Editing 1554 (section)

== Births ==
[[File:Portret van Philips Willem (1554-1618), prins van Oranje Rijksmuseum SK-A-256.jpeg|thumb|right|110px|[[Philip William, Prince of Orange]]]]
* [[January 1]] &ndash; [[Louis III, Duke of Württemberg]] (d. [[1593]])
* [[January 9]] &ndash; [[Pope Gregory XV]] (d. [[1623]])<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vWP_K-lZCB0C&pg=PA58 |title=Pocket Dictionary of Popes |first=Michael J. |last=Walsh |publisher=[[A&C Black]] |date=10 May 2006 |page=58 |isbn=9780860124207}}</ref>
* [[January 20]] &ndash; King [[Sebastian of Portugal]] (d. [[1578]])<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=39JMAgAAQBAJ&pg=RA4-PA312 |title=Dictionary of African Biography |volume=1-6 |first1=Emmanuel Kwaku |last1=Akyeampong |author-link=Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong |first2=Henry Louis |last2=Gates |author2-link=Henry Louis Gates |publisher=[[OUP]] USA |date=2 February 2012 |pages=312–313 |isbn=9780195382075}}</ref>
* [[February 8]] &ndash; [[Marina de Escobar]], Spanish nun (d. [[1633]])
* [[February 27]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Battista Paggi]], Italian painter (d. [[1627]])
* March &ndash; [[Richard Hooker]], Anglican theologian (d. [[1600]])
* [[March 1]] &ndash; [[William Stafford (conspirator)|William Stafford]], English courtier and conspirator (d. [[1612]])
* [[March 18]] &ndash; [[Josias I, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg]], Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg (1578-1588) (d. [[1588]])
* [[March 22]] &ndash; [[Catherine de Parthenay]], French noblewoman and mathematician (d. [[1631]])
* [[March 26]] &ndash; [[Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne]], French military leader (d. [[1611]])
* [[March 28]] &ndash; [[Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich of Russia]] (d. [[1581]])
* [[March 30]] &ndash; [[Paul Laurentius]], German divine (d. [[1624]])
* April &ndash; [[Stephen Gosson]], English satirist (d. [[1624]])
* [[April 15]] &ndash; [[Simon VI, Count of Lippe]], Count of Lippe-Detmold (1563-1613) (d. [[1613]])
* [[May 20]] &ndash; [[Paolo Bellasio]], Italian composer (d. [[1594]])
* [[June 3]] &ndash; [[Pietro de' Medici]], Italian noble (d. [[1604]])
* [[June 5]] &ndash; [[Benedetto Giustiniani]], Italian Catholic cardinal (d. [[1621]])
* [[June 21]] &ndash; [[Joachim of Zollern]], Titular Count of Hohenzollern (d. [[1587]])
* [[July 5]] &ndash; [[Elisabeth of Austria, Queen of France]] (d. [[1592]])
* [[October 1]] &ndash; [[Leonardus Lessius]], Jesuit theologian (d. [[1623]])
* [[October 3]] &ndash; [[Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke]], English poet (d. [[1628]])
* [[October 10]] &ndash; [[Arnold III, Count of Bentheim-Steinfurt-Tecklenburg-Limburg]] and Lord of Rheda (d. [[1606]])
* [[October 20]] &ndash; [[Bálint Balassi]], Hungarian writer and noble (d. [[1594]])
* [[October 28]] &ndash; [[Enevold Kruse]], Danish noble (d. [[1621]])
* [[October 30]] &ndash; [[Prospero Farinacci]], Italian jurist (d. [[1618]])
* [[November 30]] &ndash; [[Philip Sidney|Sir Philip Sidney]], English courtier and poet (d. [[1586]])<ref>{{cite book|author=H. R. Woudhuysen |title=Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts, 1558-1640|date=23 May 1996|publisher=Clarendon Press |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sz-sdBEhAHcC&pg=PA207 |pages=207 |isbn=978-0-19-159102-0}}</ref>
* [[December 17]] &ndash; [[Ernest of Bavaria]], Roman Catholic bishop (d. [[1612]])
* [[December 19]] &ndash; [[Philip William, Prince of Orange]] (d. [[1618]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Jacques Bongars]], French scholar and diplomat (d. [[1612]])
** [[James Lancaster]], English navigator (d. [[1618]])
** [[Walter Raleigh]], English writer, poet, and explorer (d. [[1618]])
** [[Francis Throckmorton]], English conspirator (d. [[1584]])