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| align="center" colspan=2 | 1530s 1540s - 1550s ''' - 1560s 1570s 1580s
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Events
Births
- September 9 - Philippe Emmanuel, Duke Of Mercoeur , French soldier (d. 1602 )
- October 12 - Archduke Maximilian III Of Austria (died 1618 )
- François, Prince Of Conti (died 1614 )
- Hendrik Goltzius , Dutch painter (died 1617 )
- Robert Greene , English writer (died 1592 )
- Thomas Kyd , English playwright (died 1594 )
- Meir Lublin , Polish rabbi (died 1616 )
- Koriki Masanaga , Japanese military commander (died 1599 )
- Pierre Dugua, Sieur De Monts , French merchant (died 1628 )
- Bessho Nagaharu , Japanese nobleman
- Oda Nobutaka , Japanese nobleman
- Olivier Van Noort , first Dutchman to circumnavigate the world (died 1627 )
- George Peele , English dramatist (died 1598 )
- Chidiock Tichborne , English conspirator and poet (died 1586 )
- Tokuhime , Japanese noblewoman
- Mihai Viteazul , Prince of Wallachia (1593-1601)
''See also .''
Deaths
- February 25 - Eleonore Of Austria , Queen of Portugal and France (born 1498 )
- March 25 - Marcos De Niza , French Franciscan explorer
- April 18 - Roxelana , wife of Suleiman The Magnificent
- April 20 - Johannes Bugenhagen , German reformer (born 1485 )
- May 31 - Philip Hoby , English politician (born 1505 )
- September 21 - Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1500 )
- October 18 - Maria Of Austria , queen of Louis II Of Hungary And Bohemia (b. 1505 )
- October 21 - Julius Caesar Scaliger , Italian scholar (born 1484 )
- November 17 - Queen Mary I Of England (born 1516 )
- November 17 - Reginald Cardinal Pole , Archbishop Of Canterbury (b. 1500 )
- December 15 - Thomas Cheney , Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
- December 28 - Hermann Finck , German composer (born 1527 )
- Archibald Campbell, 4th Earl Of Argyll , Scottish nobleman and politician (born 1507 )
- Hugh Aston , English composer (born 1485 )
- Jean Fernel , French physician (born 1497 )
- Robert Recorde , Welsh physician and mathematician (born 1510 )
- Francisco De Sa De Miranda , Portuguese poet (born 1485 )
- Mellin De Saint-Gelais , French poet (born ca. 1490 )
''See also .''
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