1544 births

Italian poet (1544–1595)

King of France from 1559 to 1560 (1544-1560)

French writer

Duchess consort of Bavaria

Dutch princess (1545-1577)

Flemish painter (1544-1607)

Prince of Transylvania (1544–1608)

British Archbishop of Canterbury

Duchess of Saxe-Weimar

Duke of Pomerania-Stettin from 1603 to 1606

Dutch explorer

Japanese samurai

French Roman Catholic priest and saint

French politician

English Roman Catholic priest

German mathematician and astronomer (1544-1588)

senior retainer beneath the clan of Takeda

Peruvian writer and historian

Indian saint

Daimyo of the Date clan of Mutsu Province

Bosnian scholar and judge

Italian cartographer and geographer (1544-1613)

French historian

Cambodian king (1594-1596)

Sri Lankan king of Sitawaka from 1581 to 1593

English Catholic martyr (1544-1594)

Flemish painter (c.1544-1618)

Spanish nun (1544-1594)

Spanish theologian; (1544-1606)

17th-century Catholic cardinal

Flemish Renaissance painter (1544-1603)

Daimyo who ruled a region in southern Higo Province

French diplomat

Marshal of France

Japanese tea master

Luxembourgian historian

Spanish catholic bishop

historian

Italian painter (1544-1574)

Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period, who served the Oda clan

Italian-Jewish polymath (1544–1599)

Dutch Italian painter (1542–1618)

Italian painter (c.1544-1614)

Samyeongdang (1544–1610), also known by his dharma name Yujeong, was a Korean Buddhist monk during the Joseon era. He is sometimes identified by his art name, Song-un. He was born to a family of the Im clan in Miryang, Gyeongsang Province. After the deaths of his mother in 1558 and his father in 1559, he became a monk at Jikjisa on Hwangaksan in Gimcheon.

samurai

Roman Catholic bishop

Italian condottiero 1544-1586, father of Aloysius Gonzaga

Joseon dynasty official and Righteous army leader in the Imjin war (1544 – 1592)

Italian painter (1544-1618)

English nobleman at the courts of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I (1544-1632)

Dutch painter, printmaker in Franc (c.1545-1615)

Spanish politician

Portuguese Roman Catholic bishop (1544-1608)

Roman jurist and Treasurer-General to Pope Clement VIII.

French philosopher

German astronomer

(1544-1608)

German writer