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English Jesuit martyr, executed in 1595

Russian boyar

Italian painter (1551–1640)

Scottish judge and politician (1555–1622)

European classical scholar and philologist (1559–1614)

16th-century French nobleman and military leader in the Wars of Religion

English soldier and politician

Spanish Jesuit (1554–1624)

Scottish mathematician (1550–1617)

English Roman Catholic priest

Academic and bishop (1502–1559)

Austrian nobleman (1553–1595)

Catholic marshal of the Thirty Years' War (1559–1632)

English noblewoman (1556–1632)

English academic and Bishop of Norwich

English politician (1553–1632)

English landowner in the 16th Century

English courtier and politician (1559–1636)

Karmapa of Kagyu Tibetan Buddhism (1556–1603)

French poet (1552–1630)

Duke of Prussia from 1568 to 1618

Cornish Protestant martyr

French physician

Scottish churchman

English clergyman (c.1550–1639)

English politician (1558–1601)

Spanish Discalced Carmelite

Spanish nobleman

Archbishop-Elector of Cologne

Spanish soldier, historian and lawyer (1559–1636)

Greek painter (1556–1629)

16th-century Hungarian poet, writer, soldier

Italian physician

English theologian

Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal

Swedish noble and landowner

16th-century Japanese visitor to Europe

Spanish Catholic mystic (1534–1580)

Jathedar of the Akal Takht from 1606 to 1637

Japanese daimyō (1558–1600)