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Michel de Montaigne

French author, philosopher, and statesman (1533–1592)

John III of Sweden

Swedish king (1537-1592)

Alexander Farnese

duke of Parma and Piacenza, lived (1545-1592); duke of Castro, man of government and military in the service of Spain

Italian painter (1510–1591)

Elisabeth of Austria

Queen consort of France (1554–1592)

Bartolomeo Ammannati

Italian architect and sculptor (1511-1592)

Thomas Cavendish

English explorer and privateer (1560-1592)

English author (1558-1592)

Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa

Spanish explorer

Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq

Flemish scholar (1522-1592)

Ana de Mendoza, Princess of Eboli

Spanish Princess (1540-1592)

William the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Duke of Brunswick (1535-1592)

John Casimir of the Palatinate-Simmern

German prince and reigning count palatine of Simmern (1543-1592)

William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg

German nobleman; Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg (1516-1592)

William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel

Astronomer, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1532-1592)

Flemish painter (1499-1592)

Gian Paolo Lomazzo

Italian painter (1538-1592)

Marc'Antonio Ingegneri

Italian composer

Dirck Barendsz.

Dutch painter (1534–1592)

Spanish friar (1540-1592)

Alessandro Striggio

Italian composer

Sibylle of Saxony

Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg (1515-1592)

Johann VII, Duke of Mecklenburg

duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1558-1592)

Dorothea Susanne of Simmern

Duchess of Saxe-Weimar

Francesco Bassano the Younger

Italian painter (1549-1592)

George John I, Count Palatine of Veldenz

Ernest Louis of Pomerania

Duke of Pomerania (1545-1592)

Nikolaus Selnecker

German musician and theologian, 1530-1592

Bartolomeo Passarotti

Italian painter (1529-1592)

Juan Huarte de San Juan

Spanish physician and psychologist

thumb|Kennyo , also known as Kōsa (光佐), was the 11th patriarch of the Hongan-ji lineage of Jodo Shinshu Buddhism, and Chief Abbot of Ishiyama Hongan-ji, cathedral fortress of the Ikkō-ikki (Buddhist warrior priests and peasants who opposed samurai rule), during its siege at the end of the Sengoku period. Similar to his father, Shōnyo (10th patriarch), Kennyo engineered many alliances, and organized the defenses of the cathedral to the point that most at the time considered Ishiyama Hongan-ji to be unbreachable. ==Biography== In 1570, Takeda Shingen, a relative of Kennyo through marriage, faced

Christopher, Duke of Mecklenburg

Titular duke of Mecklenburg, and administrator of Ratzeburg (1537-1592)

François, Duke of Montpensier

Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron

Marshal of France (1524-1592)

Girolamo Muziano

Italian painter and draughtsman

Michel de Castelnau

French diplomat

Patrick Adamson

Churchman and diplomat

William of Rosenberg

High Treasurer and High Burgrave of Bohemia (1535-1592)

thumb|right|Tea bowl, known as Suchiro, studio of Chōjirō thumb|Tea bowl exemplifying Chojiro's Wabi style (1516-1592) is distinguished as the first generation in the Raku family of potters. Chojiro is the creator of Raku-ware, as well as the founder of the Raku kiln.

German 16th century illustrator

Giovanni Battista Lercari

Korean general (1554 – 1592)

Alexander Sauli

Giovanni Domenico da Nola

Italian composer and poet

Fernando Torres de Portugal y Mesía

Viceroy of Peru

Tümen Jasagtu Khan

Khagan of the Northern Yuan Dynasty

Girolamo Macchietti

Italian painter (1535-1592)

Françoise Babou de La Bourdaisière

mistress to Henry III of France

Battista Negrone

Ishikawa Kazumasa

Korean general (1553 - 1592)

Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu

English politician (1528-1592)

Francisco Vallés

Spanish physician (1524-1592)

John George of Ohlau

Duke of Oława and Wołów

Christoph Schwarz

German artist (1545-1592)

Fernando de Gurrea y Aragón

Aragonese nobleman; 5th Duke of Villahermosa

Christopher, Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch

Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch (1552-1592)