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Catherine de' Medici

queen-consort and regent of France (1519–1589)

Henry III of France

King of France from 1574 to 1589 (1551-1589)

Jean-Antoine de Baïf

French writer (1532-1589)

Alessandro Farnese

Italian cardinal and diplomat (1520–1589)

Christophe Plantin

French humanist, publisher and printer (c.1520–1589)

Jacques Clément

assassin of the French king Henry III

German educator (1507–1589)

Hŏ Nansŏrhŏn

Korean Joseon dynasty poets, artist (1563-1589)

Maria of the Palatinate-Simmern

Duchess consort of Södermanland

Benedict the Moor

Italian-born African Franciscan friar in Sicily

Carniolan minister and translator

Prince-Bishop of Warmia

Belgian theologian

Charles II, Lord of Monaco

Lord of Monaco (1555-1589)

German 16th serial killer convicted as a werewolf

Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Prince of Wolfenbüttel and Calenberg (1528-1589)

Hadim Mesih Pasha

Ottoman governor

Jacopo Zabarella

Italian philosopher (1533-1589)

Paulo Dias de Novais

Portuguese explorer and colonial administrator

Philothei of Athens

Japanese consort

Laura Battiferri

Italian poet and writer

Anna Maria of Brandenburg-Ansbach

German princess of Principality of Ansbach by birth and by marriage Duchess of Württemberg (1527-1589)

Magnus Heinason

Faroese naval hero, trader and privateer

Croatian-Hungarian nobleman and diplomat (1533-1589)

Lodovico Guicciardini

Italian historian (1521-1589)

Julius Caesar Aranzi

Italian anatomist

Prospero Santacroce

Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal

Guillaume Rouillé

French bookseller-printer and humanist (c. 1504–1589)

Quentin Metsys the Younger

Flemish painter (1543-1589)

António da Madalena

Portuguese explorer

Francisco Balbi di Correggio

Italian writer (1505-1589)

Leonardo Salviati

Adolphus of Neuenahr

count of Limburg and Moers (1545-1589)

Diederik Jansz. Graeff

German mathematician and cartographer (1531–1589)

Thomas Sébillet

William Somerset, 3rd Earl of Worcester

Earl of Worcester (1526–1589)

Martín Cortés, 2nd Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca

Spanish noble, son of Hernán Cortes (1532-1589)

Jacopo da Trezzo

Medallist from Italy (1515–1589)

Tommaso Garzoni

Italian writer (1549-1589)

English politician; (1523-1589)

Mikołaj VII Radziwiłł

Polish-Lithuanian noble (1546-1589)

Pedro Malón de Chaide

Spanish writer and priest

Giuseppe Mazzuoli

Italian painter (1536-1589)

Fathullah Shirazi

16th-century Persian Sufi polymath

Christian Hollander

Melchior Wieland

Prussian physician and botanist (1519–1589)

Joannes Hauchin

Roman Catholic archbishop

Ali-Qoli Khan Shamlu

guardian of future Safavid shah Abbas the Great (died 1589)

Japanese monk of the Sengoku period, son of daimyo Hōjō Sōun

Andrea Calamech

Italian architect and sculptor (1524-1589)

Daniel Specklin

Alsatian fortress builder, engineer and cartographer

Barbara Gizanka

Mistress of Sigismund II Augustus, King of Poland

David of Euboea

16th century Greek Orthodox abbot and Saint

seventeenth Head of Sō clan

Lost the battle that signaled the start to the Eighty Years' War (1541-1589)

Hachiya Yoritaka

Samurai who served the Oda clan

Kacchwaha King of Amber, later known as Jaipur