1562 births

Spanish playwright and poet (1562-1635)

duke of Savoy

Dutch composer, organist, and pedagogue in the Renaissance-Baroque eras

16th-century Japanese daimyo (1562-1611)

late-Ming-dynasty Chinese politician, Scholar, Lay Catholic leader and Servant of God (*1562 – †1633)

Duke of Mantua and Montferrat (1562-1612)

Dutch painter (1562-1638)

Archbishop of Canterbury

Italian actress and writer

Italian noble (1562-1628)

Poet and historian

Monarch of Saxe-Weimar (1573 - 1602)

Danish astronomer

Portuguese explorer and missionary

Italian sculptor, painter and restorer (1562-1629)

English bishop, historian and writer

Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg

Monegasque noble (1562-1604)

Margrave of Baden-Hachberg

Italian cardinal

Roman Catholic cardinal

Spanish philosopher (1562-1646)

Duke of Joyeuse

German noblewoman (1562-1621)

Count of Nassau-Beilstein, then Count of Nassau-Dillenburg

Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period

daimyo

Spanish poet and historian (1562-1631)

French admiral (1562-1602)

Italian catholic cardinal (1562-1629)

samurai

Catholic cardinal

Japanese daimyo (1562-1614)

Persian philosopher, poet and mystic

samurai

Beatified Italian nun

German theologian (1562-1627)

English poet

politician

Spanish bishop and cardinal

Dutch admiral (1562-1599)

German noblewoman

Italian painter (1562-1621)

Italian painter (1562-1602)

Spanish military personnel (1564-1631)

Daimyō

Italian nobleman and Duke of Monterotondo, brother of pope Urban VIII

Irish earl

German Jesuit writer

Scottish nobleman

Eidu (Manchu: , , 1562–1622) was a Manchu officer and a member of the Niohuru clan.

Dutch lawyer

Italian cardinal (1562-1641)

Spanish assassin

(1562-1623)

Catholic recusant

Korean general (1587 – 1624)

German humanist

Spanish painter (1562-1617)

Father of poet John Milton and English composer (1563-1647)