1578 births

English physician (1578-1657)

King of Castilla and León and King of Aragon and Portugal (1578-1621)

Holy Roman Emperor

Baroque painter (1578–1660)

French regicide

German painter and draftsman (1578-1610)

Duke of Jülich and Berg

Italian mathematician (*1577/78 – †1643)

duke of Luynes

Countess of Orange-Nassau by birth and by marriage Countess of Hanau-Münzenberg (1578-1648)

Italian painter (c.1580-1644)

painter and son of El Greco (1578-1631)

Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel (1578-1602)

Italian composer and music theorist (1578-1640)

Roman painter (1578-1630)

Italian painter (1578-1650)

Italian painter (1578–1649)

Neapolitan artist and follower of Caravaggio (1578-1635)

French noble (1578-1621)

Flemish physician, anatomist (1578-1625)

Japanese artist (1578-1650)

English traveller, colonist, poet, translator

German Jesuit and playwright (1578–1639)

Viceroy of Peru and New Spain (1578-1630)

Co-ruler of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen

Baroque painter (c.1570–1615)

first prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1578–1638)

Catholic cardinal

Anauk-pet-lun or Anauk-bak-lun ( , lit. "King who died in the West"; 21 January 1578 – 9 July 1628), also called Prāsāda thong klod kæw (พระเจ้าปราสาททองกลดแก้ว) in Mon-thai chronicles, was the sixth king of Taungoo Burma and was largely responsible for restoring the kingdom after it collapsed at the end of the 16th century. In his 22-year reign from 1606 to 1628, Anaukpetlun completed the reunification efforts begun by his father, King Nyaungyan. Having inherited a partial kingdom comprising mainly Upper Burma and the Shan States from his father, Anaukpetlun went on to reconquer Lan Na in the

Austrian nobleman and Imperial General

English poet (1578-1653)

Flemish Baroque painter (1578-1623)

French noble (1578-1657)

Danish prince-bishop

Croatian (Istrian) villager who was accused of being a vampire

Spanish poet and chaplain (1578-1650)

writer

doge of the Republic of Genoa

Italian painter (1578–1630)

Catholic cardinal

Belgian theologian (1578–1627)

Polish-Lithuanian noble (1578-1613)

politician

possible Dark Lady of Shakespeare's sonnets

English Earl

Puritan clergyman and pamphleteer in England and Massachusetts

duchess consort of Saxe-Eisenach

Spanish philosopher and theologian

French Jesuit and educator

Marshal of France (1575-1638)

Caravaggesque painter active in Messina (1578-1648)

Westminster Divine

daimyo

Catholic cardinal

French engraver (1578-1637)

Chinese Neo-Confucian scholar (1579–1645)

Flemish painter (1578-1621)

French philosopher

daimyo

English writer and engraver