1543 births

founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (1543–1616)

Italian architect (1543-1607)

3rd Dalai Lama (1543-1588)

Duke of Lorraine from 1545

Japanese artist (1543-1590)

Duchess Consort of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp

Superior General of the Society of Jesus (1543–1615)

German prince and reigning count palatine of Simmern (1543-1592)

Kurdish-Turkmen noble and writer (1543-c.1603)

Doge of Venice (1543-1618)

Spanish poet

daughter of Şehzade Mehmed

Italian cardinal (1543-1562)

Italian Jesuit priest and sinologist (1543–1607)

Archduchess of Austria, nun, co-founder of the convent in Hall in Tirol

German noble

Portuguese of Braganza; (1543-1583)

English noblewoman

Italian composer (1543–1588)

Marshal of France (1543-1626)

thumb|Kennyo , also known as Kōsa (光佐), was the 11th patriarch of the Hongan-ji lineage of Jodo Shinshu Buddhism, and Chief Abbot of Ishiyama Hongan-ji, cathedral fortress of the Ikkō-ikki (Buddhist warrior priests and peasants who opposed samurai rule), during its siege at the end of the Sengoku period. Similar to his father, Shōnyo (10th patriarch), Kennyo engineered many alliances, and organized the defenses of the cathedral to the point that most at the time considered Ishiyama Hongan-ji to be unbreachable. ==Biography== In 1570, Takeda Shingen, a relative of Kennyo through marriage, faced

German general

military leader

samurai (1540-1600)

Korean Joseon dynasty politician and educator, poet (1543-1620)

Italian physician

German duke (1543–1603)

Chinese general and admiral

Italian poet (1543-1593)

architect, engineer

Cardinal Priest (1543-1585)

Flemish printer and publisher (1543–1610)

English courtier and poet

Italian cardinal

Dutch physician (1543-1601)

German nobleman (1543–1624)

Governess of the Children of France

Taksi (Manchu: ; ; 1543–1583), or posthumously titled as Emperor Xuan, was a Jurchen chieftain and father of Nurhaci, founder of the Later Jin dynasty, and the fourth son of Giocangga. A member of the House of Aisin-Gioro, he was killed in an attack on Gure (古哷 Gǔlè) by a rival Jurchen chieftain Nikan Wailan in 1583.

Daimyo of the Sengoku period

secretary of state under four kings of France (1542-1617)

Italian architect

French poet and writer

3rd Sultan of Golconda

politician

Polish prince-bishop, priest, canon and provost

French theologian (1543-1628)

Italian painter (1543-1592)

Japanese noble (1543–1590)

samurai

German historian, writer (1543-1598)

Sardinian historian, geographer and clergyman

Italian philosopher

1545 -

German writer

Bishop of Bamberg

German bishop

Lutheran Hebraist and professor of the University of Wittenberg, where he was an important teacher of the Hebrew language

French lawyer and author (1543-1621)