people/1580s

English politician

English poet and dramatist (1585–1639)

King of Imereti in western Georgia

Archbishop of Canterbury from 1660 to 1663

French astronomer and astrologer (1583–1656)

Spanish sailor, soldier, adventurer and writer

Dutch East India Company skipper

Hungarian noble

Poet from Ragusa, in modern Croatia (1589–1638)

English nobleman and aristocrat

French statesman and clergyman (1585–1642)

Polish-Lithuanian historian

English politician

Polish Talmudist

English priest

Flemish Baroque painter (1580–1662)

English soldier, explorer and writer (1580–1631)

French Jesuit (1583–1651)

English courtier and politician (1580–1633)

English clergyman

Spanish noblewoman (1585–1607)

Sultan of Bijapur from 1558 to 1580

Manchu noble of the early Qing Dynasty

Irish Protestant clergyman and scholar

French historian (1584–1640)

Scottish earl

Italian painter (1585–1652)

English noblewoman

Dutch sea captain and ambassador

Italian priest, philosopher, and writer

Austrian archduchess

Japanese samurai lord

Flemish painter

Japanese samurai

French general

Italian Roman Catholic cardinal

English bishop

Gaelic Irish chief (1587–1608)

English noblewoman

Spanish Jesuit missionary and writer

Religious Sister of the Franciscan Third Order Regular and saint