Chronology of Notable Births

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Last updated: 2023 December 20.


1550

May 25
  • Birth of Camillus de Lellis Italian soldier/monastery founder/saint. [1]
June 27
  • Birth of Charles IX king of France (1560-74). [1]
December 6
  • Birth of Orazio Tiberio Vecchi composer. [1]
December 31
  • Birth of Henri Guise [le Balafré]; French duke/leader (Catholic League). [1]

1551

April 23
  • Birth of Boris Godunov tsar of Muscovy (1598-1605) in Time of Troubles. [1]
May 2
  • Birth of William Camden English historian (Brittania, Annales). [1]
May 17
  • Birth of Martinus A del Rio Spanish/South Netherlands lawyer/historian/theologist. [1]

1552

February 1
  • Birth of Edward Coke England, jurist/politician (defended common law). [1]
February 8
  • Birth of Théodore-Agrippa d'Aubigné French/Swiss historian/poet (Tragiques). [1]
February 19
  • Birth of Melchior Klesl in Vienna, Austria; Protestant, converted to Roman Catholicism, Bishop of Vienna, cardinal. [37]
February 28
  • Birth of Jobst Bürgi [Justus Byrgius], Swiss/German mathematician, watchmaker, astronomer, invented logarithms. [1] [37]
July 18
  • Birth of Rudolf II in Vienna Austria; Holy Roman Emperor (1576-1612). [37]

1553

November 23
  • Birth of Prospero Alpini Italy, botanist/physician (De Medocoma Aegyptorum). [1]
December 13
  • Birth of Henry IV first Bourbon-king of Navarre/France (1572/89-1610). [1]

1554

January 9
  • Birth of Gregory XV [Alessandro Ludovisi], Roman Catholic pope (1621-23). [1]
November 30
  • Birth of Philip Sidney England, poet/statesman/soldier (Arcadia). [1]

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December 17
  • Birth of Ernst of Bayern prince/bishop of Liege/archbishop of Cologne. [1]

1555

December 27
  • Birth of Johann Arndt German Lutherian theologist. [1]

1556

January 27
  • Birth of Abbas I "the Great", shah of Persia (1587-1629). [1]
February 7
  • Birth of Maria van Nassau Dutch countess of Buren. [1]
February 21
  • Birth of Sethus Calvisius composer. [1]
March 18
  • Birth of François-Hercule de Valois French duke of Anjou/Brabant. [1]
June 19
  • Birth of James VI of Scotland (1567-1625)/James I of England (1603-25). [1]

1557

February 24
  • Birth of Matthias C Sarbiewski [Sarbievius] in Vienna; Polish Jesuit/poet/Holy Roman Emperor (1612-19). [1] [37]
May 5
  • Birth of Emmanuel-Philibert van Lalaing baron of Montigny/marquis of Renty. [1]
May 31
  • Birth of Theodorus I (Fedor Ivanovitsj) czar of Russia (1584-98). [1]
December 7
  • Birth of Girolamo Trombeti composer. [1]

1558

May 16
  • Birth of Andreas of Austria Bohemia cardinal/Governor of Netherlands (1598-1600). [1]
July 11
  • Birth of Robert Greene Elizabethan dramatist (Friar Bacon). [1]
November 6
  • Birth of Thomas Kyd English dramatist (Spanish Tragedy). [1]

1559

February 18
  • Birth of Isaac Casaubon naturalized English classical scholar, theologian. [1]
November 11
  • Birth of Albert VII in Wiener Neustadt, Austria; archbishop and cardinal of Toledo, Spain in 1577, governed Portugal from 1581-1595, ruler of the Spanish Netherlands (1595-). [37]

1560

January 5
  • Birth of William Cobbold composer. [1]
December 12
  • Birth of Maximilien de Béthune duke of Sully/baron of Rosny/Prime Minister of France. [1]

1561

January 22
  • Birth of Francis Bacon in England; statesman/essayist (Novum Organum). [1] [5]
March 29
  • Birth of Santorio Sanctorius in Trieste, Italy; physician/burned at stake/heretic. [1]
December 9
  • Birth of Edwin Sandys a founder of Virginia colony. [1]

1562

January 12
  • Birth of Charles Emanuel I the great, Duke of Savoy. [1]
November 25
  • Birth of Lope Felix de Vega Madrid Spain, dramatist/poet (Angelica, Arcadia). [1]
December 18
  • Birth of Philipp Dulichius composer. [1]

1563

June 1
  • Birth of Robert Cecil Earl of Salisbury, English chief minister (1598-1625). [1]
December 29
  • Birth of Francesco Maria Guaitoli composer. [1]

1564

February 6
  • Birth of Christopher Marlowe English poet/dramatist (Dr Faustus). [1]
February 15
  • Birth of Galileo Galilei in Pisa, Italy; astronomer/physicist. [1] [5] [129]
March 9
  • Birth of David Fabricius Essen Germany, astronomer (discovered variable star). [1]
April 23
  • Birth (estimated) of William Shakespeare in Stratford-on-Avon, England; dramatist and poet (Hamlet, MacBeth, Julius Caesar) (dies 1616). [1] [5] [129]
October 15
  • Birth of Heinrich Julius near Wolfenbüttel, Germany; playwright (Von Vincentio Ladislao, Von einem Ungeratnen Sohn, Von einer Ehebrecherin). [37]

1565

May 15
  • Birth of Henrick de Keyser architect/master builder of Amsterdam. [1]

1566

January 14
  • Birth of Angelo Notari composer. [1]
January 30
  • Birth of Alessandro Piccinini composer. [1]
May 26
  • Birth of Mohammed III sultan of Turkey (1595-1603). [1]
December 1
  • Birth of Philip earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, Governor of Fort Gorinchem/Nijmegen. [1]
December 11
  • Birth of Manuel Cardoso composer. [1]
December 30
  • Birth of Alessandro Piccinini composer. [1]

1567

January 4
  • Birth of Franciscus Aguilon physicist/mathematician/jesuit/architect. [1]
February 12
  • Birth of Thomas Campion England, composer/poet/physician. [1]
May 15
  • Birth of Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi Cremona Italy, composer (L'Orfeo). [1]
July 3
  • Birth of Samuel de Champlain explorer (Lake Champlain). [1]
December 15
  • Birth of Christoph Demantius composer. [1]

1568

February 11
  • Birth of Honoré d'Urfé French writer (L'Astrée). [1]
March 9
  • Birth of Aloysius "Luigi" van Gonzaga Italian prince/Jesuit/saint. [1]
May 11
  • Birth of Christian I ruler of Anhalt-Bernburg (Battle of White Mountain). [1]
May 17
  • Birth of Christoph Thomas Walliser composer. [1]

1569

April 3
  • Birth of Giovanni Battista Massarengo composer. [1]
April 10
  • Birth of Emilia van Nassau daughter of Willem of Orange and Anna of Saxon. [1]
December 9
  • Birth of Martinus de Porres Peru, saint (patron of social justice). [1]
December 18
  • Birth of Jakob Hassler composer. [1]
December 30
  • Birth of Georg Quitschreiber composer. [1]

1570

March 31
  • Birth of Louise Juliana countess of Nassau. [1]

1571

January 21
  • Birth of John I Pontanus physicist/historian (Amsterdam). [1]
January 22
  • Birth of Robert Bruce Cotton English antiquary, politician. [1]
February 15
  • Birth of Michael Praetorius AKA Michael Schuldheiss in Kreuzberg, Germany; composer and music theorist (Syntagma musicum). [1] [37]
December 27
  • Birth of Johannes Keppler in Weil der Stadt, Germany; mathematician, astronomer, developed the idea that the planets moved in elliptical orbits around the sun. [1] [37] [129]

1572

February 14
  • Birth of Hans Christoph Haiden composer. [1]
June 11
  • Birth of Ben Jonson England, playwright/poet (Volpone, Alchemist). [1]

1573

January 10
  • Birth of Simon Marius in Gunzenhausen, Germany; astronomer, named the four largest moons of Jupiter, first to report the spiral nebula in Andromeda, one of the first to note sunspots. [37]
January 31
  • Birth of Ambrosius Metzger composer. [1]
  • Birth of Giulio Cesare Monteverdi composer. [1]
February 22
  • Birth of Gemignano Capilupi composer. [1]
February 28
  • Birth of Elias Hill German architect/city builder (Augsburg). [1]
April 17
  • Birth of Maximillian I in Munich, Germany; Duke of Bavaria, elector of the Holy Roman Empire (1623). [1] [37]
April 26
  • Birth of Marie de'Medici Queen of France. [1]
July 15
  • Birth of Inigo Jones London, architect; restored Saint Paul's cathedral. [1]
September 28
  • Birth of Caravaggio Italy, painter. [1]
December 1
  • Birth of Philippus Rovenius [Rouveen] apostile vicar. [1]
December 21
  • Birth of Mathurin Régnier French poet (Macette). [1]
December 22
  • Birth of Ernst Casimir count of Nassau-Dietz/mayor of Frisia/Groningen. [1]

1574

January 9
  • Birth of Christoph Buel composer. [1]
January 17
  • Birth of Robert Fludd composer. [1]
January 23
  • Birth of Lucas I Franchoys Belgian painter. [1]
March 5
  • Birth of William Oughtred England, mathematician/inventor (slide rule). [1]
  • Birth of Friedrich IV in Amberg, Germany; elector of Rhineland-Pfalz. [37]
March 7
  • Birth of John Wilbye composer. [1]
May 7
  • Birth of Innocent X [Giambattista Pamfili] 236th Roman Catholic pope (1644-55). [1]
December 12
  • Birth of Anne van Denemarken daughter of Danish King Frederik II. [1]
December 15
  • Birth of Samuel Besler composer. [1]

1575

February 4
  • Birth of Pierre de Bérulle French cardinal. [1]

1576

April 24
  • Birth of San Vicente de Paúl. [1]
May 17
  • Birth of Ferdinand van Apshoven the Older, Flemish painter, baptized. [1]

1577

February 8
  • Birth of Robert Burton writer, Anglican clergyman (Anatomy of Melancholy). [1]
March 26
  • Birth of Elisabeth of Nassau daughter of Willem I and Charlotte of Bourbon. [1]
May 1
  • Birth of François van Kinschot Dutch treasurer. [1]
May 28
  • Birth of Floris II van Pallandt Dutch earl of Culemborg/politician. [1]
June 28
  • Birth of Peter Paul Rubens Siegen, Flemish Baroque painter (Circumcision). [1]

1578

January 28
  • Birth of Cornelis Haga Dutch lawyer/ambassador to Constantinople (1611-39). [1]
February 9
  • Birth of Giambattista Andreini Italian playwright/actor (L'adamo). [1]
March 5
  • Birth of Charles d'Albert duke of Luynes premier of France/Governor of Picardië. [1]
March 17
  • Birth of Francesco Albana Italian painter (Mary's Ascension). [1]
March 18
  • Birth of Adam Elsheimer German painter/cartoonist/etcher, baptized. [1]
April 1
  • Birth of William Harvey in England; physician (discovered blood circulation). [1]
April 14
  • Birth of Philip III king of Spain and Portugal (1598-1621). [1]

1579

January 4
  • Birth of Willem Teellinck Dutch theologist/vicar. [1]
February 9
  • Birth of John Meursius [van Meurs], Dutch historian. [1]
April 12
  • Birth of François de Bassompierre marshal of France. [1]
December 20
  • Birth of John Fletcher Elizabethan dramatist (Phylaster) (baptized). [1]

1580

January 12
  • Birth of Jean Baptiste van Helmont Belgian chemist, (found boiling point temperature). [1]
April 18
  • Birth of Thomas Middleton English playwright (Game of Chess). [1]

1581

January 4
  • Birth of Bishop James Ussher Archbishop of Armagh, calculated Earth's beginning (November 23, 4004 BC). [1]
February 4
  • Birth of Daniel Selich composer. [1]
December 9
  • Birth of Emilia Secunda Antwerpiana daughter of Willem of Orange. [1]

1582

January 28
  • Birth of John Barclay; Scottish satirist/poet (Euphormio's Satyricon, Argenis). [1]
April 1
  • Birth of Gaspar de Crayer Flemish painter. [1]
  • Birth of Thomas Simpson composer. [1]
April 8
  • Birth of Phienas Fletcher poet. [1]
May 1
  • Birth of Marco da Gagliano Italian opera composer. [1]
December 23
  • Birth of Severo Bonini composer. [1]

1583

January 8
  • Birth of Simon Episcopius Dutch bishop/theologist. [1]
February 2
  • Birth of Anna Roemers Visscher Dutch poetess. [1]
February 17
  • Birth of J Henry Alting Dutch theologist. [1]
March 3
  • Birth of Edward Herbert of Cherbury English military/philosopher. [1]
April 10
  • Birth of Hugo Grotius Holland, jurist, father of international law. [1]
September 24
  • Birth of Albrecht Wallenstein in Hermanice, Bohema; commanding general of the armies of the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War. [37]
December 25
  • Birth of Orlando Gibbons English composer (O Clap Your Hands), baptized. [1]

1584

January 29
  • Birth of Frederik Hendrik count of Nassau/Prince of Orange. [1]
February 12
  • Birth of Casparus Barleaus Flemish theologist/poet (Muiderkring). [1]
April 29
  • Birth of Melchior Teschner composer. [1]
May 23
  • Birth of Maximilian von Trauttmansdorff in Graz, Austria; Austrian diplomat in Habsburg imperial politics, negotiated an end to the Thirty Years' War ending with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. [37]
December 4
  • Birth of John Cotton Puritan clergyman in Massachusetts Bay colony. [1]

1585

January 6
  • Birth of Claude Favre baron de Perouges seigneur de Vaugelas French grammarian. [1]
February 12
  • Birth of Caspar Bartholin Malmö, physician, theologian, writer on anatomy. [1]
March 5
  • Birth of Johan Georg I; elector of Saxon (1611-56) (Peace of Prague). [1] [37]
March 16
  • Birth of Gerbrant A Bredero Holland, poet/playwright (Klucht van de Koe). [1]
September 9
  • Birth of Cardinal A Jean de Plessicide de Richelieu Louis XIII chief minister. [1]
October 8
  • Birth of Heinrich Schütz in Köstritz; German court composer in Dresden (Dafne, Musikalische Exequien, and Kleine geistliche Konzerte). [37]
October 28
  • Birth of Cornelius Otto Jansen France, Roman Catholic reform leader. [1]

1586

January 20
  • Birth of Johann Hermann Schein in Grünhain; composer of sacred and secular music (Fontana d'Israel), introduced Italian Baroque style into German music, cantor at the Church of Saint Thomas in Leipzig. [1] [37]
February 8
  • Birth of Jacob Praetorius composer. [1]
April 17
  • Birth of John Ford English dramatist ('Tis Pity She's a Whore). [1]
December 29
  • Birth of Francisco de Moncada Spanish earl of Osuna/marquis of Aytona. [1]

1587

January 6
  • Birth of Gaspar de Guzmán Count of Olivares, Premier of Spain (1621-43). [1]
January 8
  • Birth of Johannes Fabricius Denmark, astronomer (discovered sunspots). [1]
January 16
  • Birth of Alexander Adriaenssen Flemish painter. [1]
April 17
  • Birth of Marco Ivan Lukacic composer. [1]
July 9
  • Birth of Ferdinand II, in Graz, Austria; Holy Roman Emperor, leading proponent of the Catholic Counterreformation and defender of absolutist rule in the 30 Years' War. [37]
August 18
  • Birth of Virginia Dare, first child born to English parents in America, to Governor John White's daughter Eleanor and Ananias Dare, a member of the governor's staff. [1] [641.47]
November 17
  • Birth of Joost van den Vondel Cologne Germany, Dutch poet/dramatist (Jephtha). [1]

1588

January 12
  • Birth of John Winthrop first Governor (Massachusetts Bay Colony). [1]
  • Birth of Jose Ribera [Lo Spagnoletto] Spanish painter. [1]
February 12
  • Birth of John Winthrop English attorney/puritan/first Governor of Massachusetts. [1]
February 19
  • Birth of Pieter de Carpentier Flemish Governor-General of Dutch East-Indies. [1]
February 26
  • Birth of Nicolaus Erich composer. [1]
April 5
  • Birth of Thomas Hobbes England, philosopher (Leviathan). [1]
April 15
  • Birth of Claudius Salmasius [Claude Saumaise] French linguist. [1]
September 8
  • Birth of Marin Mersenne France, mathematician/musician/philospher (Cartesian). [1]

1589

January 8
  • Birth of Ivan [Dzivo F] Gundulic Dalmatisch writer (Dubravka). [1]
February 5
  • Birth of Honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan French playwright/poet. [1]
February 7
  • Birth of Jacob de Witt Dutch mayor (Dordrecht)/mathematician. [1]
March 3
  • Birth of Gisbertus Voetius [Gijsbert Voet], Dutch reformed theologist. [1]
March 19
  • Birth of William Bradford Governor of Plymouth colony for 30 years (baptized). [1]

1590

April 18
  • Birth of Ahmed I 14th sultan of Turkey (1603-17). [1]

1591

May 1
  • Birth of Adam Schall von Bell in Cologne; Jesuit missionary, advisor to the Chinese emperor. [37]
May 26
  • Birth of Dirck Janszoon Sweelinck composer. [1]
August 24
  • Birth of Robert Herrick England, poet (Gather ye rosebuds) (baptized). [1]

1592

January 5
  • Birth of Shah Jahan Mughal emperor of India (1628-58), built Taj Mahal. [1]
January 14
  • Birth of Sjihab al-Din Sultan Choerram Sjah Djahan leader of India. [1]
January 22
  • Birth of Pierre Gassendi Champtercier Provence, scientist/philosopher. [1]
January 27
  • Birth of Pierre de La Barre composer. [1]
March 28
  • Birth of Jan Amos Komensky [Comenius] Moravian educational reformer. [1]
April 14
  • Birth of Abraham Elsevier book publisher/publisher. [1]
April 20
  • Birth of John Eliot Saint Germans Cornwall, English Member of Parliament/author. [1]
April 28
  • Birth of George Villiers first duke of Buckingham/English Admiral. [1]
May 8
  • Birth of Francis Quarles English poet (Argalus and Parthenia, Emblems). [1]
August 28
  • Birth of George Villiers duke of Buckingham, royal minister to James I. [1]

1593

March 19
  • Birth of Georges de la Tour French painter. [1]
April 3
  • Birth of George Herbert English metaphysical poet (5 Mystical Songs). [1]
April 13
  • Birth of Thomas Wentworth London, earl of Strafford/Viceroy of Ireland. [1]
May 20
  • Birth of Jacob Jordaens Flemish barok artist. [1]
August 9
  • Birth of Izaak Walton England, biographer/fisherman/writer (Compleat Angler). [1]

1594

March 25
  • Birth of Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher Dutch writer. [1]
April 20
  • Birth of Matthaus Apelles von Lowenstern composer. [1]
April 24
  • Birth of Benedikt Lechler composer. [1]
December 9
  • Birth of Gustavus II Adolphus king who made Sweden a major power (1611-32). [1]
December 20
  • Birth of Giovanni Battista Gagliano composer. [1]

1595

February 2
  • Birth of Jacob van Campen painter/architect (New Church, Amsterdam). [1]
April 5
  • Birth of John Wilson composer. [1]
May 27
  • Birth of Benedictus Carpzovius [Benedikt Carpzov], German lawyer. [1]

1596

January 5
  • Birth of Henry Lawes English composer. [1]
January 13
  • Birth of Jan J Goyen Dutch landscape painter. [1]
March 11
  • Birth of Isaac Elsevier book publisher. [1]
March 31
  • Birth of René Descartes France, philosopher (he thought, therefore he was). [1]
May 9
  • Birth of Abraham van Diepenbeeck painter. [1]
September 3
  • Birth of Nicolo Amati Italy, violin maker (Stradivari and Guarneri). [1]

1597

December 23
  • Birth of Martin Opitz in Bunzlau, Silesia; poet and theoretician (Buch von der deutschen Poeterey (1624)), member of "Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft" literary society, considered the "father of German poetry". [1] [37]

1598

April 5
  • Birth of Laurentius Erhard composer. [1]
April 9
  • Birth of Johannes Crüger in Gross-Breesen; composer (Jesu, meine Freude, Nun danket alle Gott, and Herzliebster Jesu, was hast du verbrochen) and music theorist (Synopsis musica (1630)), cantor at the Nikolai church in Berlin. [1] [37]
April 23
  • Birth of Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp naval commander. [1]
May 23
  • Birth of Claude Mellan French engraver/cartoonist/painter, baptized. [1]
August 7
  • Birth of Georg Stiernhielm "father of Swedish poetry" (Hercules). [1]
November 7
  • Birth of Francisco de Zurbaran Spain, Baroque painter (baptized). [1]
December 7
  • Birth of Giovanni Bernini Italy, baroque sculptor (Saint Teresa in Ecstasy). [1]

1599

January 12
  • Birth of Adrian van Utrecht Flemish painter. [1]
February 13
  • Birth of Alexander VII [Fabio Chigi], Siena Italy, pope (1655-67). [1]
February 22
  • Birth of Anthony Van Dyck Antwerp Belgium, painter. [1]
March 13
  • Birth of Johannes Berchmans Dutch Jesuit/saint. [1]
March 22
  • Birth of Anthony Van Dyck Flemish painter (Charles I of England). [1]
March 23
  • Birth of Thomas Selle composer. [1]
April 25
  • Birth of Oliver Cromwell; Puritan lord protector of England (1653-58) (dies 1658). [1] [5]
June 6
  • Birth of Diego Velázquez Spain, painter (Rokeby Venus) (baptized). [1]

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