 | Francois Rabelais | 1483-1494 | 1534 | | 1552 | 1553, Apr 9 |
| | a major French Renaissance writer, doctor, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar. He has h... |
 | Francis Xavier | 1506, Apr 7 | 1534 | | 1552 | 1552, Dec 3 |
| | a Navarrese Roman Catholic missionary, born in Javier (Xavier in Navarro-Aragonese), Kingdom of N... |
 | Erasmus Reinhold | 1511, Oct 22 | 1536 | | 1553 | 1553, feb 19 |
| | a German astronomer and mathematician, considered to be the most influential astronomical pedagog... |
| Ignatius of Loyola | 1491, Oct 23 | 1508 | | 1555 | 1556, Jul 31 |
| | a Spanish priest and theologian, who founded the religious order called the Society of Jesus (Jes... |
 | Miles Huggarde | unknown | 1533 | | 1557 | unknown |
| | an English religious pamphleteer and opponent of the Protestant Reformation. He has been describe... |
| Nicholas Brigham | unknown | 1550 | | 1558 | 1558 |
| | a Latin scholar and antiquarian, who gave up literature to practise in the law courts, and who fl... |
| Louis Maigret | unknown | 1530 | | 1559 | unknown |
| | the author of the Tretté de la Grammaire française, which was published in 1550. This was the f... |
| Jean de Beaugue | unknown | 1540 | | 1559 | unknown |
| | a French soldier who served in Scotland in the 1540s during the war of the Rough Wooing. He wrote... |
| Robert Burrant | unknown | 1540 | | 1559 | unknown |
| | an English translator. He authored works such as an edition of Sir David Lindsays Tragical Death ... |
| Joachim du Bellay | 1522 ca | 1547 | | 1559 | 1560, Jan 1 |
| | a French poet, critic, and a member of the Pléiade. In 1548 appeared the Art poétique of Thomas... |
| John Angel | unknown | 1550 | | 1559 | unknown |
| | a chaplain to King Philip and Queen Mary I, is said to have been a 'person of singular zeal and l... |
| Anthony Ascham | unknown | 1550 | | 1559 | unknown |
| | an English astrologer who wrote various treatises about astronomical and astrological matters. As... |
| William Bavand | unknown | 1550 | | 1559 | unknown |
| | an English writer. Bavand, having been educated at Oxford, became a student in the Middle Temple,... |
| Robert Braham | unknown | 1550 | | 1559 | unknown |
| | an English editor. In 1555, he edited The Auncient Historic and onely trewe and syncere Cronicle ... |
| John Brett | unknown | 1550 | | 1559 | unknown |
| | a messenger for Mary I of England when she tried to have the Marian exiles returned to England. V... |
 | John Gwynneth | unknown | 1550 | | 1559 | unknown |
| | a Welsh Catholic divine and musician. He was educated at Oxford. In due course he was ordained pr... |
 | Tadhg O Cobhthaigh | unknown | 1550 | | 1559 | unknown |
| | an Irish poet. Ó Cobhthaigh was a member of a hereditary bardic family based in what is now Coun... |
| Sabina Welserin | unknown | 1550 | | 1559 | unknown |
| | the author of a German cookbook, Das Kochbuch der Sabina Welserin, which she dated 1553 in her br... |
| Philip Melanchthon | 1497, Feb 16 | 1514 | | 1560 | 1560, Apr 19 |
| | a German reformer, collaborator with Martin Luther, the first systematic theologian of the Protes... |
 | Alan Balatine | unknown | 1530 | | 1560 | unknown |
| | a supposed historian mentioned by Edward Hall in the list of the English writers from whose works... |
 | Michelangelo | 1475, Mar 6 | 1490 | | 1564 | 1564, Feb 18 |
| | an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance who exerted a... |
| Lewys Morgannwg | unknown | 1520 | | 1565 | unknown |
| | a Welsh language poet from Morgannwg, south Wales. He lived at St. Bride's Major Lewys was one of... |
 | Suleiman I | 1494, Nov 6 | 1520 | | 1566 | 1566, Sep 7 |
| | the tenth and longest-reigning Sultan and Caliph (Sunni Islam) of the Ottoman Empire/Caliphate, ... |
| Michel de Nostradamus | 1503, Dec 14 | 1521 | | 1566 | 1566, Jul 2 |
| | a French apothecary and reputed seer who published collections of prophecies that have since beco... |
| Philibert de l'Orme | 1514 ca | 1540 | | 1567 | 1570, Jan 8 |
| | a French architect, one of the great masters of the French Renaissance; also wrote two books on a... |
| Benvenuto Cellini | 1500, Nov 3 | 1519 | | 1569 | 1571, Feb 13 |
| | an Italian goldsmith, sculptor, draftsman, soldier, musician, and artist who also wrote a famous ... |
| Giorgio Vasari | 1511, Jul 30 | 1530 | | 1569 | 1574, Jun 27 |
| | an Italian painter, architect, writer and historian, most famous today for his Lives of the Most ... |
| Jeronimo de Vivar | unknown | 1540 | | 1569 | unknown |
| | a Spanish historian of the early conquest and settlement of the Kingdom of Chile, and author of C... |
| William Baldwin | unknown | 1547 | | 1569 | unknown |
| | an English author. From the West Country, England, Baldwin studied logic and philosophy at Oxford... |
| John Phillip | unknown | 1550 | | 1569 | unknown |
| | an English poet and dramatist of the Elizabethan era. He is known for his play The Commodye of Pa... |
| John Barthlet | unknown | 1560 | | 1569 | unknown |
| | an English theological writer. Barthlet was a minister of the Church of England, and held strongl... |
| Robert Fills | unknown | 1560 | | 1569 | unknown |
| | an English-French translator who translated works from French into English. In 1562, Fills publis... |
| Goddred Gylby | unknown | 1560 | | 1569 | unknown |
| | an English translator. These is very little that is known about his life. A son of Anthony Gilby,... |
| Thomas Harman | unknown | 1560 | | 1569 | unknown |
| | A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors, vulgarly called vagabonds was first published in 1566 b... |
| Abraham Hartwell the Elder | unknown | 1560 | | 1569 | unknown |
| | an English poet, who wrote in Latin. When Richard Shacklock published a translation of a letter w... |
| John Rolland | unknown | 1560 | | 1569 | unknown |
| | a Scottish poet who appears to have been a priest of the diocese of Glasgow, and to have been kno... |
| Aonghus Fionn O Dalaigh | unknown | 1520 | | 1570 | unknown |
| | an Irish poet. Thought to have been born in County Meath, Aonghus Fionn was the head of the branc... |
| Arthur ap Huw | unknown | 1555 | | 1570 | unknown |
| | a clergyman, patron of Welsh poets, and a translator of religious literature into Welsh. He was a... |
| John Knox | 1513 ca | 1546 | | 1572 | 1572, Nov 24 |
| | a Scottish clergyman, theologian, and writer who was a leader of the Protestant Reformation and i... |
| Isabella Whitney | 1547 ca | 1567 | | 1573 | unknown |
| | the earliest identified woman to have published secular poetry in the English language. She has b... |
| Donald Monro | unknown | 1526 | | 1574 | unknown |
| | a Scottish clergyman, who wrote an early and historically valuable description of the Hebrides an... |
| Jean Bullant | 1515 | 1537 | | 1574 | 1578, Oct 13 |
| | a French architect and sculptor who built the tombs of Anne de Montmorency, Grand Connétable of ... |
 | Paulus Juusten | 1516/20 | 1563 | | 1575 | 1575, Aug 22 |
| | the first bishop of Viipuri, and later, bishop of Turku for the Lutheran Finish Church from 1563 ... |
| John Awdely | unknown | 1559 | | 1577 | unknown |
| | an English printer in London, known as a writer of popular and miscellaneous works. Many of his p... |
| Edward Cradock | unknown | 1570 | | 1579 | unknown |
| | an English theologian and alchemist. In 1571 he published The Shippe of assured Safetie, wherein ... |
| Alonso de Contreras | unknown | 1580 | | 1580 | unknown |
| | a Spanish sailor (captain of a frigate), soldier (captain of infantry and then of cavalry), priva... |
| George Buchanan | 1506, Feb | 1529 | | 1582 | 1582, Sep 28 |
| | a Scottish historian and humanist scholar. According to historian Keith Brown, Buchanan was "the... |
 | Jan Kochanowski | 1530 | 1559 | | 1584 | 1584, Aug 22 |
| | a Polish Renaissance poet who established poetic patterns that would become integral to the Polis... |
| Donnchadh O Cobhthaigh | unknown | 1584 | | 1584 | unknown |
| | an Irish poet. He was the author of a penitential composition, Acht mar uisge d'éis a leata ("Ju... |
| Mathghamhain O hIfearnain | unknown | 1585 | | 1585 | unknown |
| | early modern Irish poet, fl. 1585. Ó hIfearnáin was living in the Shronell district of County T... |
| Sir Philip Sidney | 1554, Nov 30 | 1572 | | 1586 | 1586, Oct 17 |
| | an English poet, courtier, scholar, and soldier, who is remembered as one of the most prominent f... |
| Muircheartach O Cobhthaigh | unknown | 1586 | | 1586 | unknown |
| | an Irish poet. A member of the Ó Cobhthaigh clan of poets from County Westmeath. He is known as ... |
| John Bellenden | unknown | 1533 | | 1587 | unknown |
| | a Scottish writer of the 16th century. At the request of James V he translated Hector Boece's His... |
| Mary Stuart | 1542, Dec 8 | 1558 | | 1587 | 1587, Feb 8 |
| | reigned over Scotland from 14 December 1542 to 24 July 1567. As Mary was an infant when she inher... |
| Christopher Borough | unknown | 1579 | | 1587 | unknown |
| | an English adventurer, navigator and translator and the chronicler of one of the most interesting... |
| Francois Hotman | 1524, Aug 23 | 1542 | | 1589 | 1590, Feb 12 |
| | a French Protestant lawyer and writer, associated with the legal humanists and with the monarchom... |
| Thomas Brasbridge | 1547 | 1570 | | 1589 | 1593 |
| | an English divine and author. At Oxford he studied both divinity and medicine, and remained to te... |
| Jaques De Lavardin | unknown | 1570 | | 1589 | unknown |
| | a lord in Plessis-Bourrot, squire and noble of the king of France, known for the translation of t... |
| Thomas Barbar | unknown | 1580 | | 1589 | unknown |
| | an English divine. His name is attached to the ‘Book of Discipline,’ and he belonged to the p... |
| Thomas Bowes | unknown | 1580 | | 1589 | unknown |
| | an English translator. Bowes was educated at Clare College, Cambridge, graduating BA in 1579–80... |
| Thomas D'Oyly | unknown | 1580 | | 1589 | unknown |
| | an English antiquary. He became a member of the Society of Antiquaries. Two of his contributions ... |
| Bertrand de Loque | unknown | 1580 | | 1589 | 1600+ |
| | a Protestant minister, said to be the same person as François de Saillans, who was born in Valen... |
| George Etherege [2] | unknown | 1580 | | 1589 | unknown |
| | an English classical scholar and physician. He lived with his family in ‘an ancient decayed pal... |
| Diarmait O Cobhthaigh | unknown | 1580 | | 1589 | unknown |
| | a member of a hereditary bardic family, based in what is now County Westmeath but was once the he... |
| Morus Dwyfech | unknown | 1520 | | 1590 | unknown |
| | a Welsh-language poet. There is very little information available concerning the details of his l... |
| Pilip Ballach O Duibhgeannain | unknown | 1579 | | 1590 | unknown |
| | an Irish historian. A member of the Clan Ó Duibhgeannáin and a hereditary historian, Pilip was ... |
| Pasquill | unknown | 1589 | | 1590 | unknown |
| | the pseudonym adopted by a defender of the Anglican hierarchy in an English political and theolog... |
| William Webbe | unknown | 1568 | | 1591 | unknown |
| | an English critic and translator. Little is known about him except that he attended Trinity Colle... |
| Michel de Montaigne | 1533, Feb 28 | 1546 | | 1592 | 1592, Sep 13 |
| | one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the es... |
| Christopher Carleill | 1551 ca | 1573 | | 1593 | 1593 |
| | an English military and naval commander. In 1588, he was appointed constable of Carrickfergus, Co... |
| Christopher Marlowe | 1564, Feb | 1587 | | 1593 | 1593, May 30 |
| | an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe was the foremost Eliza... |
| Thomas Kyd | 1558, Nov | 1580 | | 1594 | 1594, Aug |
| | an English playwright, the author of The Spanish Tragedy, and one of the most important fi... |
| Thomas Edwards [1] | unknown | 1587 | | 1595 | 1595 |
| | writer, poet |
| Edmund Spenser | 1552/53 | 1578 | | 1596 | 1599, Jan 13 |
| | an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory ce... |
| Thomas Hudson | unknown | 1580 | | 1599 | 1605 ca |
| | a musician and poet from the north of England present at the Scottish court of King James VI at t... |
| Thomas Nashe | 1567 | 1588 | | 1599 | 1601 ca |
| | considered the greatest of the English Elizabethan pamphleteers, also a playwright, poet, and sat... |
| Philip Barrow | unknown | 1590 | | 1599 | unknown |
| | an English medical writer. Barrow was the son of John Barrow, of Suffolk. He obtained from the un... |
| Anthony Chute | unknown | 1590 | | 1599 | 1595 |
| | an Elizabethan poet and pamphleteer. Very little is known about him. In 1593, Chute published Bea... |
| William Clerke | unknown | 1590 | | 1599 | unknown |
| | an English writer. Clerke matriculated as a sizar of Trinity College, Cambridge, in June 1575, be... |
| Robert Gwin | unknown | 1590 | | 1599 | unknown |
| | a Welsh Roman Catholic priest and author. Gwin, who appears to have been alive in 1591, wrote sev... |
| Simon Kellwaye | unknown | 1590 | | 1599 | unknown |
| | Wrote Defense Against The Plague in 1593 |
| Giordano Bruno | 1548, Jan 1 | 1572 | | 1600 | 1600, Feb 17 |
| | an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist. He is re... |
| Edward Guilpin | 1573 ca | 1598 | | 1601 | 1607 |
| | poet and satirist, was the eldest child of John Guilpin and Thomasin Everard, who had been marrie... |
| Richard Stanihurst | 1547 | 1582 | | 1602 | 1618 |
| | an Irish alchemist, translator, poet and historian, born in Dublin. Richard was sent to Peter Whi... |
 | W. Watson | unknown | 1602 | | 1602 | unknown |
| | Referenced only in period dictionaries under the word Aulic |
| Queen Elizabeth I | 1533, Sep 7 | 1558 | | 1603 | 1603, Mar 24 |
| | Queen of England and Ireland (and Supreme Governor of the Church of England ) from 17 November 15... |
| Sir Robert Dudley [2] | 1574, Aug 7 | 1594 | | 1603 | 1649, Sep 6 |
| | an English explorer and cartographer. In 1594, he led an expedition to the West Indies, of which ... |
| Edward Hake | unknown | 1570 | | 1604 | unknown |
| | an English satirist, educated under John Hopkins, known for being the part-author of the metrica... |
| John Dee | 1527, Jul 13 | 1546 | | 1605 | 1609 ca |
| | an English mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, occult philosopher, imperialist, and adviser to... |
| Sir Geoffrey Fenton | 1539 ca | 1567 | | 1608 | 1608, Oct 19 |
| | an English writer, Privy Councillor, and Principal Secretary of State in Ireland. Geoffrey is sai... |
| Nicholas Faunt | unknown | 1572 | | 1608 | unknown |
| | an English clerk of the signet, agent of the Crown, and politician. Early in 1581 he spent three ... |
 | Al-Masfiwi | unknown | 1570 | | 1609 | unknown |
| | a poet in the time of Ahmad al-Mansur. The surviving poetry of al-Masfiwi can be found in Manahil... |
| William Phiston | unknown | 1571 | | 1609 | unknown |
| | an English translator and author. He describes himself as "a student of London", and had some lea... |
| Thomas Fale | unknown | 1590 | | 1609 | unknown |
| | an English mathematician. His only known publication is Horologiographia. (1593). It is dedicated... |
| Anthony Shirley | 1565 | 1590 | | 1609 | 1637 |
| | an English traveller, whose imprisonment in 1603 by King James I caused the English House of Comm... |
| Robert Allott | unknown | 1600 | | 1609 | unknown |
| | an Elizabethan editor of poetry who published the verse compilation England's Parnassus in 1600. ... |
| John Chalkhill | unknown | 1600 | | 1609 | unknown |
| | an English poet. Two songs by him are included in Izaak Walton's Compleat Angler, and in 1683 app... |
| Emanuel Ford | unknown | 1600 | | 1609 | unknown |
| | an Elizabethan romancer. There is very little information available about the details of his life... |
| Aindrais MacMarcuis | unknown | 1600 | | 1609 | unknown |
| | an Irish poet. There is little information available about his life or career. MacMarcuis is main... |
| Fear Feasa O'n Chainte | unknown | 1600 | | 1609 | unknown |
| | an Irish poet. Native of Munster, and a member of the Ó an Cháintighe bardic family. Very littl... |
 | Stavrianos Vistiaris | unknown | 1600 | | 1609 | unknown |
| | a Greek poet born in the village of Malcani, in modern Sarande District, a region of Albania that... |
| Thomas Wright [1] | unknown | 1600 | | 1609 | unknown |
| | an English writer, a protégé of Henry Wriothesley, third earl of Southampton, who had travelled... |
| Robert Yarington | unknown | 1600 | | 1609 | unknown |
| | an English Playwright, most famous for his two Tragedies. They were printed for Matthew Law, and ... |
| Thomas Bell | 1551 | 1573 | | 1610 | unknown |
| | an English Roman Catholic priest, and later an anti-Catholic writer. He was mentioned in 1592 as ... |
| Lochlann Og O Dalaigh | unknown | 1610 | | 1610 | unknown |
| | an early modern Irish poet. A native of Munster and a member of the Ó Dálaigh clan of poets, he... |
| William Fowler | 1560 ca | 1581 | | 1612 | 1612 |
| | a Scottish poet, writer, courtier, and translator. Fowler was part of a literary circle around Ki... |
| Richard Hakluyt | 1553 | 1583 | | 1612 | 1616, Nov 23 |
| | an English writer. He is known for promoting the British colonisation of North America by the Eng... |
| William Shakespeare | 1564 ca | 1585 | | 1613 | 1616 |
| | an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English lan... |
| Sir Thomas Overbury | 1581 | 1601 | | 1613 | 1613, Sep 14 |
| | an English poet and essayist, also known for being the victim of a murder which led to a scandalo... |
| Vincenzo Scamozzi | 1548, Sep 2 | 1568 | | 1614 | 1616, Aug 7 |
| | an Italian architect and a writer on architecture, active mainly in Vicenza and Republic of Venic... |
| Mary Sidney | 1561, Oct 27 | 1575 | | 1615 | 1621, Sep 25 |
| | one of the first English women to achieve a major reputation for her poetry and literary patronag... |
| Miguel de Cervantes | 1547, Sep 29 | 1569 | | 1616 | 1616, Apr 22 |
| | a Spanish writer who is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of... |
 | Pieter Cornelisz van der Morsch | 1543 | 1598 | | 1616 | 1628 |
| | a man in Leiden best known today for his portrait that was painted by Frans Hals in 1616. He was ... |
| Lughaidh O Cleirigh | unknown | 1603 | | 1616 | unknown |
| | an Irish Gaelic poet and historian. He is best known today as the author of Beatha Aodha Ruaidh ... |
| Sir Henry Mainwaring | 1587 | 1610 | | 1616 | 1653 |
| | an English lawyer, soldier, author, seaman and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 16... |
| Franz Schmidt | 1555 | 1573 | | 1617 | 1634 |
| | an executioner in Hof from 1573 to April 1578, and from 1 May 1578 till the end of 1617 execution... |
| John Thornborough | 1551 | 1593 | | 1617 | 1641 |
| | an English bishop. In a long ecclesiastical career, he was employed as a chaplain by the Earl of ... |
| Thomas Coryat | 1577 ca | 1603 | | 1617 | 1617 |
| | an English traveller and writer of the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean age. He is principally... |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | 1554 ca | 1569 | | 1618 | 1618, Oct 29 |
| | an English landed gentleman, writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy, and explorer. He i... |
| Thomas Ashe [1] | unknown | 1600 | | 1618 | unknown |
| | an English legal writer. Ashe entered as a student of Gray's Inn in 1574, was called to the bar 2... |
| Thomas Bretnor | unknown | 1600 | | 1619 | unknown |
| | an almanac maker. Bretnor calls himself on the title-page of one of his almanacs 'student in astr... |
| Emilia Lanier | 1569, Jan 27 | 1600 | | 1619 | 1645, Apr 3 |
| | the first Englishwoman to assert herself as a professional poet through her single volume of poem... |
| John Andrews [1] | unknown | 1610 | | 1619 | unknown |
| | an English poet. Andrews was the author of a poem called the ‘Anatomie of Basenesse’ (1615), ... |
| Robert Anton | unknown | 1610 | | 1619 | unknown |
| | an English poet and satirist. A unique quarto prose tract of Anton's, in black letter, entitled M... |
| Henry Austin [1] | unknown | 1610 | | 1619 | unknown |
| | an English poet postulated by Alexander Balloch Grosart as author of The Scourge of Venus, or the... |
| Yusuf Biscaino | unknown | 1610 | | 1619 | unknown |
| | a Morisco in the service of the Moroccan Sultan Mulay Zidan. He was sent as an ambassador to the ... |
| Robert Carliell | unknown | 1610 | | 1619 | unknown |
| | an English poet. Carliell is remembered mainly for a verse defence of the new Church of England a... |
| Edmond Graile | unknown | 1610 | | 1619 | unknown |
| | an English poet and physician. Graile was born at Gloucester about 1577. He matriculated at Magda... |
| Samuel Rid | unknown | 1610 | | 1619 | unknown |
| | the author of The Art of Jugling or Legerdemaine (1612), an apparent sequel to Martin Markall, B... |
| Joseph Swetnam | unknown | 1610 | | 1619 | 1621 |
| | a Renaissance pamphleteer and Jacobean fencing master. He is best known for his misogynistic auth... |
| Kyrillos III Loukaris | unknown | 1601 | | 1620 | unknown |
| | Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria for the Greek Orthodox Church (1601-1620). He co-authored many l... |
| Thomas Harriot | 1560 ca | 1580 | | 1621 | 1621, Jul 2 |
| | an English astronomer, mathematician, ethnographer, and translator. He is sometimes credited with... |
| William Strachey | 1572, Apr 4 | 1605 | | 1621 | 1621, Jun 21 |
| | an English writer whose works are among the primary sources for the early history of the English ... |
| Richard Argall | unknown | 1621 | | 1621 | unknown |
| | a poet, of whom little is known, and whose existence is disputed. His name appears on the title-p... |
| Pedro Paez | 1564 | 1589 | | 1622 | 1622, May 25 |
| | a Spanish Jesuit missionary in Ethiopia. Páez is considered by many experts on Ethiopia to be th... |
| Ottavio Codogno | unknown | 1599 | | 1623 | unknown |
| | the deputy postmaster general of the Duchy of Milan and author of an extensive guidebook to the p... |
| John Brinsley the Elder | unknown | 1581 | | 1624 | unknown |
| | an English schoolmaster, known for his educational works. His best-known work is Ludus Literarius... |
| George Chapman | 1559 ca | 1596 | | 1624 | 1634, May 12 |
| | an English dramatist, translator, and poet. He was a classical scholar whose work shows the influ... |
| Ericus Erici Sorolainen | 1546 | 1583 | | 1625 | 1625 |
| | a Finnish Lutheran bishop, a Bishop of Turku from 1583 to 1625 as the successor to Paulus Juuste... |
| King James I | 1566, Jun 19 | 1603 | | 1625 | 1625, Mar 27 |
| | King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland (and Supreme Head... |
| John Fletcher [1] | 1579, Dec | 1606 | | 1625 | 1625, Aug |
| | a Jacobean playwright. Following William Shakespeare as house playwright for the King's Men, he w... |
| Willem Schouten | 1567 ca | 1615 | | 1625 | 1625 |
| | a Dutch navigator for the Dutch East India Company. He was the first to sail the Cape Horn route ... |
| Francis Bacon | 1561, Jan 22 | 1579 | | 1626 | 1626, Apr 9 |
| | an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, essayist and author. He served both... |
| Robert Naunton | 1563 | 1606 | | 1626 | 1635, Mar 27 |
| | an English writer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1606 an... |
| Thomas Smith [1] | unknown | 1600 | | 1627 | unknown |
| | an English soldier. Smith as he styles himself on the title-page of the first edition (4to, 1600)... |
| John Preston | 1587, Oct | 1611 | | 1627 | 1628, Jul 20 |
| | an Anglican cleric and master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. About 1611, the year in which he co... |
| Samuel Rowlands | 1573 ca | 1598 | | 1628 | 1630 |
| | an English author of pamphlets in prose and verse, which reflect the follies and humours of lower... |
| Johannes Buxtorf | 1564, Dec 25 | 1589 | | 1629 | 1629, Sep 13 |
| | a celebrated Hebraist, member of a family of Orientalists; professor of Hebrew for thirty-nine ye... |
| Oliver Almond | unknown | 1590 | | 1629 | unknown |
| | a Roman Catholic priest and writer, born in the diocese of Oxford. He is believed by Foley to hav... |
| Thomas Beard | unknown | 1590 | | 1629 | 1632 |
| | an English clergyman and theologian, of Puritan views. He is known as the author of The Theatre o... |
| Nicolas de Cardona | unknown | 1610 | | 1629 | unknown |
| | a Spanish entrepreneur and adventurer with residence in Seville, who was involved in the explorat... |
| John Ashmore | unknown | 1620 | | 1629 | unknown |
| | the first who attempted a translation into English of selected odes of Horace. In 1621 he publis... |
| Alonso Fernandez de Avellaneda | unknown | 1620 | | 1629 | unknown |
| | the pseudonym of a man who wrote a sequel to Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote. The identity of Fe... |
| Diego Beltran Hidalgo | unknown | 1620 | | 1629 | unknown |
| | a seventeenth century Spanish Marrano poet. The son of a Jew from Murcia, he was noted as an edi... |
| Patrick Scot | unknown | 1620 | | 1629 | unknown |
| | a Scottish official, tutor and author. He followed James VI of Scotland to England on his accessi... |
| Johannes Kepler | 1571, Dec 27 | 1594 | | 1630 | 1630, Nov 15 |
| | a German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer. A key figure in the 17th century scientific r... |
| Edmund Howes | unknown | 1607 | | 1631 | unknown |
| | an English chronicler. Howes lived in London, and designated himself "gentleman". Undeterred by J... |
| Randle Cotgrave | unknown | 1590 | | 1632 | 1634 |
| | an English lexicographer who in 1611 compiled and published A Dictionarie of the French and En... |
| Henry Wotton | 1568, Mar 30 | 1588 | | 1633 | 1639, Dec |
| | an English author, diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1614 and 1625. Of 2... |
| John Harrison [1] | unknown | 1610 | | 1633 | unknown |
| | an English representative in Morocco in the 17th century. James I of England sent John Harrison t... |
| George Abbot | 1562, Oct 19 | 1611 | | 1633 | 1633, Aug 5 |
| | an English divine who was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1611 to 1633 for the Church of England. H... |
| Felix Lope de Vega | 1562, Nov 25 | 1594 | | 1634 | 1635, Aug 27 |
| | a Spanish playwright, poet and novelist. He was one of the key figures in the Spanish Golden Cent... |
| John Marston | 1576, Oct 7 | 1598 | | 1634 | 1634, Jun 25 |
| | an English poet, playwright and satirist during the late Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. His ca... |
| Geoffrey Keating | 1569 ca | 1603 | | 1634 | 1644 ca |
| | a 17th-century historian. He was born in County Tipperary, Ireland, and is buried in Tubrid Grave... |
| Patrick Anderson | unknown | 1618 | | 1635 | unknown |
| | a physician and author. Anderson was the author of ‘The Colde Spring of Kinghorne Craig’ (161... |
| Peregrine O Duibhgeannain | unknown | 1627 | | 1636 | unknown |
| | an Irish historian and chronicler. Nothing is known of his life and activities until he began wor... |
| William Alabaster | 1567, Feb 27 | 1592 | | 1637 | 1640, Apr 28 |
| | an English poet, playwright, and religious writer. He became a Roman Catholic convert in Spain wh... |
| Ben Jonson | 1572, Jun 11 | 1598 | | 1637 | 1637, Aug 6 |
| | an English playwright, poet, actor and literary critic of the 17th century, whose artistry exerte... |
| Robert Fludd | 1574, Jan 17 | 1605 | | 1637 | 1637, Sep 8 |
| | a prominent English Paracelsian physician with both scientific and occult interests. He is rememb... |
| Galileo Galilei | 1564, Feb 15 | 1581 | | 1638 | 1642, Jan 8 |
| | an Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician who played a major rol... |
| Johann Heinrich Alsted | 1588, Mar | 1608 | | 1638 | 1638, Nov 9 |
| | a German Calvinist minister and academic, known for his varied interests: in Ramism and Lullism, ... |
 | Xu Xiake | 1587, Jan 5 | 1607 | | 1640 | 1641, Mar 8 |
| | a Chinese travel writer and geographer of the Ming Dynasty, known best for his famous geographica... |
| Richard Bernard | 1568 | 1598 | | 1641 | 1641 |
| | an English Puritan clergyman and writer. Barnard was a Calvinist Puritan, but a moderate one. Ber... |
| James Shirley | 1596, Sep | 1625 | | 1642 | 1666, Oct |
| | an English dramatist. He belonged to the great period of English dramatic literature, but, in Lam... |
| Charles de Valois | 1573, Apr 28 | 1589 | | 1643 | 1650, Sep 24 |
| | a French royal bastard, count of Auvergne, duke of Angoulême, and memoirist. Charles de Valois w... |
| Joseph Hall | 1574, Jul 1 | 1597 | | 1643 | 1656, Sep 8 |
| | an English bishop, satirist and moralist. His contemporaries knew him as a devotional writer, and... |
| Francisco Pacheco | 1571 | 1611 | | 1644 | 1654 |
| | a Spanish painter, best known as the teacher and father-in-law of Diego Velázquez and Alonzo Can... |
| Hugo Grotius | 1583, Apr 10 | 1599 | | 1645 | 1645, Aug 28 |
| | a Dutch jurist. Along with the earlier works of Francisco de Vitoria and Alberico Gentili, Grotiu... |
| John Abbot | 1587/88 | 1623 | | 1647 | 1650 ca |
| | an English Roman Catholic clergyman and poet. His birthplace is uncertain, but may have been Lond... |
| Thomas Edwards [2] | 1599 ca | 1625 | | 1647 | 1647 |
| | an English Puritan clergyman. He was a very influential preacher in London of the 1640s, and also... |
| Anthony Knivet | unknown | 1591 | | 1649 | unknown |
| | an English sailor who fell into Portuguese hands in Brazil, lived for a while with a native Brazi... |
| Fearfeasa O Maol Chonaire | unknown | 1620 | | 1649 | unknown |
| | co-compiler and scribe of the Annals of the Four Masters. As a young man, he participated in the ... |
| Rene Descartes | 1596, Mar 31 | 1619 | | 1650 | 1650, Feb 11 |
| | a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. Dubbed the father of modern western philosoph... |
| Niccolo Cabeo | 1586, Feb 26 | 1620 | | 1650 | 1650, Jun 30 |
| | an Italian Jesuit philosopher, theologian, engineer and mathematician. He is noted for his contri... |
| John Selden | 1584, Dec 16 | 1612 | | 1652 | 1654, Nov 30 |
| | an English jurist and a scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution and scholar of Jewish ... |
| Pierre Gassendi | 1592, Jan 22 | 1617 | | 1653 | 1655, Oct 24 |
| | a French philosopher, priest, scientist, astronomer, and mathematician. While he held a church po... |
 | Theodore Tronchin | 1582, Apr 17 | 1608 | | 1655 | 1657, Nov 19 |
| | a Swiss Calvinist theologian, controversialist and Hebraist. He studied theology at Geneva, Basel... |
| Edward Fisher | unknown | 1627 | | 1655 | unknown |
| | an English theological writer. He is generally considered the author of The Marrow of Modern Divi... |
| Margherita Costa | 1600 ca | 1628 | | 1657 | 1657 |
| | a singer, poet, playwright and feminist, is the most Baroque of the seventeenth-century Italian w... |
| Henry Cockeram | unknown | 1623 | | 1658 | unknown |
| | an English lexicographer. In 1623, he authored the third known English Language dictionary, and t... |
| Anthony Jenkinson | 1529 | 1550 | | 166 | 1610/1611 |
| | one of the first Britons to explore Muscovy and present day Russia. Jenkinson was a traveller and... |
| Saul Levi Morteira | 1596 ca | 1616 | | 1660 | 1660, Feb 10 |
| | a Dutch rabbi of Portuguese descent. Morteira was the founder of the congregational school Keter ... |
| Robert Abbot [1] | 1588 ca | 1610 | | 1662 | 1662 ca |
| | an English theologian who promoted puritan doctrines. He is sometimes mistakenly described as the... |
| Cu Choigcriche O Cleirigh | unknown | 1624 | | 1664 | unknown |
| | an Irish historian and genealogist, known in English as Peregrine O'Clery. Along with Brother Mí... |
| Mildmay Fane | 1602, Jan 24 | 1621 | | 1666 | 1666, Feb 12 |
| | an English nobleman, politician, and writer. One hundred and thirty seven poems by Fane appeared ... |
| William Day | 1605 ca | 1624 | | 1666 | 1684 |
| | an English cleric and biblical commentator. He received his education at Eton College. He was ele... |
| Jean Ogier de Gombauld | 1576 | 1624 | | 1666 | 1666 |
| | a French playwright and poet. Gombauld was born in Saint-Just-Luzac, Charente-Maritime and was a ... |
| John Trapp | 1601, Jun 5 | 1622 | | 1669 | 1669, Oct 16 |
| | an English Anglican Bible commentator. His large five-volume commentary is still read today and i... |
| William Prynne | 1600 | 1627 | | 1669 | 1669, Oct 24 |
| | an English lawyer, author, polemicist, and political figure. He was a prominent Puritan opponent ... |
| John Webb | 1611 | 1628 | | 1669 | 1672, Oct 24 |
| | an English architect and scholar. In 1654 Webb designed the first classical portico on an English... |
| Ingen Ryuki | 1592, Dec 7 | 1620 | | 1673 | 1673, May 19 |
| | a Chinese Linji Chán Buddhist monk, poet, and calligrapher. He is most known for founding the Ob... |
| Robert Herrick | 1591, Aug | 1623 | | 1674 | 1674, Oct |
| | a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is best known for Hesperides, a book of poems. T... |
| John Milton | 1608, Dec 9 | 1623 | | 1674 | 1674, Nov 8 |
| | an English poet, polemicist, and man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of Engl... |
| Thomas Hobbes | 1588, Apr 5 | 1608 | | 1675 | 1679, Dec 4 |
| | an English philosopher, best known today for his work on political philosophy. His 1651 book L... |
| Roger Williams | 1603, Dec 21 ca | 1628 | | 1676 | 1683, Jan-Mar |
| | a Puritan, an English Reformed theologian, and later a Reformed Baptist who was expelled by the P... |
| Gian Lorenzo Bernini | 1598, Dec 7 | 1609 | | 1678 | 1680, Nov 28 |
| | an Italian artist and a prominent architect who worked principally in Rome. He was the leading sc... |
| George Hartgill | unknown | 1590 | | 168 | unknown |
| | an English astronomer. Hartgill was in considerable repute during Elizabeth I's reign, from his k... |
| Denzil Holles | 1599, Oct 31 | 1624 | | 1680 | 1680, Feb 17 |
| | an English statesman and writer, best known as one of the Five Members whose attempted unconstitu... |
| Edmund Waller | 1606, Mar 3 | 1624 | | 1686 | 1687, Oct 21 |
| | an English poet and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1624 and ... |
