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== Births ==
[[File:Paul V Caravaggio.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Pope Paul V]]]]
[[File:Ana de San Bartolom%C3%A9.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Anne of Saint Bartholomew]]]]
[[File:Charles IX of Sweden.jpg|thumb|110px|King [[Charles IX of Sweden]]]]
* [[January 18]] &ndash; [[Tsugaru Tamenobu]], Japanese daimyō (d. [[1607]])
* [[February 17]] &ndash; [[Philip of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein]], Dutch army commander (d. [[1606]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tamse |first1=C. A. |title=Nassau en Oranje in de Nederlandse geschiedenis |date=1979 |publisher=A. W. Sijthoff |isbn=978-90-218-2447-5 |page=81 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CdVoAAAAMAAJ&q=%2217%20februari%201550%22 |access-date=3 October 2023 |language=nl}}</ref>
* [[February 22]] &ndash; [[Charles de Ligne, 2nd Prince of Arenberg]] (d. [[1616]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lipsius |first1=Justus |title=Iusti Lipsi epistolae |date=1978 |publisher=Koninklijke Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België |isbn=978-90-6569-655-7 |page=378 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c7UGAQAAIAAJ&q=%2222%20februari%201550%22 |access-date=3 October 2023 |language=nl}}</ref>
* [[March 6]] &ndash; [[Michelangelo Naccherino]], Italian sculptor (d. [[1622]])<ref>{{cite web |title=NACCHERINO, Michelangelo |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/michelangelo-naccherino_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29/ |website=Treccani |access-date=3 October 2023}}</ref>
* [[March 8]] &ndash; [[William Drury (MP for Suffolk)|William Drury]], English politician (d. [[1590]])<ref>{{cite web |title=DRURY, Sir William (1550-90) |url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/drury-sir-william-1550-90 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org |access-date=3 October 2023}}</ref>
* [[April 5]] &ndash; [[Andrés Pacheco]], Spanish churchman and theologian (d. [[1626]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Collado |first1=Ángel Fernández |title=Obispos de la provincia de Toledo (1500-2000) |date=2000 |publisher=I.T. San Ildefonso |isbn=978-84-920769-7-0 |page=68 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WrV6aewlgZQC&dq=Andr%C3%A9s+Pacheco+%225+de+abril+de+1550%22&pg=PA68 |access-date=3 October 2023 |language=es}}</ref>
* [[April 9]] &ndash; [[Giulio Pace]], Italian philosopher (d. [[1635]])<ref>{{cite web |title=PACE, Giulio |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giulio-pace_(Dizionario-Biografico) |website=Treccani |access-date=3 October 2023}}</ref>
* [[April 12]] &ndash; [[Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford]], Lord Great Chamberlain of England (d. [[1604]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Nelson |first1=Alan H. |title=Monstrous Adversary: The Life of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford |date=1 August 2003 |publisher=Liverpool University Press |isbn=978-1-78138-772-6 |page=7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rnRvEAAAQBAJ&q=12%20april%201550%22 |access-date=3 October 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[April 16]] &ndash; [[Francis Anthony]], English apothecary and physician (d. [[1623]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Stephen |first1=Leslie |last2=Lee |first2=Sir Sidney |title=The Dictionary of National Biography: From the Earliest Times to 1900 |date=1908 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=519 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ozc8AAAAIAAJ&dq=Francis+Anthony+%2216+april+1550%22&pg=PA519 |access-date=3 October 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[April 18]] &ndash; [[Alessandro Pieroni]], Italian painter (d. [[1607]])<ref>{{cite web |title=PIERONI, Alessandro |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/alessandro-pieroni_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/ |website=Treccani |access-date=3 October 2023}}</ref>
* [[May 8]] &ndash; [[John I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken]] (d. [[1604]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Kollectaneen-Blatt für die Geschichte Bayerns, insbesondere des ehemaligen Herzogtums Neuburg: insbesondere für die Geschichte der Stadt Neuburg |date=1864 |publisher=Grießmayer |page=7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ftFGAAAAcAAJ&dq=Johann+I.+pfalz+%228+mai+1550%22&pg=PA7 |access-date=3 October 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[May 25]] &ndash; [[Camillus de Lellis]], Italian saint and nurse (d. [[1614]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Todesco |first1=Luigi |title=Storia della Chiesa: La Chiesa al tempo del Rinascimento e della riforma |date=1958 |publisher=Marietti |page=350 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O1ObPtdZ9ZgC&q=%2225%20maggio%201550%22 |access-date=3 October 2023 |language=it}}</ref>
* [[June 16]] &ndash; [[Marie Eleonore of Cleves]], Duchess consort of Prussia (1573–1608) (d. [[1608]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kuhl |first1=Joseph |title=Der Jülicher kirchenstreit im 15. und 16. jahrhundert |date=1902 |publisher=P. Hanstein |page=57 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cBTWn282-gkC&dq=Marie+Eleonore+%2216+juni+1550%22&pg=PA57 |access-date=3 October 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[June 27]] &ndash; King [[Charles IX of France]] (d. [[1574]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Alexandre Dumas|title=La Reine Margot|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bvvDZvtzKzYC&pg=PA510|year=1999|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-283844-5|pages=510|language=en}}</ref>
* [[June 28]] &ndash; [[Johannes van den Driesche]], Flemish Protestant clergyman and scholar (d. [[1616]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Herzog |first1=Johann Jakob |title=Realencyklopädie für protestantische Theologie und Kirche |date=1898 |publisher=J.C. Hinrichs |page=46 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iEs9UqBFem4C&dq=Johannes+van+den+Driesche+%2228+juni+1550%22&pg=PA46 |access-date=3 October 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[July 3]] &ndash; [[Jacobus Gallus]], Slovenian composer (d. [[1591]])
* [[August 6]] &ndash; [[Enrico Caetani]], Italian Catholic cardinal (d. [[1599]])<ref>{{cite web |title=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of December 18, 1585 |url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1585-ii.htm#Caetani |website=cardinals.fiu.edu |access-date=3 October 2023}}</ref>
* [[August 8]] &ndash; [[Petrus Gudelinus]], Belgian jurist (d. [[1619]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Biographisch woordenboek der Nederlanden, bevattende levensbeschrijvingen van zoodanige personen, die zich op eenigerlei wijze in ons vaderland hebben vermaard gemaakt |date=1878 |publisher=Van Brederode |page=534 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i4dEZ6-sCmMC&dq=Petrus+Gudelinus+%228+augustus+1550%22&pg=PA534 |access-date=3 October 2023 |language=nl}}</ref>
* [[September 10]] &ndash; [[Alonso de Guzmán El Bueno, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia]], commander of the Spanish Armada (d. [[1615]])
* [[September 17]] &ndash; [[Pope Paul V]] (d. [[1621]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Charles George Herbermann|author2=Edward Aloysius Pace|author3=Condé Bénoist Pallen|title=The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tQkjAQAAIAAJ|year=1913|publisher=Encyclopedia Press|page=581}}</ref>
* [[September 29]] &ndash; [[Joachim Frederick of Brieg]], Duke of Wołów (1586–1602) (d. [[1602]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Boniecki |first1=Michał |title=Książęta szlązcy z domu Piastów: przyczynek do historyi rodzin panujących w Polsce, zebrany i ułożony przewaźnie z niemieckich źródeł. Zawiera okres od 1339 do 1612 roku. Część II-ga |date=1875 |publisher=Ed. Wende |page=355 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6NJhAAAAcAAJ&dq=Joachim+Fryderyk+%2229+wrze%C5%9Bnia+1550%22&pg=PA355 |access-date=3 October 2023 |language=pl}}</ref>
* [[September 30]] &ndash; [[Michael Maestlin]], German astronomer and mathematician (d. [[1631]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Seck |first1=Friedrich |title=Wissenschaftsgeschichte um Wilhelm Schickard: Vorträge bei dem Symposion der Universität Tübingen im 500. Jahr ihres Bestehens am 24. und 25. Juni 1977 |date=1981 |publisher=Franz Steiner Verlag |isbn=978-3-16-444151-3 |page=9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F-idGOW1OqoC&dq=Michael+Maestlin+%2230+september+1550%22&pg=PA9 |access-date=3 October 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[October 1]] &ndash; [[Anne of Saint Bartholomew]], Spanish Discalced Carmelite nun (d. [[1626]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Boletín de la Real Academia de la Historia |date=1917 |publisher=Real Academia de la Historia. |page=526 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oM82AQAAMAAJ&dq=Ana+de+San+Bartolom%C3%A9+%221+de+octubre+de+1550%22&pg=PA526 |access-date=3 October 2023 |language=es}}</ref>
* [[October 4]] &ndash; King [[Charles IX of Sweden]] (d. [[1611]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Grolier Incorporated|title=Academic American encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QI0xAQAAIAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Grolier|isbn=978-0-7172-2047-2|page=297}}</ref>
* [[October 8]] &ndash; [[Antonio Zapata y Cisneros]], Spanish cardinal (d. [[1635]])<ref>{{cite web |title=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of June 9, 1604 |url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1604.htm |website=cardinals.fiu.edu |access-date=3 October 2023}}</ref>
* [[October 25]] &ndash; [[Ralph Sherwin (priest)|Ralph Sherwin]], English Roman Catholic priest (martyred [[1581]])
* [[October 28]] &ndash; [[Stanislaus Kostka]], Polish saint (d. [[1568]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Leven van den heiligen Stanislaus Kostka: novice van het gezelschap van Jezus |date=1878 |publisher=Mosmans |page=3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=abZmAAAAcAAJ&q=%20%2228%20october%201550%22 |access-date=3 October 2023 |language=nl}}</ref>
* [[November 1]] &ndash; [[Henry of Saxe-Lauenburg]], Prince-Archbishop of Bremen, Prince-Bishop of Osnabruck and Paderborn (d. [[1585]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Schöne |first1=Armin |title=Die Erzbischöfe von Bremen und ihr Haus und Amt Langwedel: Geistliche und weltliche Herrschaft im Alten Reich, Band 1 |date=12 May 2016 |publisher=Edition Falkenberg |isbn=978-3-95494-088-2 |page=281 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zT3kCwAAQBAJ&dq=Heinrich+von+Sachsen-Lauenburg+1+november+1550&pg=PA281 |access-date=3 October 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[November 6]] &ndash; [[Karin Månsdotter]], Swedish queen (d. [[1612]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ahlqvist |first1=Alfred Gustaf |title=Karin Månsdotter |date=1874 |publisher=Central-tryckeriets förlag |page=2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8UT_fj-MPeIC&q=%226%20november%201550%22 |access-date=3 October 2023 |language=sv}}</ref>
* [[December 2]] &ndash; [[Antonio Fernández de Córdoba y Cardona]], Spanish diplomat (d. [[1606]])
* [[December 6]] &ndash; [[Orazio Vecchi]], Italian composer (d. [[1605]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Orazio Vecchi |date=1950 |publisher=Accademia di scienze, lettere e arti |location=Modena |page=9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_qFEAAAAMAAJ&q=%226%20dicembre%201550%22 |access-date=3 October 2023 |language=it}}</ref>
* [[December 7]] &ndash; Lithuanian noble [[Barbara Radziwiłł]], wife of [[Sigismund II Augustus]], King of Poland and Duke of Lithuania since 1547, has an elaborate coronation in [[Kraków]] as Queen consort and Grand Duchess, five months before her death at the age of 30.<ref>{{cite book |first=Robert |last=Frost |title=The Oxford History of Poland-Lithuania. Volume I: The Making of the Polish-Lithuanian Union, 1385-1569 |year=2015 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-820869-3 }}</ref>
* [[December 21]]
** [[Aegidius Hunnius]], German theologian (d. [[1603]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Seybold |first1=David Christoph |title=Zweihundert Hochachtbare Württemberger und unter ihnen weltberühmte |date=1892 |publisher=Grüninger |page=72 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=owiBwuVcK4cC&dq=Aegidius+Hunnius+%2221+december+1550%22&pg=PA72 |access-date=3 October 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
** [[Man Singh I]], Mughal noble (d. [[1614]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bhaṭṭ |first1=Rājendra Śaṅkara |title=Udaya Siṃha, Pratāpa Siṃha, Amara Siṃha, Mevāṛa ke Mahārāṇā aura Śāhaṃśāha Akabara: prācina ghaṭanāoṃ kā arvācīna adhyayan |date=1976 |publisher=Sphaṭika Saṃsthāna |page=213 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pNIrAQAAIAAJ&q=%2221%20%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%B0%201550%22 |access-date=3 October 2023 |language=hi}}</ref>
* [[December 22]] &ndash; [[Cesare Cremonini (philosopher)|Cesare Cremonini]], Italian philosopher (d. [[1631]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Archivio Veneto |date=1883 |publisher=Deputazione |page=439 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lyGoh0P2BYUC&dq=Cesare+Cremonini+%2222+dicembre+1550%22&pg=PA439 |access-date=3 October 2023 |language=it}}</ref>
* [[December 28]] &ndash; [[Vicente Espinel]], Spanish writer (d. [[1624]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Haley |first1=George |title=Vicente Espinel y Marcos de Obregón: biografía, autobiografía y novela |date=1994 |publisher=Diputación Provincial de Málaga |page=29 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9tYF3L7qmBoC&q=%2228%20de%20diciembre%20de%201550%22 |access-date=3 October 2023 |language=es}}</ref>
* [[December 28]] &ndash; [[Abu al-Abbas Ahmad III]], the Sultan of [[Ifriqiya]] (now Tunisia), signs a six-year treaty with Spain.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Brogini |first1=Anne |last2=Ghazali |first2=Maria |title= Un enjeu espagnol en Méditerranée : les présides de Tripoli et de La Goulette au XVIe siècle |journal=Crises, Conflicts and Wars in the Mediterranean |date=2005 |volume=1 |issue=70 |page=87 |url= https://journals.openedition.org/cdlm/840 |doi=10.4000/cdlm.840 |access-date=20 February 2021}}</ref> 
* [[December 29]] &ndash; [[García de Silva Figueroa]], Spanish diplomat and traveller (d. [[1624]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Alonso |first1=Carlos |title=La embajada a Persia de D. García de Silva y Figueroa (1612-1624) |date=1993 |publisher=Departamento de Publicaciones, Excma. Diputación Provincial de Badajoz |isbn=978-84-7796-851-1 |page=21 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fht_ClWIBjcC&q=%2229%20de%20diciembre%20de%201550%22 |access-date=3 October 2023 |language=es}}</ref>
* [[December 31]] &ndash; [[Henry I, Duke of Guise]] (d. [[1588]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Williamson |first1=Jayne Maloof |title=The War of the Three Henries: Why?: The Motives Prompting Henri de Navarre, Henry de Guise, and Henri III to Engage in War, 1585-1589 |date=1968 |publisher=University of Wisconsin--Madison |page=54 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qGdmAAAAMAAJ&q=Henry+I+%2231+december+1550%22 |access-date=3 October 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* ''date unknown''
** [[Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi]], Polish Jewish author (d. [[1625]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Landman |first1=Isaac |title=The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia in 10 Volumes: An Authoritative and Popular Presentation of Jews and Judaism Since the Earliest Times |date=1939 |publisher=Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, Incorporated |page=544 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z7dtAAAAMAAJ&dq=Jacob+ben+Isaac+Ashkenazi+%221550%22&pg=PA544 |access-date=3 October 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
** [[Willem Barentsz]], [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[navigator]] and [[explorer]] (d. [[1597]])
** [[Anselmus de Boodt]], Belgian mineralogist and physician (d. [[1632]])<ref>{{cite web |title=[Boodt, Anselmus Boëtius de] |url=https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/molh003nieu06_01/molh003nieu06_01_0254.php |website=DBNL |access-date=3 October 2023 |language=nl}}</ref>
** [[Matthijs Bril]], Flemish painter (d. [[1583]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ruby |first1=Louisa Wood |title=Paul Bril: The Drawings |date=1999 |publisher=Brepols |isbn=978-2-503-50577-0 |page=11 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B3_qAAAAMAAJ&q=1550 |access-date=3 October 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
** [[Helena Antonia]], Austrian court dwarf  (d. [[1595]])
** [[Sarsa Dengel]], [[Emperor of Ethiopia]] (d. [[1597]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Adejumobi |first1=Saheed A. |title=The History of Ethiopia |date=30 December 2006 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=978-0-313-08823-0 |page=169 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7rjOEAAAQBAJ&dq=Sarsa+Dengel+%221550%22&pg=PA169 |access-date=3 October 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
** [[Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone]], Irish rebel (d. [[1616]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=O'Faoláin |first1=Seán |title=The great O'Neill, a biography of Hugh O'Neill, earl of Tyrone, 1550-1616 |date=1942 |publisher=Duell, Sloan and Pearce |location=New York |page=361 |url=https://archive.org/details/greatoneill0000unse/page/360/mode/2up?q=1550 |access-date=3 October 2023}}</ref>
** [[John Napier]], Scottish mathematician (d. [[1617]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Havil |first1=Julian |title=John Napier: Life, Logarithms, and Legacy |date=5 October 2014 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-1-4008-5218-5 |page=9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gb7BAwAAQBAJ&q=1550 |access-date=3 October 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* ''probable''
** [[Robert Balfour (philosopher)|Robert Balfour]], Scottish philosopher (d. [[1625]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Forbes-Leith |first1=William |title=Pre-reformation Scholars in Scotland in the XVIth Century: Their Writings and Their Public Services : with a Bibliography and a List of Graduates from 1500 to 1560 |date=1915 |publisher=J. MacLehose |page=95 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=haFDAAAAIAAJ&dq=Robert+Balfour+%221550%22&pg=PA95 |access-date=4 October 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
** [[Henry Barrowe]], English Puritan and Separatist (d. [[1593]])<ref>{{cite ODNB |title=Barrow, Henry |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-1540|year=2004 |access-date=4 October 2023 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/1540}}</ref>
** [[Emilio de' Cavalieri]], Italian composer (d. [[1602]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Comerford |first1=Kathleen |title=Jesuit Foundations and Medici Power, 1532–1621 |date=7 November 2016 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-30057-6 |page=79 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RHxyDQAAQBAJ&dq=Emilio+de%27+Cavalieri+%221550%22&pg=PA79 |access-date=4 October 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
** [[Cornelis Corneliszoon]], Dutch inventor of the [[sawmill]] (d. c. [[1600]])
** [[Philip Henslowe]], English theatrical entrepreneur (d. [[1616]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Carson |first1=Neil |title=A Companion to Henslowe's Diary |date=5 January 2004 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-54346-0 |page=1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HGieHbn2mBcC&dq=Philip+Henslowe+%221550%22+lindfield&pg=PA1 |access-date=4 October 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
** [[Brianda Pereira]], Azorean Portuguese heroine (d. [[1620]])