1564

Years: 1561 1562 1563 - 1564 - 1565 1566 1567
Decades: 1530s 1540s 1550s - 1560s - 1570s 1580s 1590s
Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

February 15 - Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist (died 1642)
February 26 - Christopher Marlowe, English poet and dramatist (died 1593)
March 9 - David Fabricius, Frisian astronomer (died 1617)
April 26 (baptized) - William Shakespeare, English poet and dramatist (died 1616)
September 24 - William Adams, English navigator and samurai (died 1620)
November 22 - Henry Brooke, 8th Baron Cobham, English peer and traitor (died 1619)
William Bathe, Jesuit priest
Abraham Bloemaert, Dutch painter and engraver (died 1651)
Daniel Chamier, minister of religion in France (died 1621)
Henry Chettle, English dramatist (died 1607)
Kryštof Harant z Polžic a Bezdružic, Bohemian composer and protestant rebel (beheaded 1621)
Paul Miki, Japanese Catholic saint and martyr (died 1597)
Thomas Morton, English churchman (died 1659)
Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland (died 1632)
Francisco Pacheco, Spanish painter (died 1654)
Pedro Páez, Jesuit missionary in Ethiopia (died 1622)
Thomas Shirley, English pirate (died 1620)
Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Flemish painter (died 1638)

January 4 - Hosokawa Ujitsuna, Japanese military commander (b. 1514)
February 18 - Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian artist and architect (born 1475)
May 2 - Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist (b. 1500)
May 27 - John Calvin, French protestant reformer (born 1509)
July 27 - Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1503)
October 5 - Pierre de Manchicourt, Flemish composer
October 15 - Vesalius, Flemish anatomist (born 1514)
October 18 - Johannes Acronius Frisius, German physician and mathematician (born 1520)
Pierre Belon, French naturalist (born 1517)
Giovanni da Udine, Italian painter (born 1487)
Purandara Dasa, Indian musician
Charles Etienne, French anatomist (born 1503)
Guillaume Morel, French classical scholar (born 1505)
Manus O'Donnell, Irish leader
Maurice Scève, French poet (born 1500)
Luis de Velasco, Viceroy of New Spain (born 1511)

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