people/1560s

English Roman Catholic priest and martyr

16th-century English dramatist, poet, and translator

English traveller and adventurer

German physician and alchemist (1569–1611)

Irish Franciscan and theologian

Italian Jesuit seminarian and saint (1568–1591)

French aristocrat and military officer

English politician

Czech nobleman (1567–1640)

Norwegian priest (1561–1616)

Doge of Venice from 1631 to 1646

Italian painter

Irish clan chief and soldier (1560–1618)

Italian Cardinal (1569–1646)

Dutch Roman Catholic polemical writer

English Roman Catholic convert, Jesuit missioner and preacher

German count and military theorist (1561–1623)

Italian cardinal and bishop

English House of Commons politician

French Sculptor (1567-1612)

Italian artist

Bohemian physician, politician and philosopher

English Protestant reformer and Marian exile

Sixteenth and seventeenth century English member of Parliament

Member of the Parliament of England

English mathematician and astrologer

Scottish bishop (16th century)

English nobleman convicted of plotting the assassination of Elizabeth I of England

16th and 17th-century English poet, playwright, and religious writer

Member of the Parliament of England

First white child born in the contiguous U.S.

English poet (1563–1618)

English Puritan clergyman and scholar

Sengoku period Samurai and Daimyo (1564–1651)