1503 births

Michel de Nostredame (December 1503 – July 1566), usually Latinised as Nostradamus, was a French astrologer, apothecary, physician, and reputed seer, who is best known for his book Les Prophéties (published in 1555), a collection of 942 poetic quatrains allegedly predicting future events.

Holy Roman Emperor of the Habsburg dynasty and king of Bohemia, Croatia and Hungary (1503–1564)

Agnolo di Cosimo (; 17 November 150323 November 1572), usually known as Bronzino ( ) or Agnolo Bronzino, was an Italian Mannerist painter from Florence. His sobriquet, Bronzino, may refer to his relatively dark skin or reddish hair.

16th-century Holy Roman Empress and Queen of Spain (1503-1539)

king of Denmark and Norway

Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola (11 January 150324 August 1540), also known as Francesco Mazzola or, more commonly, as Parmigianino (, , ; "the little one from Parma"), was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker active in Florence, Rome, Bologna, and his native city of Parma. His work is characterized by a "refined sensuality" and often elongation of forms and includes Vision of Saint Jerome (1527) and the iconic if somewhat anomalous Madonna with the Long Neck (1534), and he remains the best known artist of the first generation whose whole careers fall into the Mannerist period.

English poet and diplomat (1503-1542)

king of Navarre

Queen Consort and Princess of Hungary and Bohemia, Queen Consort of Germany and Archduchess of Austria

Duke of Parma (1503-1547)

Elector of Saxony and Head of the Protestant Confederation of Germany (1503-1554)

16th-century printer and classical scholar in Paris

Roman Catholic archbishop (1503–1556)

Roman Catholic archbishop

Polish renaissance scholar (1503-1572)

16th-century Sunni Muslim Shafi`i scholar

German duke

Italian writer, poet and playwright of XVI century

16th century German artist, mathematician, and cartographer (1503-1553)

Catholic cardinal

Flemish Renaissance painter (1503-1580)

Governor General of Brazil

king of Kongo from 1545 to 1561

Chinese general

Countess Palatine of Zweibrücken; later Countess Palatine of Simmern

king of Kakheti (1505–1574)

Italian humanist (1503-1569)

English artist (1503-1545)

German humanist

Italian diplomat, mathematician, philologist and humanist

Lutheran theologian (1503-1560)

Vietnamese Trinh Lord

German historian

Italian painter (1503-1577)

politician

French cardinal

Duke of Münsterberg, Duke of Oels and Count of Kladsko, and Bishop of Brandenburg (1503-1563)

English Protestant priest, writer, and martyr

German adventurer

Dutch bishop

thumb|284x284px|Ruins of Thula fortress in [['Amran, where al-Mutahhar barricaded himself against Ottoman attacks.]] Al-Mutahhar bin Yahya Sharaf ad-Din (January 3, 1503 – November 9, 1572) was an imam of the Zaidi state of Yemen who ruled from 1547 to 1572. His era marked the temporary end of an autonomous Yemeni polity in the highlands. After the period of resistance against the Ottomans by al-Mutahhar and his eventual death, the following period marked the beginning of a long period of Ottoman domination which was only broken by the Qasimid imams of the Yemeni Zaidi State in the early

Japanese samurai and daimyo of the Sengoku period

theologian, scholar and humanist

Indian saint

Italian bishop, inquisitor and historian (1503-1587)

kugyō

Genevan abbess

Spanish missionary

Spanish Roman Catholic bishop

daimyo

Italian noblewoman

Italian noble

Italian engraver and painter (1503-1575)

maliki jurist from Tlemcen

Austrian artist (1503-1561)

Danish historian