1560s births

16/17th-century French explorer of North America

English explorer b1565

Flemish painter (1564-1638)

British scientist (*~1560 – †1621)

English Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer (1563–1626)

fourth Valide Sultan of Ottoman Empire from 1603 to 1605

Dutch explorer

Roman Catholic Japanese Jesuit seminarian and martyr

Persian painter (1565-1635)

Spanish explorer

army commander of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (1560-1621)

English composer, musician and organ builder

Family member of the House of Medici (1567-1611)

Prince-Bishop of Warmia

Italian Mannerist painter (1568–1640)

Italian art historian

British painter (1556-1617)

Governor of Lahore in 1625

English Jesuit and poet (1561–1595)

Venetian painter of the Renaissance period (1560? – 1590)

Irish Roman Catholic priest, poet and historian

daimyō

daimyo who served as lord of the Hiroshima Domain

German scientist

English playwright and miscellaneous writer

painter from the Northern Netherlands (1562-1640)

Dutch painter and engraver (c.1565-1629)

or , also known as , was a Japanese historical figure in the late Sengoku period. She was the concubine and the second wife of Japanese ruler Toyotomi Hideyoshi. As the mother of his son and successor Hideyori, she acted as Hideyori's guardian in the restoration of the Toyotomi clan after the fall of the Council of Five Elders, and alongside her son, led the last anti-Tokugawa shogunate resistance in the siege of Osaka.

Flemish painter (1562-1641)

Dutch explorer

Italian composer (1567–1630)

King of Kartli

Italian composer, teacher and Franciscan friar

Welsh epigrammatist

17th-century English seaman, explorer and pirate (1562-1622)

German composer

Iranian general and statesman of Georgian origin (c. 1560—1613)

Portuguese composer

English mathematician and cartographer (1561-1615)

Ottoman princess, daughter of Murad III

adventurer, mercenary, and Governor of Syriam (1605-1613)

Italian composer

French noble

English conspirator

English conspirator

Dutch colonial governor

Spanish scholar 1557-1624

French composer

Italian composer, singer and kapellmeister

English composer, organist and Catholic priest in Flanders (1561-1628)

Italian composer

Admiral of France

King of Kartli from 1599 to 1606

English composer

French painter (1561-1602)

religious leader and emigrant to Plymouth Colony, North America (1566-1644)

Military man, diplomat, translator and historian.

Dutch painter, engraver and cartographer (1565–1607)

Hungarian humanist and historian

Scottish courtier and poet