1537 births

king of England and Ireland from 1547 to 1553

Japanese samurai and daimyo (1537–1598)

Swedish king (1537-1592)

Safavid Shah of Iran from 1576 to 1577

13th Emperor of the Ming dynasty

Portuguese prince

15th shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate of Japan (1568–1573)

Spanish-born French courtier

Italian mathematician (1537-1604)

First Margrave of Baden-Rodemachern

German noble (1537-1604)

Spanish military personnel (1537-1585)

Dutch engraver and publisher (1537–1612)

Titular duke of Mecklenburg, and administrator of Ratzeburg (1537-1592)

German astronomer and mathematician (1537-1616)

Korean Army General and the Commander-in-chief of the Joseon Dynasty

Catholic cardinal (1537-1602)

Count of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1537-1605)

samurai

Italian cardinal (1537-1596)

military commander

Churchman and diplomat

Count of Nassau-Weilburg (1559-1593) and Nassau-Ottweiler (1574-1593)

Italian cardinal

politician

samurai

King of the Karkiya dynasty (1537-1596) (r. 1538-1592)

Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal

Spanish military (1537-1595)

English noblewoman and translator (1537–1578)

Wife of John VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg (1537-1579)

Spanish poet

Catholic cardinal

samurai

painter from the Northern Netherlands (1537–1614)

Spanish duke (1537-1590)

Italian painter (1537–1583)

Italian cardinal

apostolic nuncio

daimyo

Swiss book publisher

Governor-general of Norway

Polish physician

Dutch politician (1537-1586)

Italian priest

daimyo

ferrarese noblewoman

Italian religious

Polish noble

German jurist (1537-1600)

German cartographer

17th-century Roman Catholic bishop

daimyo

Japanese monk

Spanish soldier, priest, geographer and writer

knight and grandfather of Oliver Cromwell

Roman Catholic bishop

Dutch politician

Lord Chancellor of Scotland

Dutch composer, kapellmeister and singer