1531 births

Portuguese royal

Ottoman prince, son of Suleiman the Magnificent and Hürrem Sultan

daughter of Emperor Ferdinand I from the House of Habsburg and Anna Jagiello (1531–1581)

Duchess consort of Nemours

Italian noble and diplomat (1531-1591)

Spanish religious (1531-1574)

Hungarian humanist (1531–1584)

Mughal general (1531-1562)

Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller

2nd Duke of Nemours

Italian historian (1531-1601)

Italian engineer

Dutch noble (1531-1568)

Italian cardinal

Japanese samurai

scholar and quack at the court of John George, Elector of Brandenburg

ruler of the Principality of mine Hagen

Italian cardinal

Prince of Moldavia

Italian Renaissance man (1531-1612)

Italian mathematician

Italian poet

Roman Catholic cardinal

German mathematician and cartographer (1531–1589)

16th-century Catholic cardinal

French soldier and author (1531-91)

Indian Islamic jurisprudent (Fiqh)

cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church

Count of Waldeck-Wildungen

Portuguese prince

Spanish painter of the Renaissance period (1556-1607)

German businessman (1531-1598)

Belgian jurist

French jurist, politician and humanist (1531-1591)

16th-century Catholic cardinal

English noble

Grand Pensionary of Holland

Marchioness of Montecchio by marriage

samurai

Chinese general

princess and queen consort of the Inca Empire

Roman Catholic bishop

foundress of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

Portuguese Jesuit missionary to Africa

Italian painter (1531-1612)

samurai

1st French foreign minister 1589-1594; considered world's 1st foreign minister, as emissary entrusted with all foreign relations

Italian religious martyr

Italian Dominican friar and composer (1531-1611)

(1531–1595), Bishop of Fiesole

Samurai of the Azuchi-Momoyama period

english interrogator (1531-1604)