ON THIS DAY
Born in 1585
74 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Hamnet Shakespeare
writer
- Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu
diplomat, Catholic priest
- John Rolfe
explorer
- Squanto
interpreter, guide
- Heinrich Schütz
independent publisher, court chapel master
- Mary Ward
founder of Catholic religious community, pedagogue
- Anna of Tyrol
queen regnant
- John Cotton
Christian minister, writer
- Hendrick Avercamp
painter, visual artist
- Uriel da Costa
philosopher
- Cornelius Jansen
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel
diplomat, politician
- Giulio Cesare Vanini
philosopher, writer
- Edmund Arrowsmith
Latin Catholic priest
- Alexander of Montenegro
politician, impostor
- Ambrose Barlow
Catholic priest
- John Macias
friar
- Jacob Le Maire
explorer
- Alethea Howard, Countess of Arundel
art collector
- Johann Georg I, Elector of Saxony
military personnel
- Inoue Masashige
samurai, politician
- Pedro Teixeira
military personnel, explorer
- William Drummond of Hawthornden
historian, writer
- Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland
playwright, writer
- Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba
military personnel, military leader
- Melek Ahmed Paşa
writer, politician
- Henriette Catherine de Joyeuse
aristocrat
- Caspar Bartholin the Elder
university teacher, anatomist
- Massimo Stanzione
painter
- Federico Cesi
naturalist
- Jacques Lemercier
sculptor, graphic artist
- Alexander Whitaker
theologian, writer
- Jean Guiton
naval officer, politician
- Jacques Specx
politician
- William Rowley
actor, writer
- Domenico II Contarini
politician, statesperson
- Krzysztof Radziwiłł
civil servant, military commander
- Claude Favre de Vaugelas
lexicographer, grammarian
- Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero
playwright, writer
- Andrea Falconieri
lutenist, composer
- Livia della Rovere
aristocrat
- Johann Daniel Mylius
independent publisher, composer
- Evert Horn
writer, military leader
- Christian, Count of Waldeck-Wildungen
ruler, chamberlain
- Antonio Ruiz de Montoya
linguist, missionary
- Johann Heermann
poet, hymnwriter
- Jan Brożek
mathematician, poet
- Domenico Allegri
composer, cantor
- Rudolf von Colloredo
governor, politician
- Álvaro Semedo
missionary, writer
- Francesco Cornaro
politician
- Sisto Badalocchio
printmaker, painter
- Lan Ying
painter
- Francesco Fontana
printmaker, astronomer
- Hendrik Gerritsz Pot
painter, public employee
- Louis Cappel
university teacher, Hebraist
- Johann Baptist Cysat
mathematician, astronomer
- Pedro de Toledo, 1st Marquis of Mancera
military personnel, diplomat
- Vincenzo Carafa
monk, writer
- Piotr Gembicki
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Mogens Pedersøn
composer
- Giovanni Biliverti
painter
- Claude Mydorge
mathematician
- Catherine of Guise
aristocrat
- Melchior Inchofer
writer, theologian
- Marzio Ginetti
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Carlo Emanuele Pio di Savoia
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Domingo Pimentel Zúñiga
prelate