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1585 births

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Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu

French clergyman, cardinal, noble and statesman (1585-1642)

Heinrich Schütz

German composer and organist (1585–1672)

Hendrick Avercamp

Dutch painter (1585–1634)

Cornelius Jansen

Bishop and theologian (1585-1638)

Johann Georg I, Elector of Saxony

elector of Saxony

Queen Consort of Hungary and Bohemia and Empress Consort of Holy Roman Empire

Giulio Cesare Vanini

Italian philosopher

Claude Favre de Vaugelas

Savoyard grammarian and man of letters (1585-1650)

Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero

Dutch poet and playwright (1585-1618)

Caspar Bartholin the Elder

Danish polymath (1585-1629)

Hamnet Shakespeare

Hamnet Shakespeare was the only son of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway, and the fraternal twin of Judith Shakespeare. Hamnet died at the age of 11. Some Shakespearean scholars speculate on the relationship between Hamnet and his father's later play Hamlet, as well as on possible connections between Hamnet's death and the writing of King John, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, and Twelfth Night.

Frederick I, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg

Founder of the junior line Hesse-Homburg

Italian scientist and botanist, founder of the Lincean Academy (1585-1630)

Sisto Badalocchio

Italian painter (1585-1647)

English Venerated Catholic (1585-1645)

Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel

English diplomat (1585-1646)

Domenico II Contarini

Doge of Venice (1585-1675)

William Drummond of Hawthornden

Scottish writer 1585–1649

Vincenzo Carafa

Polish polymath (1585-1652)

Francesco Cornaro

Doge of Venice (1585-1656)

Catherine of Guise

French noble (1585–1618)

Spanish Dominican lay brother

English minister, theologian, immigrant to Massachusetts (1585-1652)

Swedish field marshal (1585-1615)

Johann Heermann

German poet hymn-writer (1585-1647)

Henriette Catherine de Joyeuse

Duke of Joyeuse

Edmund Arrowsmith

Lancaster Jesuit priest; one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales

Governor-general of the Dutch East Indies (1585-1652)

Frederick Casimir, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Landsberg

Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Landsberg

Krzysztof Radziwiłł

Lithuanian noble and politician (1585-1640)

younger daughter of William Shakespeare

Hyacintha Mariscotti

Franciscan nun and saint

Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland

British writer, 1585-1639

French mathematician

English Benedictine martyr

Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba

Spanish military leader (1585–1635)

Polish bishop (1585-1657)

French politician and admiral (1585-1654)

Catholic cardinal

Livia della Rovere

Italian noble (1585-1641)

Carlo Emanuele Pio di Savoia

Italian cardinal

Inoue Masashige

daimyo of the early Edo period. Ometsuke of Tokugawa shogunate

French churchman

Rudolf von Colloredo

Czech nobleman (1585-1657)

Christian, Count of Waldeck-Wildungen

Count of Waldeck-Wildungen

Antoon Sallaert

Flemish painter (1594–1650)

Domingo Pimentel Zúñiga

Spanish religious and political figure

Giovanni Biliverti

Florentine painter (1585-1644)

Zofia of Słuck

Polish noble and saint

Alexander Whitaker

English theologian

Antonio Ruiz de Montoya

Peruvian Jesuit priest and missionary (1585–1652)

Anna Maria of Solms-Sonnenwalde

Countess consort of Hohenlohe-Langenburg

Pieter van den Broecke

Dutch cloth merchant in the service of the Dutch East India Company (VOC)

Daniel Schwenter

German mathematician

Estêvão Cacella

Portuguese missionary

Ana de Velasco y Girón

Mother of King John IV of Portugal (1585-1607)

Nathaniel Bacon

English painter from Suffolk (1585-1627)

Chinese calligrapher (1585-1646)

Lelio Falconieri

Catholic cardinal