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| align="center" colspan=2 | 1530s 1540s - 1550s ''' - 1560s 1570s 1580s
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Events
Births
- January 22 - Mori Terumoto , Japanese warrior (d. 1625 )
- May 14 - Margaret Of Valois , queen of Henry IV Of France (died 1615 )
- July 15 - Archduke Ernest Of Austria (died 1595 )
- November 23 - Prospero Alpini , Italian physician and botanist (died 1617 )
- December 13 - King Henry IV Of France (died 1610 )
- Patriarch Filaret Of Moscow And All Rus' (died 1633 )
- Giovanni Florio , English writer and translator (died 1625 )
- Albert Frederick , duke of Prussia (died 1618 )
- Jasper Heywood , English translator of Seneca (died 1598 )
- Amago Katsuhisa , Japanese nobleman (died 1578 )
- Luca Marenzio , Italian composer (died 1599 )
- Pierre De Rostegny , French jurist (died 1631 )
- William Russell, 1st Baron Russell Of Thornhaugh , English military leader (died 1613 )
- Mori Terumoto , Japanese nobleman
- Jacques Auguste De Thou , French historian (died 1617 )
''See also .''
Deaths
- February 19 - Erasmus Reinhold , German astronomer and mathematician (born 1511 )
- February 25 - Hirate Masahide , Japanese diplomat and tutor of Oda Nobunaga (suicide) (born 1492 )
- April 9 - François Rabelais , French writer
- July 6 - King Edward VI Of England (born 1537 )
- July 9 - Maurice, Elector Of Saxony (b. 1521 )
- August 22 - John Dudley, 1st Duke Of Northumberland (born 1501 )
- October 7 - Cristóbal De Morales , Spanish composer (born 1500 )
- October 16 - Lucas Cranach The Elder , German painter (born 1472 )
- October 27 - Michael Servetus , Spanish theologian (burned at the stake) (born 1511 )
- October 30 - Jacob Sturm Von Sturmeck , German statesman and reformer (born 1489 )
- Johannes Aal , Swiss theologian (born 1500 )
- Erasmus Alberus , German humanist (born 1500 )
- John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners , English historian and translator (born 1467 )
- Girolamo Fracastoro , Italian physician (born 1478 )
''See also .''
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