Births 1560

maximilien de bethune, duke of sully



january 1 – hugh myddelton, welsh businessman (d. 1631)
january 3 – john bois, english scholar (d. 1643)
january 17 – gaspard bauhin, swiss botanist (d. 1624)
january 29 – scipione dentice, neapolitan keyboard composer (d. 1633)
march 13 – william louis, count of nassau-dillenburg, dutch count (d. 1620)
march 29 – erekle i, prince of mukhrani, georgian noble (d. 1605)
april 19 – count jobst of limburg (d. 1621)
may 6 – guido pepoli, italian catholic cardinal (d. 1599)
june 25 – wilhelm fabry, german surgeon (d. 1634)
june 28 – giovanni paolo lascaris, italian grand master of knights hospitaller (d. 1657)
july 1 – charles iii de croÿ, belgian noble (d. 1612)
july 7 – margaret clifford, countess of cumberland, english noblewoman , maid of honor elizabeth (d. 1616)
august 6 – antoine arnauld, french lawyer (d. 1619)
august 7 – elizabeth báthory, hungarian serial killer (d. 1614)
august 10 – hieronymus praetorius, german composer (d. 1629)
august 19 – james crichton, scottish polymath (d. 1582)
august 25 – park jin, korean naval commander (d. 1597)
september 4 – charles i, count palatine of zweibrücken-birkenfeld (d. 1600)
september 19 – thomas cavendish, english naval explorer, leader of third expedition circumnavigate globe (d. 1592)
october 10 – jacobus arminius, dutch theologian (d. 1609)
october 17 – ernest frederick, margrave of baden-durlach (d. 1604)
october 29 – christian i, elector of saxony (d. 1591)
november 3 – annibale carracci, italian painter (d. 1609)
november 22 – charles, margrave of burgau, german nobleman (d. 1618)
november 28 – baltasar marradas, count of spain (d. 1638)
december 3 – jan gruter, dutch critic , scholar (d. 1627)
december 13 – maximilien de béthune, duke of sully, 2nd prime minister of france (d. 1641)
december 28 – samuel sandys, english politician (d. 1623)
december 29 – wolfgang ernst of isenburg-büdingen-birstein, german count (d. 1633)
date unknown

felice anerio, italian composer (died 1614)
amalia von hatzfeld, swedish countess governor (d. 1628)
charles butler, english beekeeper , philologist (d. 1647)
james crichton, scottish scholar (d. 1582)
lieven de key, dutch architect (d. 1627)
ishida mitsunari, japanese samurai (d. 1600)
ketevan martyr, georgian queen , saint (d. 1624)
anton praetorius, german pastor (d. 1613)


probable

jan karol chodkiewicz, polish military commander (d. 1621)
adam haslmayr, tyrolean commentator on rosicrucian manifestos (d. 1630)