1500s births

second wife of Henry VIII of England (died 1536)

Wife of Suleiman the Magnificent

Atawallpa (), also Atahualpa or Ataw Wallpa (, ) ( 150229 August 1533), whose regnal name was Caccha Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui Inca (from the caccha idol and to honour the emperor Pachacuti), was the last effective Inca emperor, reigning from April 1532 until his capture and execution in July of the following year, as part of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire.

third wife of Henry VIII of England

Chinese writer

Spanish poet

Spanish explorer and conquistador

English composer

Nahua woman who was the interpreter, advisor, and intermediary to Hernán Cortés

Ottoman statesman (14..–1561)

Ottoman General and Grand Vizier (1500-1580)

Nobleman

Croatian-Hungarian nobleman and general (1508–1566)

Portuguese explorer and writer (1509–1583)

16th century Somali Imam and General of the Adal Sultanate

brother of English queen Jane Seymour (1508–1549)

French statesman

Italian painter (1509-1566)

English courtier and nobleman (1504-1536); brother of Anne Boleyn

Netherlandish composer of the Renaissance

Spanish explorer (1500-1546)

Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (1580–82, 1589–91, 1593–95, 1595–96)

French writer

Tyrolean Anabaptist leader and founder of the Hutterites

Spanish conquistador and soldier

Spanish dramatist and actor

Hungarian musician (ca. 1506-1576)

Spanish writer (1503–1575)

Portuguese botanist, physician, herbalist and naturalist (1501 – 1568)

French poet

Spanish theologian (1509-1560)

Spanish composer

16th century English Protestant reformer, physician and natural historian

sister-in-law of King Henry VIII of England

Italian artist (1509-1590)

Italian luthier

Bishop of London; Anglican Saint

German painter (c. 1505–1562)

Flemish painter (1505-1566)

marshal of France

Dutch painter (1500s-1575)

Flemish painter

baron and soldier from Hungary (1502–1572)

German conquistador

Portuguese explorer

English noble

Rabbi, kabbalist and poet

Spanish composer, vihuelist

Spanish painter (1510-1579)

Spanish conquistador

Spanish musician

German writer

Flemish musician and composer

Italian chef

French–Spanish sculptor (1506-1577)

count of Oldenburg

Ruler of the Yarkent Khanate from 1533 to 1560

Spanish conquistador

Jyeṣṭhadeva () was an astronomer-mathematician of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics founded by Madhava of Sangamagrama (). He is best known as the author of the Yuktibhāṣā, a commentary in Malayalam of the treatise Tantrasamgraha by Nilakantha Somayaji. In the Yuktibhāṣā, Jyeṣṭhadeva gave complete proofs and rationales for the statements in Tantrasamgraha, which was unusual for traditional Indian mathematicians of the time. The Yuktibhāṣā is now believed to contain derivations of Taylor and infinite series expansions for certain trigonometric functions. However, it did not combine

English poet and antiquary