Editing 1562 (section)

== Births ==
[[File:徐光啟.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Xu Guangqi]]]]
[[File:LopedeVega.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Lope de Vega]]]]
* [[January]] &ndash; [[Edward Blount]], English publisher (d. [[1632]])
* [[January 12]] &ndash; [[Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy]] (d. [[1630]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Charles Emmanuel I {{!}} duke of Savoy {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Emmanuel-I |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=10 March 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[January 20]]
** [[Maria of Hanau-Münzenberg]], German noblewoman (d. [[1605]])
** [[Ottavio Rinuccini]], Italian composer (d. [[1621]])<ref>{{cite book|author=David Ewen|title=Encyclopedia of the Opera|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HPcKAQAAIAAJ|year=1963|publisher=Hill and Wang|page=432}}</ref>
* [[February 15]]
** [[Rascas de Bagarris]], French scholar (d. [[1620]])
** [[Maeda Toshinaga]], Japanese daimyō (noble) (d. [[1614]])
* [[April]] or May &ndash; [[Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck]], Dutch composer (d. [[1621]])
* [[April 21]] &ndash; [[Valerius Herberger]], German theologian (d. [[1627]])
* [[April 24]] &ndash; [[Xu Guangqi]], [[Ming Dynasty]] Chinese politician, agronomist, astronomer, mathematician and lay Catholic leader (d. [[1633]])
* [[April 25]] &ndash; [[Friedrich Wilhelm I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar]], German noble (d. [[1602]])
* [[May 6]] &ndash; [[Pietro Bernini]], Italian sculptor (d. [[1629]])
* [[May 26]] &ndash; [[James III, Margrave of Baden-Hachberg]] (d. [[1590]])
* [[May 28]] &ndash; [[John William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg]] (d. [[1609]])
* [[June 24]] &ndash; Duke [[François de Joyeuse]], French churchman and politician (d. [[1615]])
* [[June 26]] &ndash; [[Anne of Ostfriesland]], German noble, Electress Palatine (d. [[1621]])
* [[July 25]] &ndash; [[Katō Kiyomasa]], Japanese samurai (d. [[1611]])
* [[August 17]] ''(bapt.)'' &ndash; [[Hans Leo Hassler]], German composer (d. [[1612]])
* [[August 19]] &ndash; [[Charles II de Bourbon-Vendôme]], French cardinal (d. [[1594]])
* [[September 1]] &ndash; [[George, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg]] (1607–1620) and (1620–1623) (d. [[1623]])
* [[September 21]] &ndash; [[Vincenzo I Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua|Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua]] and Montferrat (1587–1612) (d. [[1612]])
* [[September 24]] &ndash; [[Ercole, Lord of Monaco]], Monegasque noble (d. [[1604]])
* [[October 4]] &ndash; [[Christian Sørensen Longomontanus]], Danish astronomer (d. [[1647]])
* [[October 19]] &ndash; [[George Abbot (bishop)|George Abbot]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] (d. [[1633]])
* [[November 25]] &ndash; [[Lope de Vega]], Spanish poet and dramatist (d. [[1635]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Lope de Vega|title=Three Major Plays|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9FPlqjVyuT4C&pg=PT11|date=21 January 1999|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-160536-9|pages=11}}</ref>
* [[December 10]] &ndash; [[Roger de Saint-Lary de Termes]], French noble (d. [[1646]])
* [[December 14]] &ndash; [[Sir Lionel Tollemache, 1st Baronet]], English baronet (d. [[1621]])
* [[December 18]] &ndash; [[Philipp Dulichius]], German composer (d. [[1631]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Isabella Andreini]], Italian actress (d. [[1604]])
** [[John Bull (composer)|John Bull]], English composer (d. [[1628]])
** [[Samuel Daniel]], English poet and historian (d. [[1619]])
** [[Francis Godwin]], English writer and bishop (d. [[1633]])
** [[George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly]], Scottish noble (d. [[1636]])
** [[Natsuka Masaie]], Japanese daimyō (noble) (d. [[1600]])
** [[Paulo Miki]], Japanese Catholic saint and martyr (d. [[1597]])
** [[Richard Neile]], English bishop (d. [[1640]])
** [[Henry Spelman]], English antiquary (d. [[1641]])
** [[Cornelis van Haarlem]], Dutch painter (d. [[1638]])