1491 births

Breton maritime explorer of North America (1491–1557)

Henry VIII was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547. After the Pope refused to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, Henry passed legislation that severed England and Ireland from the Roman Catholic Church and established the monarch as Supreme Head of the Church of England, initiating the English Reformation. He subsequently married five more times; two marriages were annulled, and two wives were executed.

Spanish Catholic priest and theologian (1491–1556)

Protestant reformer

emperor of the Ming Dynasty

Italian poet and writer

diplomat (1491-1585)

French noble (1491-1521)

Spanish theologian and economist

Italian Catholic cardinal and archbishop

Spanish poet

Marshal of France

French noble

Vietnamese poet

Spouse of John III, Duke of Cleves

queen; Korean royal consort

Prince-bishop

eldest son of Gian Galeazzo Sforza, duke of Milan, and Isabella of Naples

Italian cardinal (1491-1527)

Japanese samurai warrior

daimyo of the Sengoku period

French nobility (1491-1549)

Slovenian diplomat

French captain

Italian condottiero

Italian Cardinal

German Lutheran theologian

Hungarian noble (1491-1539)

Spanish writer

Odia poet and litterateur

Italian private banker

Japanese samurai and engineer

Italian philosopher

thumb|Latıfı (detail). From Mesâ’irü’ssu’arâ, Asık Çelebi, late 16th or early 17th century, Istanbul Millet Library, A. E. Tarih 772, fol.41a Latifî (1491–1582), or Kastamonulu Latifî Çelebi, was an Ottoman poet and bibliographer. Born in Kastamonu, in northern Anatolia, he became famous for his tezkire ''Tezkiretü'ş-Şuara'' (Memoirs of the Poets), the second Ottoman collection of bibliographical data on poets and poetry in overall.