Editing 1552 (section)

== Births ==
[[File:Sir Walter Ralegh by 'H' monogrammist.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Walter Raleigh]]]]
[[File:Rudolf2c.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Rudolph II]]]]
[[File:Vasili IV of Russia.PNG|thumb|110px|[[Vasili IV of Russia]]]]
[[File:Ricciportrait.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Matteo Ricci]]]]
[[File:SimondeRojasOSS.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Simón de Rojas]]]]
* [[January 14]] &ndash; [[Alberico Gentili]], Italian jurist (d. [[1608]])
* [[January 22]] &ndash; [[Walter Raleigh]], English explorer (d. [[1618]])<ref>{{cite ODNB|id=23039|title=Ralegh, Sir Walter (1554–1618)|last=Nicholls|first=Mark|last2=Williams|first2= Penry |date=17 September 2004}}</ref>
* [[February 1]] &ndash; [[Edward Coke]], English colonial entrepreneur and jurist (d. [[1634]])
* [[February 8]] &ndash; [[Agrippa d'Aubigné]], French poet and soldier (d. [[1630]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=St James Press|author2=Anthony Levi|author3=Retired Professor of French Anthony Levi|title=Guide to French Literature: Beginnings to 1789|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oqkRAQAAMAAJ|year=1992|publisher=St. James Press|isbn=978-1-55862-159-6|page=6}}</ref>
* [[February 19]] &ndash; [[Melchior Klesl]], Austrian statesman and cardinal (d. [[1630]])
* [[February 20]] &ndash; [[Sengoku Hidehisa]], Japanese daimyō (d. [[1614]])
* [[February 25]] &ndash; [[Magdalene of Lippe]], Countess of Lippe by birth, and by marriage Landgravine of Hesse-Darmstadt (d. [[1587]])
* [[February 28]] &ndash; [[Joost Bürgi]], Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (d. [[1632]])
* [[March 1]] &ndash; [[Anna of Cleves (1552–1632)|Anna of Cleves]], Duchess of Jülich-Cleves-Berg by birth and by marriage Countess Palatine of Neuburg (d. [[1632]])
* [[March 18]] &ndash; [[Polykarp Leyser the Elder]], German theologian (d. [[1610]])
* [[March 20]] &ndash; [[Christoph, Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch]] (d. [[1592]])
* [[April 20]] &ndash; [[Frederick IV of Liegnitz]], German noble (d. [[1596]])
* [[May 8]] &ndash; [[Petrus Ryff]], Swiss scientist (d. [[1629]])
* [[May 12]] &ndash; [[Edmund Bowyer (died 1627)|Edmund Bowyer]], English politician (d. [[1627]])
* [[June 2]] &ndash; [[Raja Wodeyar I]], King of Mysore (d. [[1617]])
* [[June 8]] &ndash; [[Gabriello Chiabrera]], Italian poet (d. [[1638]])
* [[June 17]] &ndash; [[John George of Ohlau]], Duke of Oława and Wołów (1586-1592) (d. [[1592]])
* [[June 29]] &ndash; [[Elizabeth Spencer, Baroness Hunsdon]], English baroness (d. [[1618]])
* [[July 18]] &ndash; [[Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor]] (d. [[1612]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Rudolf II {{!}} Holy Roman emperor |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rudolf-II-Holy-Roman-emperor |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=13 April 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[July 22]]
** [[Anthony Browne (1552–1592)|Anthony Browne]], Sheriff of Surrey and Kent (d. [[1592]])
** [[Mary Wriothesley, Countess of Southampton]], Lady of English peer and others (d. [[1607]])
* [[August 14]] &ndash; [[Paolo Sarpi]], Italian writer (d. [[1623]])
* [[August 21]] &ndash; [[Muhammad Qadiri]], Founder of the Naushahia branch of the Qadri order (d. [[1654]])
* [[August 24]] &ndash; [[Lavinia Fontana]], Italian painter (d. [[1614]])
* [[September 12]] &ndash; [[Andreas Schott]], Flemish academic, linguist, translator, editor and a [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] priest (d. [[1629]])
* [[September 20]] &ndash; [[Lorenz Scholz von Rosenau]], German botanist (d. [[1599]])
* [[September 21]] &ndash; [[Barbara Longhi]], Italian painter (d. [[1638]])
* [[September 22]] &ndash; Tsar [[Vasili IV of Russia]] (d. [[1612]])
* [[September 27]] &ndash; [[Flaminio Scala]], Italian playwright and stage actor (d. [[1624]])
* [[October 6]] &ndash; [[Matteo Ricci]], Italian Jesuit missionary to China (d. [[1610]])
* [[October 11]] &ndash; [[Tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich of Russia (1552–1553)|Tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich of Russia]], Grand Prince of Moscow (d. [[1553]])
* [[October 18]] 
**[[Elisabeth of Saxony]], Countess Palatine of Simmern (d. [[1590]])
**[[Francis Cherry (diplomat)|Francis Cherry]], English diplomat (d. [[1605]])
* [[October 23]] &ndash; [[Odet de Turnèbe]], French dramatist (d. [[1581]])
* [[October 28]] &ndash; [[Simón de Rojas]], Spanish saint (d. [[1624]])
* [[December 18]] &ndash; [[Ahmad Ibn al-Qadi]], Moroccan writer, judge and mathematician (d. [[1616]])
* [[November 20]] &ndash; [[Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury]], English politician and Earl (d. [[1616]])
* [[November 26]] &ndash; [[Seonjo of Joseon]], King of Joseon (d. [[1608]])
* [[December 27]] &ndash; [[William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire]], English politician and Earl (d. [[1626]])
* [[December 29]] &ndash; [[Henri I de Bourbon, prince de Condé]] (d. [[1588]])
* [[December 31]] &ndash; [[Simon Forman]], English occultist and astrologer (d. [[1611]])
* ''Date unknown:''
** [[Hans von Aachen]], German mannerist painter (d. [[1615]])
** [[Thomas Aufield]], English Catholic martyr (d. [[1585]])
** [[Jean Bertaut]], French poet (d. [[1611]])<ref>{{cite web |last1=Campbell |first1=Gordon |title=Bertaut, Jean |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198601753.001.0001/acref-9780198601753-e-424 |website=The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=8 June 2022 |language=en |doi=10.1093/acref/9780198601753.001.0001 |date=1 January 2005|isbn=978-0-19-860175-3 }}</ref>
** [[Philemon Holland]], English translator (d. [[1637]])
** [[Prince Masahito]], Japanese prince (d. [[1586]])
** [[Lady Saigō]], Japanese concubine (d. [[1589]])
** [[Dom Justo Takayama]], Japanese daimyo (d. [[1615]])
** [[Anthony Tyrrell]], Roman Catholic renegade priest and spy (d. circa [[1610]])
** [[Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul]], French diplomat (d. [[1636]])
** [[Cvijeta Zuzorić]], Croatian poet (d. [[1648]])
* ''probable''
** [[Miguel de Benavides]], Spanish clergyman and sinologist (d. [[1605]])
** [[Francisco Goméz de Sandoval y Rojas, Duke of Lerma]], Spanish politician (d. [[1625]])