people/1580s

English scholar and clergyman

English courtier and politician (1585–1631)

Doge of Venice from 1659 to 1675

Italian painter

Scottish minister (1584–1654)

English lawyer & politician (1582–1652)

English landowner and politician

English soldier, explorer and writer (1580–1631)

English clergyman, mathematician, geometer and astronomer

French Jesuit

Italian monk, missionary and writer

Dutch landscape painter (1587–1630)

English Roman Catholic priest and martyr

Spanish politician

English playwright (1584–1616)

Poet from Ragusa, in modern Croatia (1589–1638)

Spanish poet (1582–1622)

German landgravine (1587–1643)

Dutch Golden Age painter

16th-century English politician and patron

Flemish painter

German chronologist, historian, theologian and linguist

Dutch corsair and merchant (1587–1660)

English diplomat, soldier and politician

Portuguese Jesuit priest and missionary

Spanish diplomat and man of letters

Dutch painter (1588–1629)

French noblewoman (1585–1656)

Italian Catholic Cardinal

English priest

German artist (1580–1660)

French scholar (1582–1651)

Dutch poet and playwright (1585–1618)

Spanish Catholic cardinal (1581-1649)

Viceroy of Peru

Polish noble

English nobleman and literary patron (1586–1643)

German mathematician, logician and science philosopher

English politician (1582-1646)

German mathematician (1580–1635)