Editing 1545 (section)

== Births ==
[[File:Isabel de Valois2.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Elisabeth of Valois]]]]
[[File:Anna of the Veldenz Palatinate 1580 by unknown.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Anna Maria of Sweden]]]]
* [[January 1]] &ndash; [[Magnus Heinason]], Faroese naval hero (d. [[1589]])
* [[January 11]] &ndash; [[Guidobaldo del Monte]], Italian mathematician, astronomer and philosopher (d. [[1607]])
* March &ndash; [[Gaspare Tagliacozzi]], Italian surgeon and anatomist (d. [[1599]])
* [[March 2]] &ndash; [[Thomas Bodley]], English diplomat and scholar, founder of the Bodleian Library, Oxford (d. [[1613]])
* [[March 18]] &ndash; [[Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn]], German bishop (d. [[1617]])
* [[March 25]] &ndash; [[John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg]], Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sønderburg (d. [[1622]])
* [[April 1]] &ndash; [[Peder Claussøn Friis]], Norwegian clergyman and author (d. [[1614]])
* [[April 2]] &ndash; [[Elisabeth of Valois]], queen of [[Philip II of Spain]] (d. [[1568]])<ref>{{cite book|author=A. J. Krailsheimer|title=Three Sixteenth-century Conteurs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dZxcAAAAMAAJ|year=1966|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=184|language=en}}</ref>
* [[April 15]] &ndash; [[Karl II, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels]], Duke of Oels (1565–1617), Duke of Bernstadt (1604–1617) (d. [[1617]])
* [[April 24]] &ndash; [[Henry Wriothesley, 2nd Earl of Southampton]], English earl (d. [[1581]])
* [[April 28]] &ndash; [[Yi Sun-sin]], Korean naval commander (d. [[1598]])
* [[May 1]] &ndash; [[Franciscus Junius (the elder)|Franciscus Junius]], French theologian (d. [[1602]])
* [[May 22]] &ndash; [[Karl Christoph, Duke of Münsterberg]] (d. [[1569]])
* [[June 6]] &ndash; [[Jerome Gratian]], Spanish Carmelite and writer (d. [[1614]])
* [[June 13]] &ndash; [[Naitō Nobunari]], Japanese samurai and daimyō of Omi Province (d. [[1612]])
* [[June 19]] &ndash; [[Princess Anna Maria of Sweden]], Swedish royal (d. [[1610]])
* [[July 8]] &ndash; [[Carlos, Prince of Asturias|Don Carlos of Spain]], son of [[Philip II of Spain]] (d. [[1568]])
* [[August 1]] &ndash; [[Andrew Melville]], Scottish theologian and religious reformer (d. [[1622]])
* [[August 27]] &ndash; [[Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma]] (d. [[1592]])
* [[September 7]] &ndash; [[Eitel Friedrich IV, Count of Hohenzollern]], First Count of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (d. [[1605]])
* [[September 20]] &ndash; [[Yamanaka Yukimori]], Japanese samurai (d. [[1578]])
* [[October 15]] &ndash; [[Elisabeth of Anhalt-Zerbst (1545–1574)|Elisabeth of Anhalt-Zerbst]], Abbess of Gernrode and Frose, later Countess of Barby-Mühlingen (d. [[1574]])
* [[October 19]] &ndash; [[John Juvenal Ancina]], Italian oratorian and bishop (d. [[1604]])
* [[November 20]] &ndash; [[Ernst Ludwig, Duke of Pomerania]] (d. [[1592]])
* [[November 25]] &ndash; [[Ana de Jesús]], Spanish Discalced Carmelite nun and spiritual writer (d. [[1621]])
* [[December 6]] &ndash; [[Janus Dousa]], Dutch historian and noble (d. [[1604]])
* [[December 7]] &ndash; [[Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley]], consort of [[Mary, Queen of Scots]] (d. [[1567]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Caroline Bingham|title=Darnley: A Life of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Consort of Mary Queen of Scots|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AYNnAAAAMAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Constable|isbn=978-0-09-472530-0|page=38}}</ref>
* ''date unknown''
** [[George Bannatyne]], collector of Scottish poems (d. [[1608]])
** [[John Field (Puritan)|John Field]], British Puritan clergyman and controversialist (d. [[1588]])
** [[John Gerard]], English botanist (d. [[1612]])
** [[Ismihan Sultan]], Ottoman princess, daughter of Selim II and wife of Sokollu Mehmed Pasha (d. [[1585]])
** [[William Morgan (Bible translator)|William Morgan]], Welsh Bible translator (d. [[1604]])
** [[Azai Nagamasa]], Japanese nobleman (d. [[1573]])
** [[Mashita Nagamori]], Japanese warlord (d. [[1615]])
* ''probable'' &ndash; [[Nicholas Breton]], English poet and novelist (d. [[1626]])