1579 births

English Jacobean playwright (1579–1625)

Dominican lay brother and saint

The second shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (1579–1632)

Flemish painter (1579–1657)

Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Prince of Wolfenbüttel (1579-1666)

Spanish writer

Danish explorer

Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth

Dutch philologist and historian

Italian cardinal and diplomat (1579–1644)

Scottish Jesuit saint and martyr

Italian painter (1579-1620)

Mistress of Henry IV of France (1579-1633)

French courtier and Marshal of France (1579-1646)

bearded female court dwarf

French soldier, writer and leader of the Huguenots (1579–1638)

Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin (1579, Amecameca, Chalco1660, Mexico City), usually referred to simply as Chimalpahin or Chimalpain, was a Nahua annalist from Chalco. His Nahuatl names () mean "Runs Swiftly with a Shield" and "Rising Eagle", respectively, and he claimed descent from the lords of Tenango-Amecameca-Chalco. He was the grandson of the late Don Domingo Hernández Ayopochtzin, a seventh-generation descendant of the founding king of the polity. Don Domingo was learned and esteemed, especially for his education and his record-keeping skills in the anc

German prince

Czech rabbi

Spanish general (1590-1660)

French saint

French painter (1579-1650)

(1579-1620)

Countess of Nassau

British philologist, historian, poet and etruscologist

samurai (1579-1655)

Dutch writer

Lutheran archbishop

Swedish historian and writer

daimyo

Japanese samurai

Catholic cardinal (1579-1653)

Scottish noble

Italian architect and sculptor (1579-1675)

Cambodian King

daimyo

English physician and alchemist (1579-1651)

Patriarch of Ethiopia (1579-1659)

Dutch historian (1579–1635)

Dutch astronomer, mathematician and physician

English missionary in America (1579–1656)

German engraver (1579-1637)

Spanish politician (1579-1655)

Italian Catholic bishop (1579-1664)

German princess

British Royalist commander (1579 – February 1652)

Swiss poet, historian and theologian (1579-1627)

English noble (1579-1642)

English peer and politician; (1579-1649)

Italian poet

Dutch lawyer (1579-1637)

(1579-1579)

Italian noble

German general

German count

German count

Polish-Lithuanian noble and Imperial count (1579-1636)

Dutch Golden Age painter (1579-1623)

Spanish viceroy

German painter (1579-1643)