Editing 1568 (section)

== Births ==
[[File:Urban VIII.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Pope Urban VIII]]]]
* [[January 6]] &ndash; [[Henri Spondanus]], French historian (d. [[1643]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wetzer |first1=H. J. |title=Dictionnaire encyclopédique de la théologie catholique |date=1864 |publisher=Gaume |page=367 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bXhkIz7ZemgC&dq=Henri+Spondanus+%226+janvier+1568%22&pg=PA367 |access-date=8 December 2023 |language=fr}}</ref>
* [[January 14]] &ndash; [[Johannes Hartmann]], German chemist (d. [[1631]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Pharmazeutische Zeitung, vereinigt mit Apotheker-Zeitung |date=1957 |publisher=Govi-Verlag Pharmazeutischer Verlag GmbH |page=1326 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eMEZb9LZSPUC&q=%20%2214%20januar%201568%22 |access-date=8 December 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[January 20]] &ndash; [[Daniel Cramer]], German theologian (d. [[1637]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Das Reformationszeitalter |date=1886 |publisher=LS Ehlermann |location=Dresden |page=142 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d2o9myYh8zkC&dq=Daniel+Cramer+%2220+januar+1568%22&pg=PA142 |access-date=8 December 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[January 28]] &ndash; [[Gustav of Sweden (1568–1607)|Gustav of Sweden]], Swedish prince (d. [[1607]])
* [[January 30]] &ndash; [[Katharina of Hanau-Lichtenberg]], countess (d. [[1636]])
* [[February 2]] &ndash; [[Péter Révay]], Hungarian historian (d. [[1622]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Irodalomtörténeti közlemények |date=1977 |publisher=Akadémiai Kiadó |page=494 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LxNZAAAAMAAJ&q=%221568.%20febru%C3%A1r%202.%22 |access-date=8 December 2023 |language=hu}}</ref>
* [[February 11]] &ndash; [[Honoré d'Urfé]], French writer (d. [[1625]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Germa |first1=Bernard |title=L'Astrée d'Honoré d'Urfé: sa composition - son influence |date=1904 |publisher=E. Privat |page=13 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9BpFAQAAMAAJ&dq=Honor%C3%A9+d%27Urf%C3%A9+%2211+fevrier+1568%22&pg=PA13 |access-date=8 December 2023 |language=fr}}</ref>
* [[March 9]] &ndash; [[Aloysius Gonzaga]], Italian Jesuit and saint (d. [[1591]])<ref>{{cite web |title=LUIGI Gonzaga, santo - Treccani |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/santo-luigi-gonzaga_(Enciclopedia-Italiana)/ |website=Treccani |access-date=8 December 2023 |language=it}}</ref>
* [[March 16]] &ndash; [[Juan Martínez Montañés]], Spanish sculptor (d. [[1649]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Díaz |first1=José Hernández |last2=Montañés |first2=Juan Martínez |title=Juan Martínez Montañés (1568-1649) |date=1987 |publisher=Ediciones Guadalquivir |isbn=978-84-86080-04-4 |page=21 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RGjqAAAAMAAJ&q=Juan+Mart%C3%ADnez+Monta%C3%B1%C3%A9s+%2216+de+marzo+de+1568%22 |access-date=8 December 2023 |language=es}}</ref>
* [[March 28]] &ndash; [[Johannes Polyander]], Dutch theologian (d. [[1646]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Johannes Polyander: een dienaar van kerk en universiteit |date=24 December 2018 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-38189-6 |page=8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TAD1DwAAQBAJ&q=%20%2228%20maart%201568%22 |access-date=8 December 2023 |language=nl}}</ref>
* [[March 30]] &ndash; [[Henry Wotton]], English author and diplomat (d. [[1639]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sharp |first1=Robert Farquharson |title=A Dictionary of English Authors, Biographical and Bibliographical |date=1904 |publisher=K. Paul, Trench, Trübner |isbn=978-0-87821-045-9 |page=305 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UPQXAAAAMAAJ&dq=Henry+Wotton+%2230+march+1568%22&pg=PA305 |access-date=8 December 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[April 5]] &ndash; [[Pope Urban VIII]] (d. [[1644]])<ref>{{cite web |title=URBANO VIII |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/urbano-viii_(Enciclopedia-dei-Papi)/ |website=Treccani |access-date=8 December 2023 |language=it}}</ref>
* [[April 17]] &ndash; [[George Brooke (conspirator)|George Brooke]], English aristocrat (d. [[1603]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=McKeen |first1=David |title=A Memory of Honour: The Life of William Brooke, Lord Cobham |date=1986 |publisher=Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg |page=162 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AMQgAAAAMAAJ&q=%20%2217%20april%201568%22 |access-date=8 December 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[April 21]] &ndash; [[Frederick II, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp]] (d. [[1587]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hansen |first1=Johann Friedrich |title=Vollständigere Staatsbeschreibung des Herzogthums Schleswig |date=1770 |publisher=Korte |page=192 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T41YAAAAcAAJ&dq=Friedrich+II+%2221+april+1568%22&pg=PA192 |access-date=8 December 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[April 28]] &ndash; [[Teodósio II, Duke of Braganza]], Portuguese nobleman and father of João IV of Portugal (d. [[1630]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Anales de la Real Academia Matritense de Heráldica y Genealogía |publisher=RAMHG |page=152 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Usw-0zh9bMQC&dq=Teod%C3%B3sio+II+%2228+de+abril+de+1568%22&pg=PA152 |access-date=8 December 2023 |language=es}}</ref>
* [[May 9]] &ndash; [[Guglielmo Caccia]], Italian painter (d. [[1625]])
* [[May 11]] &ndash; [[Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg]], German prince of the House of Ascania (d. [[1630]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Deinet |first1=Klaus |title=Christian I. von Anhalt-Bernburg (1568-1630): Eine Biographie des Scheiterns |date=15 July 2020 |publisher=Kohlhammer Verlag |isbn=978-3-17-038317-3 |page=17 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B6zxDwAAQBAJ&q=%2211%20mai%201568%22 |access-date=8 December 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[May 17]] &ndash; [[Anna Vasa of Sweden]], Swedish princess (d. [[1625]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Norrman |first1=David Emanuel |title=Sigismund Vasa och hans regering i Polen (1587-1632) |date=1978 |publisher=Norstedt |isbn=978-91-1-783362-6 |page=23 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e8tWAAAAYAAJ&q=%2217%20maj%201568%22 |access-date=10 December 2023 |language=sv}}</ref>
* [[May 29]] &ndash; [[Virginia de' Medici]], [[Duchess of Modena and Reggio]] (d. [[1615]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Miscellanea di storia italiana |date=1869 |publisher=Bocca |page=326 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EtJTAAAAcAAJ&dq=Virginia+de%27+Medici+%2229+maggio+1568%22&pg=PA826 |access-date=10 December 2023 |language=it}}</ref>
* [[June 6]] &ndash; [[Sophie of Brandenburg]], Regent of Saxony (1591–1601) (d. [[1622]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Allgemeine deutsche Biographie ...: Senckenberg |date=1892 |publisher=Duncker & Humblot |page=689 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RXjRaAn_b4MC&dq=Sophie+von+Brandenburg+%226+juni+1568%22&pg=PA689 |access-date=10 December 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[June 25]] &ndash; [[Gunilla Bielke]], Queen of Sweden (d. [[1597]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hofberg |first1=Herman |title=Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon |date=1906 |publisher=Albert Bonniers |page=89 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4qk7AQAAMAAJ&dq=Gunilla+Bielke+%2225+juni+1568%22&pg=PA89 |access-date=10 December 2023 |language=sv}}</ref>
* [[July 1]] &ndash; [[Philip Sigismund of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel]], German Catholic bishop (d. [[1623]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Zeitschrift des Harz-Vereins für Geschichte und Altertumskunde |date=1889 |publisher=Harzverein |page=233 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1OIGPJcPOaoC&dq=Philipp+Sigismund+%221+juli+1568%22&pg=PA233 |access-date=10 December 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[August 27]] &ndash; [[Hercule, Duke of Montbazon]] (d. [[1654]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Simplicien |first1=Paul Lucas |title=L'Etat de la France... Des troupes de la Maison du Roi... |date=1749 |publisher=chez d'Houry fils |page=512 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Iu0P892ySTgC&dq=Hercule+de+Rohan+%2227+aout+1568%22&pg=PA512 |access-date=10 December 2023 |language=fr}}</ref>
* [[September 3]] &ndash; [[Adriano Banchieri]], Italian composer (d. [[1634]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Unger |first1=Melvin P. |title=Historical Dictionary of Choral Music |date=14 August 2023 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-5381-2434-5 |page=32 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HGjQEAAAQBAJ&dq=Adriano+Banchieri+%223+september+1568%22&pg=PA32 |access-date=10 December 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[September 5]] &ndash; [[Tommaso Campanella]], Italian theologian and poet (d. [[1639]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Germana Ernst|title=Tommaso Campanella: The Book and the Body of Nature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IFhnDDX6oU8C&pg=PA2|date=16 March 2010|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-90-481-3126-6|pages=2}}</ref>
* [[October 2]] &ndash; [[Marino Ghetaldi]], Croatian mathematician and physicist (d. [[1626]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Marino Ghetaldi - Biography |url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Ghetaldi/ |website=Maths History |access-date=10 December 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[October 18]] &ndash; [[Henry Wallop (died 1642)|Henry Wallop]], English politician (d. [[1642]])<ref>{{cite web |title=WALLOP, Henry (1568-1642), of Farleigh Wallop, Hants. {{!}} History of Parliament Online |url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/wallop-henry-1568-1642 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org |access-date=10 December 2023}}</ref>
* [[November 18]] &ndash; [[Augustus the Elder, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg]], Lutheran Bishop of Ratzeburg (d. [[1636]])
* [[December 17]] &ndash; [[Jonathan Trelawny (High Sheriff of Cornwall)|Jonathan Trelawny]], English politician (d. [[1604]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rowe |first1=Joshua Brooking |title=A History of the Borough of Plympton Erle: The Castle and Manor of Plympton, and of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Plympton St. Thomas, in the County of Devon |date=1906 |publisher=J.G. Commin |pages=232–233 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l_UVAAAAYAAJ&dq=Jonathan+Trelawny+17+december+1568&pg=PA232 |language=en}}</ref>
* ''date unknown''
** [[Nikolaus Ager]], French botanist (d. [[1634]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Leibrock-Plehn |first1=Larissa |title=Hexenkräuter oder Arznei: die Abtreibungsmittel im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert |date=1992 |publisher=Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft |isbn=978-3-8047-1200-3 |page=107 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ysMeAQAAIAAJ&q=Nikolaus+Ager+%221568%22 |access-date=10 December 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
** [[John Welsh of Ayr]], Scottish Presbyterian leader<ref>{{cite book |last1=Young |first1=James |title=Life of John Welsh, Minister of Ayr: Including Illustrations of the Contemporary Ecclesiastical History of Scotland and France |date=1866 |publisher=J. Maclaren |page=9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EEIFAAAAYAAJ&dq=John+Welsh+%221568%22&pg=PA9 |access-date=10 December 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
** [[Edward Chichester, 1st Viscount Chichester]] (d. [[1648]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cokayne |first1=George Edward |title=The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom: Canonteign to Cutts |date=1913 |publisher=St. Catherine Press, Limited |page=198 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FglBQqITgvYC&dq=Edward+Chichester+%221568%22&pg=PA198 |access-date=10 December 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
** [[Nakagawa Hidemasa]], Japanese military leader (d. [[1592]])
** [[Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxóchitl]], Mexican historian (d. [[1648]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cayne |first1=Bernard S. |title=The Encyclopedia Americana |date=1981 |publisher=Grolier |isbn=978-0-7172-0112-9 |page=634 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YhoaAAAAMAAJ&q=Fernando+de+Alva+Cort%C3%A9s+%221568%22 |access-date=10 December 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
** [[Gervase Markham]], English poet and writer (d. [[1637]])<ref>{{cite ODNB |title=Markham, Gervase|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-18065|year=2004 |access-date=10 December 2023 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/18065}}</ref>
** [[Robert Wintour]], English conspirator (executed [[1606]])
** [[Wei Zhongxian]], Grand Secretary of China (d. [[1627]])<ref>{{cite journal |last1=McMahon |first1=Keith |title=The Potent Eunuch: The Story of Wei Zhongxian |journal=Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture |date=2014 |volume=1 |issue=1–2 |pages=1–28 |doi=10.1215/23290048-2749359 |s2cid=162821741 |url=https://read.dukeupress.edu/jclc/article-abstract/1/1-2/1/9994/The-Potent-Eunuch-The-Story-of-Wei-Zhongxian |access-date=10 December 2023}}</ref>
** [[Ōtsu Ono]], Japanese woman poet, koto, and writer (believed to have learned how to write from Nobutada Konoe) (d. 1631)