Editing 1571 (section)

== Births ==
[[File:ShahAbbasPortraitFromItalianPainter.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Abbas I of Safavid]]]]
[[File:Portrait Confused With Johannes Kepler 1610.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Johannes Kepler]]]]
* [[January 9]] &ndash; [[Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy]], French soldier in Habsburg service (d. [[1621]])
* [[January 27]] &ndash; [[Abbas I of Safavid]], [[Safavid dynasty|Shah of Iran]] (d. [[1629]])
* [[February 15]] &ndash; [[Michael Praetorius]], German composer and writer on music (d. [[1621]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Raymond Russell|title=The Harpsichord and Clavichord: An Introductory Study|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zony3r0TiPYC|year=1965|publisher=October House|page=96}}</ref>
* [[March 31]] &ndash; [[Pietro Aldobrandini]], Italian cardinal, archbishop (d. [[1621]])
* [[April 17]] &ndash; [[Adam Contzen]], German economist (d. [[1635]])
* [[April 22]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Branca]], Italian architect and engineer (d. [[1645]])
* [[April 24]] &ndash; [[Sur Singh]], Ruler of [[Marwar]] (d. [[1619]])
* [[May 11]] &ndash; [[Niwa Nagashige]], Japanese warlord (d. [[1637]])
* [[June 17]] &ndash; [[Thomas Mun]], English writer on economics (d. [[1641]])
* [[July 16]] &ndash; [[Theodoor Galle]], Flemish engraver (d. [[1633]])
* [[August 2]] &ndash; [[Charles, Duke of Guise]], son of Henry I (d. [[1640]])
* [[August 14]] &ndash; [[Anders Bure]], founder of Swedish [[cartography]] (d. [[1646]])
* [[September 12]] &ndash; [[Álvaro de Bazán, 2nd Marquis of Santa Cruz]] (d. [[1646]])
* [[September 21]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Battista Magnani]], Italian architect (d. [[1653]])
* [[September 29]] &ndash; [[Caravaggio]], Venetian artist (d. [[1610]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Gilles Neret|title=Caravaggio|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lMKcAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA93|publisher=Taschen|isbn=978-3-8365-3685-1|pages=93}}</ref>
* [[October 7]]
** [[Anton Henry, Count of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen]] from 1586 (d. [[1638]])
** [[Maria, Abbess of Quedlinburg]], German abbess (d. [[1610]])
* [[October 15]] &ndash; [[Jacob Matham]], Dutch artist (d. [[1631]])
* [[October 18]] &ndash; [[Wolfgang Ratke]], German educational reformer (d. [[1635]])
* [[November 18]] &ndash; [[Hippolytus Guarinonius]], Italian physician and polymath (d. [[1654]])
* [[December 3]] &ndash; [[Lakshmi Kumara Thathachariar]], Indian saint (d. [[1643]])
* [[December 4]] &ndash; [[Ferdinand, Prince of Asturias]], Spanish prince (d. [[1578]])
* [[December 9]] &ndash; [[Metius]], Dutch mathematician and astronomer (d. [[1635]])
* [[December 20]]
** [[Giles de Coninck]], Flemish Jesuit theologian (d. [[1633]])
** [[Scévole de Sainte-Marthe (1571–1650)|Scévole de Sainte-Marthe]], French historian (d. [[1650]])
* [[December 27]] &ndash; [[Johannes Kepler]], German astronomer (d. [[1630]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Acta universitatis palackianae olomucensis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UwYWAAAAIAAJ|year=1978|page=61}}</ref>
* [[December 31]] &ndash; [[Emperor Go-Yōzei]] of Japan (d. [[1617]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Henry Ainsworth]], English Nonconformist clergyman and scholar (d. [[1622]])
** [[William Bedell]], Anglican churchman (d. [[1642]])
** [[Willem Blaeu]], Dutch cartographer (d. [[1638]])
** [[Charles Butler (beekeeper)|Charles Butler]], English beekeeper and philologist (d. [[1647]]) 
** [[Inés de Hinojosa]], Venezuelan [[hacendada]] (b. [[1540]])
** [[Frederick de Houtman]], Dutch explorer (d. [[1627]])
** [[Esther Inglis]], French (?British-born) calligrapher (d. [[1624]])
** [[Lucrezia Marinella]], Italian poet and author (d. [[1653]])
** [[Paulus Moreelse]], Dutch painter (d. [[1638]])
** [[Hugh Roe O'Donnell]], Irish chieftain and rebel (d. [[1603]])
** [[Aleksander Ostrogski]], Polish nobleman (d. [[1603]])
** [[Alessandro Peretti di Montalto]], Venetian cardinal (d. [[1623]])
** [[Thomas Storer]], English poet (d. [[1604]])
** [[Thomas Wintour]], English [[Gunpowder Plot]] conspirator (d. [[1606]])