Editing 1557 (section)

== Births ==
[[File:Iimatyas.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor]]]]
* [[January 1]] &ndash; [[Stephen Bocskay]], Prince of Transylvania (d. [[1606]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Nóra |first1=G. Etényi |last2=Szabó |first2=Péter |last3=Horn |first3=Ildikó |title=Koronás fejedelem: Bocskai István és kora |date=2006 |publisher=General Press |isbn=978-963-9648-27-2 |page=27 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BQgiAQAAIAAJ&q=Bocskai+Istv%C3%A1n+%221557.+janu%C3%A1r+1.%22 |access-date=17 October 2023 |language=hu}}</ref>
* [[February 11]] &ndash; [[Johannes Wtenbogaert]], Leader of the Remonstrants (d. [[1644]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Reitsma |first1=Johannes |title=Geschiedenis van de Hervorming en de Hervormde Kerk der Nederlanden |date=1899 |publisher=Wolters |page=157 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tWUNAAAAYAAJ&dq=Johannes+Wtenbogaert+%2211+februari+1557%22&pg=PA157 |access-date=17 October 2023 |language=nl}}</ref>
* [[February 15]] 
**[[Alfonso Fontanelli]], Italian composer (d. [[1622]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Galilei |first1=Galileo |title=Le opere di Galileo Galilei |date=1909 |publisher=Tip. di G. Barbèra |page=443 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lLlBAQAAMAAJ&dq=Alfonso+Fontanelli+%2215+febbraio+1557%22&pg=PA443 |access-date=17 October 2023 |language=it}}</ref>
**[[Vittoria Accoramboni]], Italian noblewoman (d. [[1585]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gnoli |first1=Domenico |title=Vittoria Accoramboni |date=1870 |publisher=Successori Le Monnier |page=18 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cmefH8WuaqcC&dq=Vittoria+Accoramboni+%2215+febbraio+1557%22&pg=PA18 |access-date=17 October 2023 |language=it}}</ref>
* [[February 24]] &ndash; [[Mathias, Holy Roman Emperor]] (d. [[1619]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Daniels |first1=Alexander von |title=Handbuch der deutschen Reichs und Staatenrechsgeschichte |date=1862 |publisher=Laupp & Siebeck |page=505 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HWFGAAAAYAAJ&dq=Matthias+kaiser+%2224+februar+1557%22&pg=PA505 |access-date=17 October 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[March 1]] &ndash; [[Anne Howard, Countess of Arundel]], English countess and poet (d. [[1630]])<ref>{{cite ODNB |title=Howard [Dacre], Anne, countess of Arundel|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-1007870|year=2004 |access-date=17 October 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 22]] &ndash; [[Casimir VI, Duke of Pomerania]] and Lutheran Administrator of Cammin Prince-Bishopric (d. [[1605]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=WUTSTRACK |first1=Christian Friedrich |title=Kurze historisch-geographisch-statische Beschreibung von dem königlichpreussischen Herzogthume Vor- und Hinter-Pommern, etc |date=1793 |publisher=Johann Samuel Leich |page=134 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6q7PvyAgEC4C&dq=Kasimir+VI+22+marz+1557&pg=PA134 |access-date=17 October 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[April 4]] &ndash; [[Lew Sapieha]], Polish-Lithuanian noble (d. [[1633]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Spórna |first1=Marcin |title=Słownik najsłynniejszych wodzów i dowódców polskich |date=2006 |publisher=Zielona Sowa |isbn=978-83-7435-094-5 |page=395 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F7TeAAAAMAAJ&q=%20%224%20kwietnia%201557%22 |access-date=17 October 2023 |language=pl}}</ref>
* [[April 11]] &ndash; [[Frederick, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Vohenstrauss-Parkstein]] (d. [[1597]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Beitelrock |first1=Johann Michael |title=Geschichte des Herzogthums Neuburg oder der jungen Pfalz |date=1863 |publisher=Wailandt |page=15 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LmRFAAAAcAAJ&dq=Friedrich+pfalz+%2211+april+1557%22&pg=PA15 |access-date=17 October 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[May 5]] &ndash; [[Emanuel Philibert de Lalaing]], Belgian noble and army commander (d. [[1590]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Mémoires couronnés et autres mémoires: Collection in-8°. ... |date=1882 |publisher=Hayez |page=156 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5VOUSJdtqXsC&dq=Emanuel+Filibert+van+Lalaing+%225+mei+1557%22&pg=RA2-PA156 |access-date=17 October 2023 |language=nl}}</ref>
* [[May 31]] &ndash; Tsar [[Feodor I of Russia]] (d. [[1598]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Морозова |first1=Л. Е. |title=Два царя: Федор и Борис |date=2001 |publisher=Русское слово |isbn=978-5-8253-0160-0 |page=15 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e8YiAQAAIAAJ&q=%D0%A4%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%80+I+%C2%AB31+%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%8F+1557+%D0%B3.%C2%BB |access-date=17 October 2023 |language=ru}}</ref>
* [[June 28]] &ndash; [[Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel]], English nobleman (d. [[1595]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jr |first1=James D. Taylor |title=Complete State Trials of the Tudor Era |date=1 May 2019 |publisher=Algora Publishing |isbn=978-1-62894-377-1 |page=397 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=br2XDwAAQBAJ&dq=Philip+Howard+%2228+june+1557%22&pg=PA397 |access-date=18 October 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[August 2]] &ndash; At [[Colchester]] in England, 10 convicted Protestant heretics are burned at the stake.<ref name=Foxe/>
* [[August 16]] &ndash; [[Agostino Carracci]], Italian painter and graphical artist (d. [[1602]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Il Seicento europeo: Realismo, classicismo, barocco |date=1968 |publisher=De Luca |page=87 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DmksAQAAIAAJ&q=%2216%20agosto%201557%22 |access-date=18 October 2023 |language=it}}</ref>
* [[August 19]] &ndash; [[Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg]] (d. [[1608]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Landtag |first1=Württemberg |title=Württemberg Landtagsakten |date=1910 |publisher=Kolhammer |page=1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=npAUAQAAIAAJ&dq=Friedrich+I+W%C3%BCrttemberg+%2219+august+1557%22&pg=PA1 |access-date=18 October 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[August 26]] &ndash; [[Sibylle of Jülich-Cleves-Berg]], Duchess of Jülich-Cleves-Berg by birth and by marriage Margravine of Burgau (d. [[1628]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kleinschmidt |first1=Arthur |title=Augsburg, Nürnberg und ihre Handelsfürsten im fünfzehnten und sechzehnten Jahrhunderte |date=1881 |publisher=Kay |page=170 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G3fLvM_nYawC&dq=Sibylle+von+J%C3%BClich+%2226+august+1557%22&pg=PA170 |access-date=18 October 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[September 4]] &ndash; [[Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow]], Danish-Norwegian royal consort (d. [[1631]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Stuth |first1=Steffen |title=Höfe und Residenzen: Untersuchungen zu den Höfen der Herzöge von Mecklenburg im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert |date=2001 |publisher=Edition Temmen |isbn=978-3-86108-778-6 |page=120 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PhBoAAAAMAAJ&q=Sophie+af+Mecklenburg+%224+september+1557%22 |access-date=18 October 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[September 11]] &ndash; [[Joseph Calasanz]], Spanish priest and founder of Piarists (d. [[1648]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Escolapios insignes por su piedad religiosa desde el origen  |date=1899 |publisher=San Francisco de Sales |page=11 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RFkzAQAAMAAJ&dq=Jos%C3%A9+Calasanz+%2211+de+septiembre+de+1557%22&pg=PA11 |access-date=18 October 2023 |language=es}}</ref>
* [[September 16]] &ndash; [[Jacques Mauduit]], French composer (d. [[1627]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung |date=1842 |publisher=Breitkopf und Härtel |page=74 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rwgVAAAAQAAJ&dq=Jacques+Mauduit+%2216+september+1557%22&pg=PA73 |access-date=18 October 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[October 5]] &ndash; [[Antoine Favre]], Savoisian lawyer, first President of the Sovereign Senate of Savoy (d. [[1624]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dufayard |first1=Charles |title=Histoire de Savoie |date=1914 |publisher=Boivin |page=186 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gji5V75DymcC&dq=Antoine+Favre+%225+octobre+1557%22&pg=PA186 |access-date=18 October 2023 |language=fr}}</ref>
* ''date unknown''
** [[Giovanni Croce]], Italian composer (d. [[1609]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Drennan |first1=Jonathan R. J. |title=Requiems by Giovanni Croce and Giovanni Rovetta: The Requiem Mass at St. Mark's, Venice, in the Seventeenth Century |date=September 2023 |publisher=A-R Editions, Inc. |isbn=978-1-9872-0865-8 |page=xi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Of7XEAAAQBAJ&dq=Giovanni+Croce+%221557%22+Chioggia&pg=PR11 |access-date=18 October 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
** [[Balthasar Gérard]], assassin of [[William I of Orange]] (d. [[1584]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Correspondance de Guillaume le taciturne, prince d'Orange, publiée pour la première fois, suivie de pièces inédits sur l'assassinat de ce prince et sur les récompenses accordées par Philippe 2. à la famille de Balthazar Gérard par m. Gachard: Tome 6 |date=1857 |publisher=C. Muquard |page=xc |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sN8-hLzdn9sC&dq=Balthasar+G%C3%A9rard+%221557%22+Vuillafans&pg=PR90 |access-date=18 October 2023 |language=fr}}</ref>
** [[Toda Katsushige]], Japanese warlord (d. [[1600]])
** [[Olaus Martini]], [[Archbishop of Uppsala]] (d. [[1609]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fnat |first1=Johan Erik |title=Upsala Arkestifts Herdaminne. Hft. 1-7 |date=1842 |publisher=Wahlstrom & Lastbom |page=19 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6YldAAAAcAAJ&dq=Olaus+Martini+%221557%22&pg=PA19 |access-date=18 October 2023 |language=sv}}</ref>
** [[Thomas Morley]], English composer (d. [[1602]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Murray |first1=Tessa |title=Thomas Morley: Elizabethan Music Publisher |date=2014 |publisher=Boydell & Brewer Ltd |isbn=978-1-84383-960-6 |page=4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZzQ3BAAAQBAJ&q=1557 |access-date=18 October 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
** [[Oda Nobutada]], Japanese general (d. [[1582]])<ref>{{cite book |title=O-umajirushi: A 17th-Century Compendium of Samurai Heraldry |date=2 February 2015 |publisher=The Academy of the Four Directions |isbn=978-0-692-37740-6 |page=114 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0BCzCAAAQBAJ&dq=Oda+Nobutada+%221557%22&pg=PR151 |access-date=18 October 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* ''probable'' &ndash; [[Giovanni Gabrieli]], Italian composer and organist (d. [[1612]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Apel |first1=Willi |title=Italian Violin Music of the Seventeenth Century |date=1990 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=978-0-253-30683-8 |page=15 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DP5i52zOXcIC&dq=Giovanni+Gabrieli+%221557%22&pg=PA15 |access-date=18 October 2023 |language=en}}</ref>