1556 births

Italian architect (1556–1629)

Anne Shakespeare, commonly known as Anne Hathaway and sometimes referred to as Agnes Hathaway, was the wife of William Shakespeare, the English poet, playwright and actor. They were married in 1582, when Hathaway was pregnant at 26 years old and Shakespeare was 18. Some writers, such as Samuel Schoenbaum, have assumed that she was rather old for an Elizabethan bride, but in fact it was normal for her contemporaries to marry in their 20s, although legally they could marry earlier. Shakespeare, on the other hand, was young for an Elizabethan bridegroom.

Mughal court poet and minister (1556–1627)

German Lutheran pastor, hymnwriter

daimyo during the Sengoku and Edo periods

English poet and dramatist (1556-1596)

Catholic cardinal (1556-1600)

Counts Palatine of Sulzbach (1556-1604)

Doge of Venice

French writer

French saint

Dutch sailor

Japanese daimyo (1556-1630)

French bishop, Magistrate of the Parliament, Keeper of the Seals of France under Louis XIII

Malian academic (1556-1627)

Catholic cardinal (1556–1618)

English martyr and saint of Roman Catholic Church (1555-1586)

Friar Minor, martyr and saint

German music theorist, composer, chronologer, astronomer, and teacher

daimyo

Italian saint

Greek painter active in Venice and Veneto (1556-1629)

Italian painter (1556-1629)

Italian writer

daimyo

Countess of Nassau (1556-1616)

Luso-Brazilian activist

ninth Gyalwa Karmapa

Jesuit martyr

Italian Capuchin friar (1556-1625)

Italian cardinal (1556-1615)

Italian cardinal

French noble (1556-1605)

Italian painter (1556-1622)

Italian sculptor and architect (1556-1613)

Italian composer

Carniolan noble and military commander in the battle of Sisak

Italian painter (1556-1640)

Italian painter (1556-1632)

French princess

Badr al-Din al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Dimashqi al-Saffuri al-Burini (July 1556-11 June 1615), commonly known as al-Hasan al-Burini, was a Damascus-based Ottoman Arab historian and poet and Shafi'i jurist.

librarian (1556-1617)

Italian painter (1556-1632)

Italian painter (1556-1618)

English Countess (1556-1634)

Inca princess and wife of the governor of Chile

Italian author

Italian painter (1556-1612)

Japanese noble

English Puritan divine and separatist

French Basque cleric and politician (1557-1641)

English countess (c 1556-1632)

korean naval officer (1556–1612)