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Born in 1559

23 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Nurhaci

    monarch

    1559–1626 · aged 67

    February 21 · 1559

    No external source identified

  2. Ishida Mitsunari

    samurai

    1559–1600

    1559

    No external source identified

  3. Amar Singh I

    1559–1620 · aged 60

    March 16 · 1559

    No external source identified

  4. George Chapman

    poet, translator

    1559–1634

    1559

    Source: BnF authorities

  5. Matsudaira Nobuyasu

    samurai

    1559–1579 · aged 20

    April 23 · 1559

    No external source identified

  6. Ōtani Yoshitsugu

    samurai

    1559–1600

    1559

    Source: wiki.samurai-archives.com

  7. Lawrence of Brindisi

    Catholic theologian, Catholic priest

    1559–1619 · aged 59

    August 1 · 1559

    Source: BeWeB

  8. Catherine de Bourbon

    aristocrat, writer

    1559–1604 · aged 44

    February 17 · 1559

    No external source identified

  9. Isaac Casaubon

    classical philologist, writer

    1559–1614 · aged 55

    February 28 · 1559

    No external source identified

  10. Antonio de Morga

    civil servant, historian

    1559–1636 · aged 76

    December 9 · 1559

    No external source identified

  11. Justinus van Nassau

    admiral, governor

    1559–1631

    1559

    Source: Biografisch Portaal

  12. Cigoli

    painter, sculptor

    1559–1613

    October 2 · 1559

    No external source identified

  13. Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau

    writer, archbishop

    1559–1617 · aged 57

    April 5 · 1559

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  14. Kanō Sanraku

    painter

    1559–1635

    1559

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  15. Albert VII, Archduke of Austria

    military personnel, ruler

    1559–1621

    November 23 · 1559

    Source: Biografisch Portaal

  16. Shō Ei

    1559–1588

    1559

    No external source identified

  17. Countess Palatine Barbara of Zweibrücken-Neuburg

    countess, alchemist

    1559–1618 · aged 58

    July 27 · 1559

    No external source identified

  18. Sofia Johansdotter (Gyllenhielm)

    lady-in-waiting

    1559–1583

    1559

    No external source identified

  19. Stanisław Radziwiłł

    politician

    1559–1599 · aged 39

    May 22 · 1559

    Source: Urzędnicy Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego. Spisy, t. III, Księstwo Żmudzkie XV‒XVII…

  20. Jacques de Sirmond

    Catholic theologian, Catholic priest

    1559–1651 · aged 91

    October 22 · 1559

    Source: BnF authorities

  21. Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola

    chronicler, historian

    1559–1613 · aged 53

    December 24 · 1559

    Source: Spanish Biographical Dictionary

  22. Gregorio Pagani

    painter

    1559–1605 · aged 46

    July 24 · 1559

    Source: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani

  23. Philip II, Margrave of Baden-Baden

    ruler

    1559–1588 · aged 29

    March 1 · 1559

    Source: Integrated Authority File

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