Date | Event |
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Feb 24 |
Jan of Austria, Spanish military man/land guardian of the Netherland |
Mar 1 |
Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (d. 1628) |
Apr 13 |
Elisabeth of Valois, daughter of King Henry II of France and 3rd wife of Philip II of Spain (d. 1568) |
May 20 |
Melchior Bischoff, composer |
Jun 28 |
Cristofano Malvezzi, composer |
Sep 14 |
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch Grand Pensionary |
Sep 16 |
Abu al-Faiz ibn Mubarak Faizi, Persian-Dutch East Indies poet |
Sep 22 |
Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (d. 1590) |
Sep 29 |
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish author and novelist (Don Quixote), (d. 1616) |
Oct 18 |
Justus Lipsius, [Joost Lips], Dutch classic philologist/historian |
Nov 12 |
Claude of Valois, French princess (d. 1575). 2nd daughter of King Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici. |
Dec 5 |
Ubbo Emmius, [van Embden], Dutch-Frisian humanist/historian |
29 |
Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra, Don Quixote |
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