Wanli Emperor
Emperor of China from 1572 to 1620
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Fifth Sikh guru from 1581 to 1606
Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury
English government minister
Jodocus Hondius
Flemish and Dutch engraver and cartographer
Henry II of Lorraine
Duke of Lorraine and Bar from 1608 to 1624
Francis Caracciolo
Italian Catholic saint
Franciscus Gomarus
Dutch Calvinist theologian
Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester
English noble and diplomat
George Heriot
16th and 17th-century Scottish goldsmith and philanthropist
John Coke
English civil servant