Editing 1551 (section)

== Births ==
[[File:Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen 005.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Maria Anna of Bavaria (1551-1608)|Maria Anna of Bavaria]]]]
* [[January 5]] &ndash; [[Jean Chapeauville]], Belgian theologian and historian (d. [[1617]])
* [[January 14]] &ndash; [[Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak]], Grand vizier of the Mughal emperor [[Akbar]] (d. [[1602]])
* [[January 26]] &ndash; [[Robert Dormer, 1st Baron Dormer]], English politician (d. [[1616]])
* [[February 2]] &ndash; [[Nicolaus Reimers]], German astronomer (d. [[1600]])
* [[March 9]] &ndash; [[Alessandro Alberti]], Italian painter (d. [[1596]])
* [[March 21]] &ndash; [[Maria Anna of Bavaria (1551-1608)|Maria Anna of Bavaria]] (d. [[1608]])
* [[March 30]] &ndash; [[Salomon Schweigger]], German theologian (d. [[1622]])
* [[April 9]] &ndash; [[Peter Monau]], German physician (d. [[1588]])
* [[April 30]] &ndash; [[Jacopo da Empoli]], Italian painter (d. [[1640]])
* [[May 2]] &ndash; [[William Camden]], English historian (d. [[1623]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Charles W. J. Withers|author2=Hayden Lorimer|title=Geographers Volume 27: Biobibliographical Studies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VRhHAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA28|date=October 27, 2011|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-1-4411-8011-7|pages=28}}</ref>
* [[May 8]] &ndash; [[Thomas Drury (1551–1603)|Thomas Drury]], English government informer and swindler (d. [[1603]])
* [[May 17]] &ndash; [[Martin Delrio]], Flemish theologian and occultist (d. [[1608]])
* [[September 19]] &ndash; King [[Henry III of France]] (d. [[1589]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Jayne Maloof Williamson|title=The War of the Three Henries: Why?: The Motives Prompting Henri de Navarre, Henry de Guise, and Henri III to Engage in War, 1585-1589|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qGdmAAAAMAAJ|year=1968|publisher=University of Wisconsin--Madison|page=96}}</ref>
* [[October 4]] &ndash; [[Philip VI, Count of Waldeck]] (1567–1579) (d. [[1579]])
* [[October 8]] &ndash; [[Giulio Caccini]], Italian composer (d. [[1618]])
* [[October 26]] &ndash; [[Charlotte de Sauve]], French courtesan (d. [[1617]])
* [[November 11]] &ndash; [[Giovanni I Cornaro]], Doge of Venice (d. [[1629]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Bhai Gurdas]] &ndash; original scribe of [[Guru Granth Sahib]]
** [[George Tuchet, 1st Earl of Castlehaven]] (d. [[1617]])
** [[Fausto Veranzio]], Dalmatian/Croatian polymath, bishop, humanist (d. [[1617]])
** [[Job of Pochayiv]], Ukrainian Christian Orthodox Saint (d. [[1651]])
* ''probable''
** [[Patrick Galloway]], Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland (d. c.[[1626]])
** [[Boris Godunov]], Tsar of Russia (d. [[1605]])
** [[Stanisław Stadnicki]], Polish nobleman (d. [[1610]])