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Charles Borromeo
Catholic saint, cardinal, archbishop of Milan from 1564 to 1584 (1538–1584)
Christopher Clavius
German astronomer and mathematician (1538–1612)
Caesar Baronius
Italian cardinal and ecclesiastical historian (1538–1607)
Giovanni Battista Guarini
Italian poet
Guglielmo Gonzaga
Duke of Mantua and Montferrat (1538–1587)
Maeda Toshiie
general of Oda Nobunaga following the Sengoku period
Turibius of Mongrovejo
Spanish Roman Catholic archbishop and saint (1538–1606)
Louis of Nassau
nobleman of the Netherlands; military leader in the Eighty Years' War (1538-1574)
Ashikaga Yoshihide
14th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate
Gian Paolo Lomazzo
Italian painter (1538-1592)
Diane de France, Duchess of Angoulême
French noble (1538-1619)
Infanta Maria of Guimarães
Portuguese infanta
Hōjō Ujimasa
Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period
Matthias de l'Obel
Flemish physician and botanist (1538-1616)
Alexander Guagnini
Polish historian
Francesco Gonzaga
Italian cardinal (1538-1566)
John Frederick III, Duke of Saxony
Titular duke of Saxony; nominal Duke of Saxe-Gotha (1538-1565)
Antonio Abondio
Italian sculptor, best known as a medallist (1538–1591)
Luigi d'Este
Catholic cardinal
Bonaventura Vulcanius
Flemish Renaissance humanist (1538-1614)
Irene di Spilimbergo
Italian painter (1538-1559)
Antonio Carafa
Italian cardinal and librarian (1538-1591)
Shah Hussain
16th century Indian Punjabi poet
Imagawa Ujizane
Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period
Nabeshima Naoshige
daimyo
Pablo de Céspedes
Spanish artist (1538-1608)
Johan II of East Frisia
Count of East Friesland (1538-1591)
Miklós Istvánffy
Hungarian politician (1538-1615)
Guillaume de Baillou
French physician and founder of modern epidemiology
Jens Nilssøn
Norwegian bishop
Sigismund of Brandenburg
Archbishop of Magdeburg and Administrator of Halberstadt (1538-1566)
Antun Vramec
Croatian writer
Alonso Rodriguez
Spanish Jesuit
Séraphin Olivier-Razali
French cardinal
Honda Masanobu
Military commander and daimyo in the service of Tokugawa Ieyasu
Udai Singh of Marwar
Raja of Marwar
Alberto Bolognetti
Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (1538-1585)
Flaminio Vacca
Italian sculptor
Laurentius Nicolai Norvegus
Jesuit
Benedetto Caliari
Italian painter (1538-1598)
Sebastian Krelj
Slovene writer and academic
Muhammad Sultan
Khan of the Yarkent Khanate from 1592 to 1609
Nicolas Barnaud
French alchemist
Jane Dormer
British noble (1538-1612)
Takeda Yoshinobu
Japanese daimyo
Gaspare Visconti
Archbishop of Milan
Stefano Felis
Italian composer
Cristóvão de Moura
politician
Miguel Barroso
Spanish artist (1538-1590)
Durante Alberti
Italian painter (1538-1613)
Giovanni Agostino Giustiniani Campi
doge of the Republic of Genoa
Giulia Ammannati
Galileo Galilei mother
Lorenzo Priuli
Italian cardinal and politician
Katakura Kita
Japanese Samurai woman
Kim Seong-il
Joseon dynasty civil servant (1538 – 1593)
Shibata Naganori
Military commander who served under the warlord Uesugi Kenshin
Shinjo Naoyori
Japanese samurai
Antonio Calcagni
Italian artist (1536-1593)
Jerónimo Román de la Higuera
Spanish historian (1538–1611)
Anne Dudley, Countess of Warwick
Sixteenth-century English writer