1520s births

Italian Renaissance composer (c. 1525–1594)

16th-century Portuguese poet

Flemish painter (1526–1569)

fifth wife of Henry VIII of England

French writer, poet, literary critic, and member of the Pléiade (1522–1560)

French poet of the Renaissance, born in Lyon (1524–1566)

Valide Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1574 to 1583

16th-century samurai; assassin of Oda Nobunaga

Italian painter (1525-1578)

Italian lutenist, composer and music theorist

Italian physician, botanist and philosopher (1524–1603)

(1520-1551) queen-consort of Poland, Grand Duchess of Lithuania

Mughal princess

painter from the Northern Netherlands (1519–1575)

French humanist, publisher and printer (c.1520–1589)

Italian poet

Flemish scholar (1522-1592)

Maltese architect

German conquistador

English chronicler

(c.1510–1579) Hungarian noble

Portuguese writer

Ottoman prince

Dutch admiral (1524-1568)

English explorer and navigator

French poet and bishop

Protestant reformer

Polish composer

Impersonated French peasant

Lithuanian writer and translator

Portuguese doctor and natural historian (1515-1594)

French noble (1520-1585)

painter from the Netherlands

16th-century English historian and antiquarian

Indian raja

French writer and councillor

Jurist, theologian, philosopher, engineer

Flemish printmaker, painter and draughtsman

chief Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth I

Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller

Roman Catholic archbishop

Italian composer

French architect, painter, engraver, garden designer (c.1535-1604)

Galawdewos (, 1521/1522 – 23 March 1559), also known as Claudius in European sources, was Emperor of Ethiopia from 3 September 1540 until his death in 1559, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. His throne name was Atsnaph Sagad I (Ge'ez: አጽናፍ ሰገድ). A male line descendant of medieval Amhara kings, he was a younger son of Dawit II and Seble Wongel.

Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller

Khan of Kazan

historian from Italy

Danish/German artist (1527-1583)

Italian painter, engraver and architect (c.1524-1587)

English scholar

French poet of the Renaissance

English politician

notable figure of 16th century Elizabethan English society

Indian poet

Spanish theologian and priest

Italian painter (1521-1583)

Portuguese cartographer (1520–1580)

Italian painter (1527–1605)

Italian noble (1522-1547)

Spanish poet