Births 1570

guy fawkes



hans lippershey



january 1

dorothea of brunswick-lüneburg, spouse of charles i, count palatine of zweibrücken-birkenfeld (d. 1649)
john dackombe, chancellor of duchy of lancaster (d. 1618)


january 19 – wolfgang hirschbach, german legal scholar (d. 1620)
january 22 – robert bruce cotton, english politician (d. 1631)
february – henry balnaves, scottish politician , religious reformer (b. 1512)
march 25 – henry lennard, 12th baron dacre, english baron , politician (d. 1616)
april 13 – guy fawkes, english conspirator (d. 1606)
may 8 – tamás esterházy, hungarian writer (d. 1616)
may 22 – johann ii, duke of saxe-weimar, german duke (d. 1605)
june 7 – sultan murad mirza, mughal prince (d. 1599)
june 13 – paul peuerl, german organist (d. 1625)
august 10 – philip, duke of holstein-gottorp (1587–1590) (d. 1590)
august 21 – christopher, duke of brunswick-harburg, co-ruler of brunswick-lüneburg-harburg (1603–1606) (d. 1606)
august 22 – franz von dietrichstein, german catholic bishop (d. 1636)
august 31 – gustav of saxe-lauenburg, german noble (d. 1597)
september 28 – sir richard hoghton, 1st baronet, english politician (d. 1630)
october 3 – george coke, british bishop (d. 1646)
october 4 – péter pázmány, hungarian cardinal , statesman (d. 1637)
october 7

volkert overlander, dutch mayor (d. 1630)
jean richardot younger, belgian politician (d. 1614)


november 1 – phineas pett, english shipwright , member of pett dynasty (d. 1647)
november 15 – francesco curradi, italian painter (d. 1661)
november 20 – giovanni battista agucchi, italian churchman, papal diplomat, , writer on art theory (d. 1632)
november 26 – christian, duke of schleswig-holstein-sonderburg-Ærø (1622–1633) (d. 1633)
november 28 – james whitelocke, english judge (d. 1632)
december 7 – richard cecil, english politician (d. 1633)
december 29 – wilhelm lamormaini, luxembourgian theologian (d. 1648)
date unknown

diego aduarte, prior of manila (d. 1637)
robert aytoun, scottish poet (d. 1638)
ebba bielke, swedish baroness , conspirator (d. 1618)
john cooper, english composer , lutenist (d. 1626)
john farmer, english composer (d. c.1601)
simon grahame, scottish-born adventurer (d. 1614)
nakagawa hidenari, japanese daimyo (d. 1612)
hans lippershey, dutch lensmaker (d. 1619)
asprilio pacelli, italian baroque composer (d. 1623)
girolamo rainaldi, italian architect (d. 1655)
salamone rossi, italian violinist , composer (d. 1630)
john smyth, english baptist minister (d. 1612)
chief powhatan, algonquin chief (d. 1620)
claudia sessa, italian composer (d. 1617/19)
katharina henot, german general postmaster , alleged witch (d. 1627)
urszula meyerin, politically influential polish courtier (d. 1635)