1530s births

Queen of England and Ireland in July 1553

Italian painter (c.1532-1625)

Spanish chronicler (1539-1616)

English seaman and privateer (1535–1594)

Spanish priest and chess player

Italian painter (1535-1612)

Italian architect and sculptor (1532-1602)

pirate Queen of Umaill, chieftain of the Ó Máille clan

1st Duke of Orkney and third and final husband of Mary, Queen of Scots

Italian composer (1533–1585)

English spy, diplomat and politician (1532-1590)

English explorer, politician and soldier (1539-1583)

Shaybanid Khan of Bukhara from 1583 to 1598

Lautaro (Anglicized as 'Levtaru') ( "swift hawk") (; 1534 – April 29, 1557) was a young Mapuche toqui known for leading the indigenous resistance against Spanish conquest in Chile and developing the tactics that would continue to be employed by the Mapuche during the long-running Arauco War. Levtaru was captured by Spanish forces in his early youth, and he spent his teenage years as a personal servant of chief conquistador Pedro de Valdivia. He graduated from servant to stableman; in this job he saw that their horses were not godlike creatures like his people thought (the biggest animal they k

2nd Emperor Inca of the Kingdom of Vilcabamba

Patriarch of Constantinople

English royal consort

regent of Scotland, natural son of James V, king of Scots (1531-1570)

Italian stage designer, architect, theatrical designer, military engineer and artist (1531-1608)

Italian philosopher

Flemish painter and draftsman (1533-1573)

Spanish artist (1531-1588)

Dutch artist (c. 1533–1578)

Serbian Hajduk (1530–1601)

Italian painter (1536-1565)

Korean court physician (1539 – 1615 )

Spanish explorer

Hausa Muslim Warrior Queen of Zazzau

Italian composer

16th-century English poet and courtier

Italian composer

French artist (1525–1590)

murder victim, musician, secretary for French correspondence to Mary, Queen of Scots

Dominican friar (1537-1588)

Flemish painter (c.1535-1597)

English politician and nobleman (1536–1572)

Georgian king of Kartli from 1556 to 1569 and again from 1578 to 1599

Spanish noble

English businessman and father of William Shakespeare (1530–1601)

Italian painter (1536-1591)

Spanish writer

16th-century Safavid historian and military officer

French dramatist

16th-century English linguist and translator

Flemish composer

Catholic cardinal

Spanish physician and psychologist

Polish composer

Italian artist (1530-1600)

Ottoman Navy officer

Italian sculptor

one of the Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan

Swedish politician

Spanish translator

Italian painter (1517–1597)

alchemist, bibliophile, philosopher, physician, translator

, also known as was a Japanese woman from the Sengoku period to the Azuchi–Momoyama period. She was the daughter of Saitō Dōsan, a Sengoku Daimyō of the Mino Province, and the lawful wife of Oda Nobunaga, a Sengoku Daimyō of the Owari Province.

Italian noble

mother of William Shakespeare

Safavid painter and writer (1533–1610)