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Willem Barents
Dutch navigator, cartographer, and Arctic explorer (1550–1597)
Joseph of Anchieta
Spanish Jesuit missionary (1534-1597)
Pratap Singh
16th century ruler of Mewar, India
Peter Canisius
Dutch, Jesuit priest, Doctor of the Church, Roman Catholic saint
Francesco Patrizi
Venetian philosopher and scientist (1529-1597)
Paul Miki
Roman Catholic Japanese Jesuit seminarian and martyr
Catalina Micaela of Spain
Austrian archduchess (1567-1597)
Hattori Hanzō
samurai of the Sengoku era; famous as ninja master
Gunilla Bielke
Queen of Sweden (1568-1597)
Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan
Japanese missonaries and converts to the Catholic church, venerated as Saints
Edward Kelley
English alchemist
Fernando de Herrera
Spanish poet (1534-1597)
Luís Fróis
Portuguese missionary (1532–1597)
Alfonso II d'Este
duke of Ferrara from 1559 to 1597 (1533–1597)
Giovanni Leonardo Di Bona
Italian chess player
Ashikaga Yoshiaki
15th shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate of Japan (1568–1573)
Jakub Wujek
Polish religious writer
Won Gyun
Korean general and admiral during the Joseon Dynasty (1540 -1597)
Prospero Fontana
Italian painter (1512-1597)
Barbara Blomberg
German mistress
Princess Elizabeth of Sweden
Swedish princess; daughter of Gustav I of Sweden and Margaret Leijonhufvud (1549-1597)
Severyn Nalyvaiko
Ukrainian Cossack hetman
Lucas van Valckenborch
Flemish painter (c.1535-1597)
Fetih I Giray
Crimean khan
Gabriele Paleotti
Italian cardinal
Gonsalo Garcia
Friar Minor, martyr and saint
Archduchess Gregoria Maximiliana of Austria
Austrian archduchess
Yi Bok-nam
Korean naval commander (1555-1597)
Klaus Fleming
Swedish admiral (1535-1597)
Barbara of Hesse
16th-century German noblewoman
Philip of Jesus
Catholic misionary
Aaron the Tyrant
Prince of Moldavia
Sarsa Dengel
Ethiopian Emperor
James Kisai
one of the Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan
Marco Antonio Colonna
Roman Catholic cardinal
Frederick, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Vohenstrauss-Parkstein
German Count Palantine
Franciscus Raphelengius
Flemish orientalist, text editor, printer, professor (1539-1597)
Théophane Ier de Constantinople
orthodox Bishop of Philippopolis and Athens and patriarch of Constantinople
Hendrick van den Broeck
Flemish renaissance painter (1530-1597)
Alexandru cel Rău
Prince of Wallachia
William I, Count of Schwarzburg-Frankenhausen
Count of Schwarzburg-Frankenhausen (1534-1597)
John Norreys
Irish politician (1547-1597)
Elias Ammerbach
German organist and transcriber
James Burbage
British actor (1531–1597)
Kobayakawa Takakage
samurai
Blas Valera
Peruvian writer and historian
Aldus Manutius the Younger
Italian printer (1547-1597)
Kurushima Michifusa
samurai
Gilbert Génébrard
French Benedictine exegete, orientalist and archbishop (1535-1597)
Jakobea of Baden
Margravine of Baden by birth, Duchess of Jülich-Cleves-Berg by marriage (1558-1597)
Francisco Blanco
martyr
Filippo Terzi
ITalian military engineer and architect
Yi Ŏkki
Korean admiral (1561 - 1597)
William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham
English noble and politician
Mōri Motokiyo
samurai
Hōjō Ujikuni
Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period; son of daimyo Hōjō Ujiyasu
Markus Fugger
German businessman (1529-1597)
Park Jin
Korean naval commander (1560–1597)
Pieter van Foreest
Dutch classical scholar
Stanisław Sarnicki
Polish noble and scholar