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Emperor Rudolf II

Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary and Croatia, King of Bohemia and Archduke of Austria (1552-1612)

Vasili IV of Russia

Tsar of Russia (1606–1610)

Giovanni Gabrieli

Italian composer (1557–1612)

Christopher Clavius

German astronomer and mathematician (1538–1612)

Federico Barocci

Italian painter (1535-1612)

Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales

eldest son and heir apparent of James VI and I

Vincenzo Gonzaga

Duke of Mantua and Montferrat (1562-1612)

Hans Leo Hassler

German composer and organist (1564-1612)

Giovanni Battista Guarini

Anne Catherine of Brandenburg

Queen consort of Norway and Denmark

Karin Månsdotter

Swedish queen consort (1550-1612)

Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury

English Earl (1563-1612)

Jodocus Hondius I

Flemish and Dutch engraver and cartographer (1563–1612)

Polish writer (1536-1612)

Japanese swordsman

English courtier, Queens godson and author

Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah

6th ruler of the kingdom of Golconda in southern India

Hermogenes of Moscow

Francesco IV Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua

Duke of Mantua and Montferrat (1586-1612)

English minister

Ernest of Bavaria

Roman Catholic bishop (1554-1612)

Leonardo Donato

Doge of Venice (1536-1612)

Juan de la Cueva de Garoza

False Dmitry III

pretender to the Russian throne

Giovanni de' Bardi

Italian composer and writer

Bernardino Poccetti

Italian painter (1548-1612)

Charles, Count of Soissons

Lieutenant General of New France (1566-1612)

Spanish archbishop

Japanese noble (1536-1612)

Italian engraver (1547–1612)

Elizabeth Jane Weston

English-born Bohemian poet (1580s–1612)

Christian samurai of the Sengoku period. leader of Tenshō embassy

Joseph of Leonessa

Giacomo Boncompagni

Illegitimate son of a Pope

Dutch engraver and publisher (1537–1612)

Philip Louis II, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg

Count of Hanau-Münzenberg (1576-1612)

, also known as was a Japanese woman from the Sengoku period to the Azuchi–Momoyama period. She was the daughter of Saitō Dōsan, a Sengoku Daimyō of the Mino Province, and the lawful wife of Oda Nobunaga, a Sengoku Daimyō of the Owari Province.

Edward Seymour, Viscount Beauchamp

English noble (1561-1612)

István Szamosközy

Hungarian humanist and historian

Maeda Toshimasu

Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period

Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg

Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (1551–1612)

Anne d'Escars de Givry

Catholic cardinal (1546-1612)

Satake Yoshishige

Ercole Bottrigari

Italian Renaissance man (1531-1612)

Bohemian rabbi (c. 1530 – 1612)

Constantin Movilă

prince of Moldavia

Zofia of Słuck

Polish noble and saint

Chinese bureaucrat (1550-1612)

Hendrik Laurenszoon Spiegel

Charles III de Croÿ

Belgian noble (1560-1612)

Emanuel van Meteren

Flemish historian, consul for Low Countries traders in London (1535–1612)

Stephan Gerlach

German theologian (1546-1612)

Preacher and reformer (1541-1612)

Sengoku Hidehisa

Charles de Montmorency-Damville

French politician (1537-1612)

English priest, martyr, and saint

British noble (1538-1612)