Births
- 1503 - Thomas Wyatt
- 1508 - Primož Trubar, author of the first printed books in the Slovene language (died 1586)
- 1510 - Martynas Mažvydas
- 1511 - Johannes Secundus (died 1535)
- 1514 - Daniele Barbaro (died 1570)
- 1515 - Roger Ascham
- 1517 - Henry Howard
- 1524 - Luís de Camões (died 1580)
- 1547 - Miguel de Cervantes (died 1616)
- 1551 - William Camden
- 1554 - Philip Sidney
- 1555 - Lancelot Andrewes
- 1558 - Robert Greene
- 1558 - Thomas Kyd
- 1561 - Luís de Góngora y Argote, Spanish poet (died 1627)
- 1562 - Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and dramatist (died 1635)
- 1564 - Henry Chettle, English dramatist (died 1607)
- 1564 - Christopher Marlowe, English poet and dramatist (died 1593)
- 1564 - William Shakespeare, English poet and dramatist (died 1616)
- 1570 - Robert Aytoun
- 1572 - Ben Jonson, John Donne
- 1576 - John Marston
- 1577 - Robert Burton
- 1581 - Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft
- 1583 - Philip Massinger
- 1587 - Joost van den Vondel
- 1594 - James Howell
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