1501 births

Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer (1501-1576)

pope of the Catholic Church and bishop of Rome from 9 April to 1 May 1555

Queen consort of Denmark, Norway and Sweden; (1501-1526)

Mughal military commander and statesman (1501–1561)

Korean Confucian scholar (1502 -1571)

German physician and botanist (1501–1566)

Italian scientist (1501–1578)

Khan of Crimea

Italian painter (1501–1547)

Samurai of the Sengoku period (1501–1561)

queen; Korean queen (1501 - 1565)

Italian painter (1501-1556)

Duke of Pomerania

Regent of East Frisia from 1540 to 1561

Catholic cardinal

Korean scholar and politician (1501-1572)

Photisarath (also spelled Phodhisaraja, Phothisarat, or Potisarat, , 1501–1548), son of King Visoun of Lanxang, is considered to be the most devout of the Lao kings. He banned spirit worship and built temples upon the sites of spirit shrines. His elephant fell and crushed him while he sought to display his prowess to the diplomatic corps. His son Setthathirath returned from Chiang Mai to succeed him to the throne of Lan Xang.

Italian academic

Japanese samurai

Count of Hanau-Münzenberg

Italian cardinal

daimyo

Italian cardinal (1501-1558)

Italian Duchess

Swiss printer in Basel (1501–1563), active 1531-1563

German legal scholar

German astronomer and mathematician (1501-1559)

German theologian (1501-1573)

Co-ruler of Oldenburg

last Marquess of Saluzzo between 1537 and 1548

Polish duke

Sri Lankan King

English noble (1501-1563)

Spanish aristocrat (1501-1557)

English baron (1501-1551)

German theologian (1501-1564)

1st Duke of Aveiro

English politician

painter

Italian astronomer

16th-century German humanist

Fakhr-un-Nissa (died 1501) was a Mughal princess as the eldest child of the first Mughal Emperor Babur and his Empress consort Aisha Sultan Begum.

German Anabaptist leader

Japanese diplomat (1501–1579)

samurai

English humanist scholar