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Philipp Melanchthon

German reformer (1497-1560)

Gustav I of Sweden

King of Sweden from 1523 to 1560

Francis II of France

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

Joachim du Bellay

French writer, poet, literary critic, and member of the Pléiade (1522–1560)

Mary of Lorraine

Scottish Queen consort; (1515-1560)

Admiral of the Republic of Genoa (1466–1560)

Baccio Bandinelli

Italian sculptor and painter (1488-1560)

Anastasia Romanovna

first russian Tsarina as the first spouse of Ivan the Terrible

Imagawa Yoshimoto

Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period

Spanish theologian (1509-1560)

Polish Reformer

Catholic cardinal

Stańczyk (; – ) was the most famous Polish court jester. He was employed by three Polish kings: Alexander, Sigismund the Old and Sigismund Augustus.

wife of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester

Domingo de Soto

Spanish theologian, jurist and scientist

Philip I, Duke of Pomerania

Duke of Pomerania-Wolgast

painter from the Northern Netherlands (1500–1560)

Abdurashid Khan

Ruler of the Yarkent Khanate from 1533 to 1560

Isabella of Navarre, Viscountess of Rohan

Infanta of Navarre

German merchant (1493-1560)

Pedro Pacheco de Villena

Catholic cardinal

Luisa Sigea de Velasco

Ernest of Bavaria

German administrator of Passau and Salzburg, pledge lord of the County of Glatz (1500-1560)

Juan de Salazar de Espinosa

Spanish explorer

Jean-François Roberval

French privateer and governor (c. 1500–1560)

German writer and diplomat (1508-1560)

Peder Palladius

Lutheran theologian (1503-1560)

Italian painter (1518-1560)

Petrus Lotichius Secundus

German Neo-Latin Poet (1528-1560)

Benvenida Abrabanel

Italian philanthropist and businesswoman

German religious reformer (1488-1560)

French cardinal

Francesco Vecellio

Italian painter

Italian cardinal

Nikolaus Gerbel

Chōsokabe Kunichika

Japanese warlord

Leonhard Stöckel

Slovak educator, writer and theologist

Francis Talbot, 5th Earl of Shrewsbury

son of George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury and Anne Hastings

Cornelis van Bergen

Philipp Schall von Bell

Baltic German military officer (died 1560)

circa 1492-circa 1572

Chinese philosopher, educator and Confucian scholar (1466-1560)

Concubine of Yarkent Abdurashid Khan (1526–1560)

Sakuma Morishige

samurai of the Sengoku period, a.k.a. Daigaku

Albert VII of Mansfeld

German nobleman, 1480-1560

Ming dynasty person CBDB = 34219 (1507–1560)

Beltrán de la Cueva, 3rd Duke of Alburquerque

Spanish general and noble

Andreas de Vega

Spanish theologian

Giovanni Battista Caporali

Italian painter (1476-1560)

Flemish painter (1528-1560)

Maeda Toshimasa

Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period

court jester of Henry VIII of England

Johannes Kolrose

Johann Dryander

German astronomer

Andrzej Zebrzydowski

bishop of Cracow

Gian Giacomo Adria

Italian physician and renaissance humanist