1572 births

English poet and cleric (1572-1631)

English playwright, poet, and actor (1572-1637)

German lawyer and uranographer

Prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg

Patriarch of Constantinople

Dutch inventor and submarine pioneer

French nun and saint (1572-1641)

Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, musician (1572-1632)

Duke of Lorraine

Ottoman historian

French Royal

Duke of Nemours (1595–1632)

Welsh composer

Mughal prince

Catholic misionary

physician and chemist

Dutch diplomat and statesman (1572-1641)

Duke of Brunswick-Harburg (1572-1641)

Catholic cardinal

King of Dun na nGall

German physician and professor of physics, astronomy and arithmetic

cartographer

Second Duke of Bracciano

Czech baroque writer, hofmeister, valet and nobleman

English writer

Catholic cardinal

Italian historian (1572-1649)

Czech poet, playwright, writer and science writer (1572–1622)

Belgian mathematician, priest and astronomer (1572-1615)

Lord of Gera, Lobenstein and Oberkranichfeld (1572-1635)

Danish noble (1572-1649)

English military commander and politician (1572-1638)

Lithuanian bishop (1572–1630)

Gdansk architect

Dutch admiral in the Polish navy (1572-1627)

French physician

French noble and military leader

German doctor and botanist (1572-1653)

Italian mathematician and astronomer

French cardinal and archbishop

German composer

17th-century Roman Catholic cardinal

Brazilian Roman Catholic saint

politician

Austrian mathematician (1571–1632)

daimyo of the Azuchi-Momoyama Period and the early Edo Period; 1st lord of Miyazu

Polish-German writer

French noble lady (1572–24 Apr 1618)

Spanish writer and actor

German physician

Italian painter (1572-1642)

English lutenist and composer

daimyo

Georgian prince (1572-1625)

17th Century bishop

Dutch businessman

Finnish bishop (1572-1652)

English nobleman (1572-1625)

Flemish painter and art dealer

Calvinist theologian from Germany