1561 in Poetry - Births

Births

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

• January 22 – Francis Bacon (died 1626), English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author and poet
• April 8 – Dominicus Baudius (died 1613), Dutch Neo-Latin poet, scholar and historian
• July 11 – Luis de Gongora (died 1627), Spanish lyric poet
• October 27 – Mary Herbert (died 1621), English poet, translator, patron, hostess of a literary salon, and sister of Philip Sidney
• Also:
  • Gaspar Aguilar (died 1623), Spanish poet and dramatist
  • Bernardo de Balbuena (died 1627), Latin American poet
  • Henry Lok birth year uncertain (died 1608), English
  • Nicolas de Montreux (died 1608), French nobleman, novelist, poet, translator and dramatist
  • Robert Southwell year of birth uncertain (died 1595), English Jesuit priest and poet