Date | Event |
---|---|
Feb 9 |
Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai (d. 1611) |
Feb 14 |
Christianus Adrichomius, Dutch priest/writer (Vita Jesu Christi) |
Feb 28 |
Michel de Montaigne, France, essayist/philosopher |
Feb 28 |
Michel de Montaigne, The Time of Love |
Apr 8 |
Claudio Merulo, organist/composer |
Apr 24 |
William I of Orange (d. 1584) |
Jun 24 |
Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester/English commander-in-chief in Neth |
Aug 2 |
Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (d. 1588) |
Aug 7 |
Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque soldier and poet (d. 1595) |
Sep 7 |
Queen Elizabeth I, Greenwich, England, (1558-1603) daughter of Henry VIII and Anna Boleyn (d. 1603) |
Sep 15 |
Catherine of Austria, queen consort of Poland and Lithuania (d. 1572) |
Dec 13 |
Erik XIV Wasa, king of Sweden (1560-69) |
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