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Suleiman the Magnificent

the tenth and greatest Sultan of Ottoman Empire (1520–1566)

Michel de Nostredame (December 1503 – July 1566), usually Latinised as Nostradamus, was a French astrologer, apothecary, physician, and reputed seer, who is best known for his book Les Prophéties (published in 1555), a collection of 942 poetic quatrains allegedly predicting future events.

Bartolomé de Las Casas

Spanish Dominican friar, historian, and social reformer (1474–1566)

French poet of the Renaissance, born in Lyon (1524–1566)

Diane de Poitiers

French noblewoman and courtier (1500-1566)

Nikola Šubić Zrinski

Croatian-Hungarian nobleman and general (1508–1566)

German physician and botanist (1501–1566)

Daniele da Volterra

Italian painter (1509-1566)

Ottoman princess, (1500-1570), daughter of Selim I

Sigismund von Herberstein

Carniolan diplomat, writer and historian (1486–1566)

Johannes Agricola

Reformer, humanist (1494-1566)

French physician (1507-1566)

Antonio de Cabezahueca

Spanish composer and organist (1510-1566)

Italian painter (1529-1566)

Lambert Lombard

Flemish painter (1505-1566)

Marco Girolamo Vida

Margaret Paleologa

Marchioness of Montferrat in her own right

Italian poet and Knight of Malta (1507-1566)

Italian noblewoman of the Renaissance

Ibn Hajar al-Haytami

16th-century Sunni Muslim Shafi`i scholar

murder victim, musician, secretary for French correspondence to Mary, Queen of Scots

Stanisław Orzechowski

Ahmed Karahisari

Ottoman calligrapher (1469–1556)

Christopher of Oldenburg

count of Oldenburg

George Cassander

Flemish theologian

Giacomo Gastaldi

Italian cartographer (1500–1566)

Francesco Gonzaga

Italian cardinal (1538-1566)

Cristóbal Vaca de Castro

Spanish explorer (1492-1566)

Francisco Mendoza de Bobadilla

Catholic cardinal

Charles Dumoulin

French jurist (1500-1566)

Italian philosopher

Richard Edwardes

English poet, dramatist and composer

Raffaellino del Colle

Italian painter (1490–1566)

Safavid prince and Persian poet

Swedish military personnel

Wolfgang, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen

Wolfgang Schutzbar

Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights

Girolamo Ruscelli

Giovanni Battista Cicala Zoagli

Cambodian King (1516-1566)

Agostino Pinelli Ardimenti

Taj Khan Karrani

Ruler of Bengal

Pierre Boaistuau

Catholic cardinal

René of Lorraine, marquis of Elbeuf

Marquis of Elbeuf

Sigismund of Brandenburg

Archbishop of Magdeburg and Administrator of Halberstadt (1538-1566)

Utameshgaray of Kazan

Pier Francesco Ferrero

Italian cardinal

Francesco Crasso

Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (1500-1566)

Agnes Waterhouse

Englishwoman executed for witchcraft

Philip II of Nassau-Wiesbaden

Count of Nassau-Wiesbaden (1536-1566)

Jacob the Dacian

Danish missionary

Pedro Juan Perpiñá

Jesuit, Spanish professor and author

Juan Correa de Vivar

Spanish artist (c. 1510 – 1566)

Margarethe von der Saale

German Lady-in-waiting

Luis Hurtado de Mendoza y Pacheco

French cardinal

António de Gouveia

Portuguese educator and writer

Froben Christoph von Zimmern

German noble, author of the Zimmern Chronicle