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Tiziano Vecellio (; 27 August 1576), Latinized as Titianus, hence known in English as Titian ( ), was an Italian Renaissance painter. The most important artist of Renaissance Venetian painting, he was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno.

Gerolamo Cardano

Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer (1501-1576)

Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor

King of the Romans, King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia (1527-1576)

Safavid Shah of Iran from 1524 to 1576

German meistersinger ("mastersinger"), poet, playwright and shoemaker (1494–1576)

Aloysius Lilius

Italian astronomer

Isabella de' Medici

daughter of Cosimo I. de’ Medici and Eleonora of Toledo (1542-1576)

Frederick III of the Palatinate

Elector Palatine (1515-1576)

Bálint Bakfark

Hungarian musician (ca. 1506-1576)

Bartolomé Carranza

Roman Catholic archbishop

Luis de Requesens y de Zúñiga

Spanish politician

John Albert I, Duke of Mecklenburg

duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow and Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Levina Teerlinc

Flemish painter (1510-1576)

Juan de Salcedo

Spanish conquistador

Wilhelm Xylander

German humanist and classical scholar (1532–1576)

Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz

Rabbi, kabbalist and poet

Dutch anatomist

Italian sculptor (1530-1576)

Persian illustrator and painter

Swiss theologian

Isabella of Braganza

Duchess of Guimarães in her own right

Mavro Vetranović

Croatian writer

Charles Stuart, 1st Earl of Lennox

Scottish noble (1555-1576)

Austrian military engineer (1509–1576)

Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex

English noble and general (1541-1576)

Estêvão da Gama

Portuguese colonial governor

Count of Hohenzollern and Count of Haigerloch

Clara of Saxe-Lauenburg

Lope García de Castro

Spanish colonial administrator (1516-1576)

Persian illustrator and painter (1510–1572)

Eleonora di Garzia di Toledo

Daud Khan Karrani

Final Sultan of Bengal (1572-76)

Chinese artist (1496-1576)

Marius Nizolius

Italian academic

Bernardino Gatti

Italian artist (1495-1576)

Francesco da Sangallo

Italian artist (1494-1576)

Giacomo IV Crispo

Haydar Mirza Safavi

Safavid prince (1554 – 1576)

Cornelius Jansen

Bishop of Ghent

Juan de Betanzos

Spanish writer and historian

Adam de Craponne

French engineer

Portuguese cartographer (1521–1576)

Barom Reachea III

Baraminreachea (, ; 1521–1576) was the Cambodian king who reigned from 1566 to 1576.

Joachim Hoppers

Dutch jurist and university professor (1523-1576)

Otto IV of Schaumburg

Persian illustrator and painter

Sheikh Hamza Makhdoom

Kashmiri Sufi Saint

Franciscus Sonnius

Dutch theologian

Infante Edward, 5th Duke of Guimarães

Portuguese infanta (1541-1576)

George Gordon, 5th Earl of Huntly

Scottish nobleman

Beata Kościelecka

Polish magnate heiress

Italian sculptor (1494-1576)

Juan de Polanco

Clergy and secretary to the Superior General of the Society of the Jesuits

Pieter Claeissens the Elder

Flemish painter (1500-1576)

Lodewijk van Boisot

admiral of the Zeeland Sea Beggar fleet (circa 1530-1576)

Italian poet (1496-1576)

Portuguese artist, musician and writer

Tommaso Porcacchi

Italian writer and cartographer

German theologian