Francis Bacon
English philosopher and statesman
20 notable people were born in 1561.
Luis de Góngora
Spanish Baroque lyric poet
Jacopo Peri
Italian composer and singer
Henry Briggs
British mathematician
Santorio Santorio
Italian physiologist
Mary Sidney
English poet, playwright and patron
Anthony Babington
English nobleman convicted of plotting the assassination of Elizabeth I of England
Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk
English sailor, politician, and courtier
Thomas Fincke
Danish mathematician and physicist
Maria of the Palatinate, Duchess of Södermanland
Duchess of Södermanland
Philippe van Lansberge
Flemish Minister, astronomer and Mathematician
Kikkawa Hiroie
Japanese daimyō
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- 1561–1615Adriaan van RoomenBelgian mathematicianSeptember 29
- 1561–1631Sophia Hedwig of Brunswick-WolfenbüttelDecember 1
- 1561–1623John VII of Nassau-SiegenGerman count and military theoristJune 7
- 1561–1634Hernando Arias de SaavedraSpanish colonial governorSeptember 10
- 1561–1616Anna of WürttembergDuchess of LegnicaJune 12
- 1561–1629Edwin SandysEnglish politicianDecember 9
- 1561–1615Gervase HelwysEnglish murdererSeptember 1
- 1561–1616Richard FieldEnglish ecclesiological theologianOctober 15