II de Cossé, Duke of Brissac
soldier, military officer
- Francisco Sanches
mathematician, physician
- Anne of Saint Bartholomew
nun, writer
- Charles de Ligne
military personnel, Fürst
- Orazio Vecchi
composer
- Joachim Frederick of Brieg
aristocrat
- Anselmus Boetius de Boodt
jurist, naturalist
- Henry of Nassau-Dillenburg
military personnel
- Giulio Cesare Croce
playwright, poet
- Jean Beguin
chemist
- Giovanni de Macque
composer, organist
- Philip of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein
military officer
- Mikołaj Zieleński
composer
- Juan de la Cueva de Garoza
playwright, writer
- Jean Robin
pharmacist, botanist
- Hubert Gerhard
sculptor
- Georgios Chortatzis
writer, playwright
- Nikolaus Krell
jurist, politician
- Wendel Dietterlin
printmaker, painter
- Lodewijk Toeput
painter, visual artist
- Enrico Caetani
legatus, Catholic priest
- Ivan Vyshensky
prose writer, opinion journalist
- Matthijs Bril the Younger
designer, draftsperson
- Gu Xiancheng
politician, teacher
- Antonio Zapata y Cisneros
High Inquisitor, Catholic priest
- Hendrik van Steenwijk I
painter
- Lavrentii Zyzanii
cleric, grammarian
- Ambrogio Doria
politician
- Cristóbal de Virués
writer, poet
- Domenico Ginnasi
Catholic bishop, bishop
- François d'Amboise
poet, writer
- Simeone Tagliavia d'Aragonia
Catholic priest