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===Pre–1600===
*[[1447]] &ndash; [[Lodovico Lazzarelli]], Italian poet (d. 1500)<ref>{{cite book|author=Ludovico Lazzarelli|title=Lodovico Lazzarelli (1447–1500): The Hermetic Writings and Related Documents|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iqx9AAAAMAAJ|date=1 January 2005|publisher=Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies|isbn=978-0-86698-324-2|page=309}}</ref>
*[[1495]] &ndash; [[Francesco II Sforza]], Duke of Milan (d. 1535)<ref>{{cite book|author=Julia Mary Cartwright Ady|title=Christina of Denmark, Duchess of Milan and Lorraine, 1522–1590|url=https://archive.org/details/christinaofdenma01adyj|year=1913|publisher=J. Murray|page=[https://archive.org/details/christinaofdenma01adyj/page/72 72]}}</ref>
*  1495   &ndash; [[Jean Parisot de Valette]], Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller (d. 1568)
*[[1505]] &ndash; [[Mikołaj Rej]], Polish poet and author (d. 1580)<ref>{{cite book|author=Columbia University. Klub Polski|title=The Wayside Willow: Prose and Verse|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0wEjAAAAMAAJ|year=1945|publisher=White Eagle Publishing Company|page=41}}</ref>
*[[1575]] &ndash; [[Pierre de Bérulle]], French cardinal and theologian, founded the [[French school of spirituality]] (d. 1629)