Editing 1544 (section)

== Births ==
[[File:Dorothea Susanna von Sachsen-Weimar@20150927a.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Dorothea Susanne of Simmern]]]]
[[File:Avsachsen.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Anna of Saxony]]]]
* [[January 19]] &ndash; King [[Francis II of France]] (d. [[1560]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Hans Joachim Hillerbrand|title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xikOAQAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-510363-2|page=133}}</ref>
* [[January 24]] &ndash; [[Gillis van Coninxloo]], Flemish painter (d. [[1607]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Dietsche warande en Belfort |date=1913 |publisher=Den Gulden Engel |page=25 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EozNAAAAMAAJ&dq=Gillis+van+Coninxloo+%2224+januari+1544%22&pg=RA2-PA25 |access-date=24 September 2023 |language=nl}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Gillis van Coninxloo (II) |url=https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/record?query=Gillis+van+Coninxloo&start=1 |website=rkd.nl |access-date=24 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[February 3]] &ndash; [[César de Bus]], French Catholic priest (d. [[1607]])<ref>{{cite book |title=The Catholic Encyclopedia |date=1913 |publisher=Catholic Encyclopedia Incorporated |page=86 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iE4sAAAAIAAJ&dq=C%C3%A9sar+de+Bus+%223+february+1544%22&pg=PA86 |access-date=24 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 11]] &ndash; [[Torquato Tasso]], Italian poet (d. [[1595]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Johann Wolfgang von Goethe|title=Torquato Tasso|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WxMoAAAAYAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Angel Books|isbn=978-0-946162-19-2|page=6}}</ref>
* April &ndash; [[Thomas Fleming (judge)|Thomas Fleming]], English judge (d. [[1613]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Stephen |first1=Leslie |last2=Lee |first2=Sir Sidney |title=The Dictionary of National Biography |date=1908 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=286 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kiI8AAAAIAAJ&dq=Thomas+Fleming+%22april+1544%22&pg=PA286 |access-date=24 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[April 20]] &ndash; [[Renata of Lorraine]], duchess consort of Bavaria (d. [[1602]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Haeutle |first1=Christian |title=Genealogie des Erlauchten Stammhauses Wittelsbach: von dessen Wiedereinsetzung in das Herzogthum Bayern (11. Sept. 1180) bis herab auf unsere Tage |date=1870 |publisher=Manz |page=54 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CZ5bH6eCnHIC&dq=Renata+von+Lothringen+%2220+april+1544%22&pg=PA54 |access-date=24 September 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[May 24]] &ndash; [[William Gilbert (astronomer)|William Gilbert]], English scientist and astronomer (d. [[1603]])<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Smith |first1=Michael |title=William Gilbert (1544–1603): Physician and Founder of Electricity |journal=Journal of Medical Biography |date=1997 |volume=5 |issue=3 |pages=137–145 |doi=10.1177/096777209700500303 |pmid=11619454 |s2cid=31303087 |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/096777209700500303?journalCode=jmba |access-date=24 September 2023}}</ref>
* [[July 14]] &ndash; [[Henry Compton, 1st Baron Compton]], English politician (d. [[1589]])<ref>{{cite web |title=COMPTON, Henry I (1544-89) |url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/compton-henry-i-1544-89 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org |access-date=24 September 2023}}</ref>
* [[August 9]] &ndash; [[Bogislaw XIII, Duke of Pomerania]] (d. [[1606]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Baltische Studien |date=1937 |publisher=Gesellschaft für Pommersche Geschichte und Altertumskunde |page=232 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ykkSAAAAIAAJ&q=%229%20august%201544%22 |access-date=24 September 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[September 1]] &ndash; [[John Gordon (bishop, born 1544)|John Gordon]], Scottish bishop (d. [[1619]])<ref>{{cite ODNB |title=Gordon, John |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-11061|year=2004 |access-date=23 September 2023 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/11061}}</ref>
* [[September 28]] or [[September 29]] &ndash; [[Giovanni de' Medici (cardinal)|Giovanni de' Medici]], Italian Catholic cardinal (d. [[1562]])<ref>{{cite web |title=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of January 31, 1560 |url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1560.htm#Medici |website=cardinals.fiu.edu |access-date=24 September 2023}}</ref>
* [[November 1]] &ndash; [[Hasan Kafi Pruščak]], Bosnian scholar and judge (d. [[1615]])<ref>{{cite web |title=H A ŞA N K Â Fİ PRUŠČAK |url=https://pof.ois.unsa.ba/index.php/pof/article/download/243/pdf |access-date=24 September 2023}}</ref>
* [[November 15]] &ndash; [[Dorothea Susanne of Simmern]], Duchess of Saxe-Weimar (d. [[1592]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Back |first1=Friedrich |title=Die evangelische Kirche im Lande zwischen Rhein, Mosel, Nahe und Glan bis zum Beginn des 30jährigen Krieges: ¬Theil ¬II, ¬Die Reformation der Kirche sowie der Kirche Schicksale und Gestaltung bis zum Jahre 1620; Abth. 1 |date=1873 |publisher=Marcus |page=171 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uNJgAAAAcAAJ&dq=Dorothea+Susanne+%2215+november+1544%22&pg=PA171 |access-date=24 September 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[December 23]] &ndash; [[Anna of Saxony]], only child and heiress of Maurice, Elector of Saxony (d. [[1577]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bauer |first1=Max |title=Die deutsche Frau in der Vergangenheit |date=1907 |publisher=A. Schall |page=341 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bfsqAAAAMAAJ&dq=Anna+von+Sachsen+%2223+dezember+1544%22&pg=PA341 |access-date=24 September 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* ''date unknown''
** [[Richard Bancroft]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] (d. [[1610]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=White |first1=Francis Overend |title=Lives of the Elizabethan Bishops of the Anglican Church |date=1898 |publisher=Skeffington |page=375 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q1hCAAAAIAAJ&dq=Richard+Bancroft+%221544%22&pg=PA375 |access-date=24 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
** [[Thomas Hobson (postal carrier)|Thomas Hobson]], English carrier and origin of the phrase ''[[Hobson's choice]]'' (d. [[1631]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bushell |first1=W. D. |title=Hobson's Conduit: The New River at Cambridge Commonly Called Hobson's River |date=19 January 2012 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-04244-4 |page=55 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dOpvwkneet8C&dq=Thomas+Hobson+%221544%22&pg=PA55 |access-date=24 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
** [[Maddalena Casulana]], Italian composer, lutenist and singer (d. [[1590]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Parsons |first1=Laurel |last2=Ravenscroft |first2=Brenda |title=Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Secular & Sacred Music to 1900 |date=4 September 2018 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-023703-5 |page=47 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PCBrDwAAQBAJ&dq=Maddalena+Casulana+%221544%22&pg=PA47 |access-date=24 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* ''probable''
** [[George Whetstone]], English writer (d. [[1587]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Whetstone |first1=George |title=A critical edition of George Whetstone's 1582 An heptameron of civill discourses |date=1987 |publisher=Garland |location=New York |isbn=978-0-8240-8415-8 |page=ix |url=https://archive.org/details/criticaleditiono0000whet/page/n17/mode/2up?q=1544 |access-date=24 September 2023}}</ref>