16th Century in Wales - Births

Births

1504

• date unknown - William Glyn, bishop (died 1558)

1505

• date unknown - Rowland Meyrick, bishop (died 1566)

1511

• 1 January - Henry, Duke of Cornwall, son of King Henry VIII of England and Catherine of Aragon and prospective Prince of Wales (died 23 February of the same year)
• approximate date - Thomas Davies, Bishop of St Asaph (died 1573)

1512

• approximate date - Robert Recorde, mathematician (died 1558)

1515

• approximate date - Thomas Parry, Comptroller of the Household of Queen Elizabeth I of England (died 1560)

1527

• 13 July - John Dee, mathematician and occultist (died 1609)

1528

• 6 November - Gabriel Goodman, founder of Ruthin School (died 1601)
• 7–11 November - John Perrot, Lord Deputy of Ireland (died 1592)

1534

• date unknown - Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, statesman (died 1601)

1546

• date unknown - Thomas Morgan (of Llantarnam), conspirator (died 1606)

1558

• Richard Trevor, politician (died 1638)

1560

• date unknown - Hugh Myddelton, goldsmith and hydraulic engineer (died 1631)

1575

• 9 December - Augustine Baker, Benedictine mystic (died 1641)
• date unknown - William Vaughan, writer and colonial investor (died 1641)

1582

• 22 March - John Williams, Archbishop of York (died 1650)

1587

• 24 June - William Arnold, Welsh-descended American settler

1592

• date unknown - Sir Owen Wynn, 3rd Baronet (died 1660)