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unknown 1580s-1590s 1605 ca
a musician and poet from the north of England present at the Scottish court of King James VI at the end of the 16th century. Both he and his brother Robert Hudson were members of the Castalian Band, a group of court poets and musicians headed by the King in the 1580s and 1590s. In 1584 Thomas Hudson translated Judith by Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, an account of the biblical character written at the command of Jeanne III of Navarre.
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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 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... 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... Thomas Bell 1551 1573 1610 unknown an English Roman Catholic priest, and later an anti-Catholic writer. He was mentioned in 1592 as ... 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... 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 ... 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 ... 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 Harriot 1560 ca 1580 1621 1621, Jul 2 an English astronomer, mathematician, ethnographer, and translator. He is sometimes credited with... 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... 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... Francis Bacon 1561, Jan 22 1579 1626 1626, Apr 9 an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, essayist and author. He served both... Samuel Rowlands 1573 ca 1598 1628 1630 an English author of pamphlets in prose and verse, which reflect the follies and humours of lower... George Silver unknown 1550 1629 unknown a gentleman of England during the late 16th and early 17th centuries, who is known for his writin... 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... 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... 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... Felix Lope de Vega 1562, Nov 25 1594 1634 1635, Aug 27 a Spanish playwright, poet and novelist. 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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... Anthony Knivet unknown 1591 1649 unknown an English sailor who fell into Portuguese hands in Brazil, lived for a while with a native Brazi... Anthony Jenkinson 1529 1550 166 1610/1611 one of the first Britons to explore Muscovy and present day Russia. Jenkinson was a traveller and... George Hartgill unknown 1590 168 unknown an English astronomer. Hartgill was in considerable repute during Elizabeth I's reign, from his k...
