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an English poet and dramatist of the Elizabethan era. He is known for his play The Commodye of Pacient and Meeke Grissill (aka The Plaie of Pacient Grisell), said to have been written in the late 1550s, and possibly first performed by a children's company at Nonsuch Palace in Surrey for Queen Elizabeth I as part of a special entertainment in August 1559.
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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 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... 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... 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... 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... Morus Dwyfech unknown 1520 1590 unknown a Welsh-language poet. There is very little information available concerning the details of his l... 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... 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... 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... 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... George Silver unknown 1550 1629 unknown a gentleman of England during the late 16th and early 17th centuries, who is known for his writin... Anthony Jenkinson 1529 1550 166 1610/1611 one of the first Britons to explore Muscovy and present day Russia. Jenkinson was a traveller and...
