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James VI and I was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567, and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603, until his death in 1625. Though he long attempted to get both countries to adopt a closer political union, the kingdoms of Scotland and England remained sovereign states ruled by James in personal union, with their own parliaments, judiciaries and laws.

13th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1595–1603)

Sigismund III Vasa

King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania and king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1587 until 1632 and King of Sweden from 1592 until 1599 (1566–1632)

Napoletan noble, composer and murderer (1566–1613)

Giambattista Basile

Italian writer (1583-1632)

Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain

Infanta of Spain, Archduchess of Austria (1566-1633)

Abraham Bloemaert

Dutch painter (1566–1651)

Michał Sędziwój

Polish alchemist, philosopher, and medical doctor

Katerina Vitale

first female pharmacist and chemist in Malta

Giovanni Baglione

painter and biographer of artists (c. 1566–1643)

Magdalena de Pazzi

Italian Carmelite mystic and saint (1566-1607)

English actor (1566–1626)

Francesco Erizzo

Doge of Venice (1566-1646)

Joachim Wtewael

Dutch painter and draughtsman (1566-1638)

Bohemian philosopher, doctor, politician and science writer (1566-1621)

Giuseppe Biancani

Italian mathematician and selenographer

Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt

Dutch painter (1566–1641)

Princess Sigrid of Sweden

Swedish princess

Anna Juliana Gonzaga

Italian-born Archduchess of Austria and Religious Sister

John Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach

German Baroque painter (1566-1638)

Marie of the Incarnation

French Discalced Carmelite beatified nun

Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Prince of Lüneburg (1566-1633)

Roman Catholic bishop

Portuguese composer and organist

Charles, Count of Soissons

Lieutenant General of New France (1566-1612)

Flemish painter

Luisa Carvajal y Mendoza

Spanish religious poet

Maria of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Duchess Consort of Saxe-Lauenburg (1566-1626)

Francesco Bracciolini

Italian poet (1566-1645)

Akashi Takenori

Abraham Scultetus

German theologian (1566-1625)

Alessandro Piccinini

Italian lutenist and composer

Sanada Nobuyuki

Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork

Filippo Spinelli

Italian cardinal

Late Renaissance Italian music theorist and singer

Gaspar Fernández

Guatemalan composer and chapelmaster

Françoise de Montmorency-Fosseux

Mistress to the French King

Francesco Cennini de' Salamandri

Roman Catholic cardinal

Italian painter (1566-1638)

Diego Guzmán de Haros

Catholic cardinal

Philip of Nassau

Count of Nassau

Polyxena of Lobkovic

Bohemian noblewoman (1566-1642)

Mohammed esh Sheikh el Mamun

Saadi Dynasty ruler in Morocco (1566–1613)

Claude de La Trémoille

Antonio Caetani

Italian cardinal (1566-1624)

Piotr Kochanowski

Polish nobleman and writer

Michelangelo Tonti

17th-century Catholic cardinal

John III of Rietberg

Count of Rietberg

Joachim Burmeister

Poet and Composer

British travel writer

Bonifazio Caetani

Italian cardinal

William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Exeter

English politician and Earl

Johann Matthias Kager

Innocenzo Del Bufalo-Cancellieri

Italian cardinal

Paul Bernard Fontaine

Spanish commander

Fabian Birkowski

1566-1636, Polish writer and preacher

Tomaso Malvenda

Spanish theologian