1532 births

Franco-Flemish composer (1532–1594)

The fourth Safavid king (1578–1587)

English nobleman and the favourite and close friend of Queen Elizabeth I (1532-1588)

English navigator, admiral, privateer and slave trader (1532-1595)

French writer (1532-1589)

French dramatist and poet

Spanish explorer

Electress consort of Saxony

Portuguese missionary (1532–1597)

Astronomer, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1532-1592)

Doge of Venice (1532-1605)

Flemish draughtsman, painter (1532-1603)

Domenico Scandella (1532–1599), known as Menocchio (), was an Italian miller from Montereale Valcellina, Republic of Venice, who was tried for heresy by the Roman Inquisition for his unorthodox religious views and then was burnt at the stake in 1599. The 16th-century life and medieval religious beliefs of Menocchio are known from the records of the Inquisition, and are the subject of The Cheese and the Worms (1976) by Carlo Ginzburg, as well as of the stageplay Menocchio (2002) by Lillian Garrett-Groag and the film Menocchio (Menocchio the Heretic) (2018) by Alberto Fasulo.

Member of the House of Habsburg

English Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church

German humanist and classical scholar (1532–1576)

wife of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester

khan of Crimea from 1577 to 1584

Duchess of Prussia

English lawyer, politician and writer of verse (1532-1584)

count of East Frisia (1532–1599)

(1532-1617) lay brother and saint

Roman Catholic archbishop and saint (1532-1611)

Catholic cardinal (1532-1596)

Italian duke (1532-1553)

Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and statesman

Swiss mathematician

Flemish humanist, poet, and artist (1532-1599)

Catholic priest, inquisitor, Catholic bishop (1532-)

German duchess (1532-1565)

Polish minister, theologian and writer

queen; Korean royal consort

Count of Schwarzburg, then Count of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (1532-1586)

Welsh bishop of Cassano all'Jonio and Vatican diplomat (1533-1595)

English Catholic priest and martyr

German poet

Dutch Mayor

Spanish noble, son of Hernán Cortes (1532-1589)

Iranian poet and literary

Prince of Uglich

Catholic cardinal

Japanese samurai

Prince-bishop of Hildesheim

Spanish composer

Italian painter (1532-1577)

Italian artist (1532-1565)

Child saint venerated in the Russian Orthodox Church

Ruling count of Sayn-Wittgenstein (1532-1605)

Italian mathematician and philosopher

Countess consort of Hanau-Münzenberg (1532-1579)

Polish noble and scholar

German theologian (1532-1608)

daimyo

German alchemist

3rd emperor of the Revival Lê dynasty, 14th emperor of the Later Lê dynasty

Abbess of Gandersheim, later Duchess of Brunswick-Grubenhagen

politician and magistrate in a Elizabethan England; (1532-1600)

seventeenth Head of Sō clan

English physician and entomologist (1532–1589)

samurai