1520 births

King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania

English statesman and chief adviser to Queen Elizabeth I (1520-1598)

Scottish royal consort

Italian cardinal and diplomat (1520–1589)

Croatian theologian (1520–1575)

French dance manual author and priest (1520-1595)

Electress Palatine (1520-1580)

Portuguese soldier; first Governor of Rio de Janeiro

Spanish artist (1520-1568)

Spanish revolutionary

son of Spanish conquistador Diego de Almagro

Patriarch of Constantinople

Spanish Benedictine monk, first educator of the deaf

Swedish noble (1520-1590)

Hungarian noble, politician (1520-1579)

German teacher

French navigator and colonizer

Spanish cardinal

Portuguese colonial governor

Ottoman biographer, poet, and translator

Italian courtesan, mistress of the future king Henry II of France

Portuguese composer

Franciscan friar and saint (1520-1567)

Lithuanian historian

Italian mythographer (1520–1582)

Indian philosopher

Danish finance minister (1520–1575)

French classical scholar

Flemish Renaissance painter

German 16th century illustrator

Duke of Legnica during 1547–1551 and 1556–1559

politician

Count of Nassau-Idstein (1564-1568)

Spanish artist (1520-1583)

Spanish cardinal

Dutch doctor and mathematician (1520-1564)

German musician

ITalian military engineer and architect

40th Grandmaster of the Teutonic Order (1520-1572)

Roman Catholic archbishop

Hyujeong (, 1520–1604), also called Seosan Daesa () was a Korean Seon master. As was common for monks in this time, he travelled from place to place, living in a succession of monasteries. Buddhist monks had been forced to keep a low profile since General Yi Seonggye had been forced to eject Buddhism from its state of total permeation of government in order to gain the support of Neo-Confucian scholar-officials to consolidate his position against his Buddhist political opponents when he overthrew Gongyang of Goryeo in 1392 to become King Taejo of Joseon.

Catalan composer and church musician

Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and archbishop

French jurist, theologian and historian (1520-1573)

Roman Catholic cardinal

Italian painter (1520-1575)

Governor of the Duchy of Milan (1520-1578)

Franco-Flemish composer

Polish noble

Southern Netherlandish Renaissance painter (1520-1571)

Swedish artist (1520–1592)

German physician (1520–1581)

Jewish-born convert to Christianity, scholar and theologian

Japanese samurai

Italian bishop

Italian painter (1520-1582)

samurai

(1520 – 1595) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, mainly active in Milan

French calvinist writer (1520-1576)

Military engineer