Editing 1579 (section)

== Births ==
[[File:Hidetada2.jpg|110px|thumbnail|right|[[Tokugawa Hidetada]]]]
* [[January 4]] &ndash; [[Willem Teellinck]], Dutch pastor (d. [[1629]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Engelberts |first1=Willem Jodocus Matthias |title=Willem Teellinck|date=1898 |publisher=Scheffer & Company |page=3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GHUrAAAAYAAJ&q=%20%224%20januari%201579%22 |access-date=30 January 2024 |language=nl}}</ref>
* [[January 6]] &ndash; [[Juan Manuel Pérez de Guzmán, 8th Duke of Medina Sidonia]], Spanish nobleman, Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece (d. [[1636]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Juan Manuel Alonso Pérez de Guzmán el Bueno  |url=https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/6851/juan-manuel-alonso-perez-de-guzman-el-bueno |website=dbe.rah.es |access-date=30 January 2024}}</ref>
* [[January 23]] &ndash; [[Marie of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth]] (d. [[1649]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Anzeiger des Germanischen Nationalmuseums |date=2000 |publisher=Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nurnberg |page=113 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k2LrAAAAMAAJ&q=%2223%20januar%201579%22 |access-date=30 January 2024 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[January 27]] &ndash; [[Antonio Tornielli]], Italian Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Novara (1636–1650) (d. [[1650]])
* [[February 24]] &ndash; [[Johann Jacob Grasser]], Swiss poet, historian and theologian (d. [[1627]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde |date=1989 |publisher=R. Reich |page=46 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ejhtAAAAIAAJ&q=%20%2224%20februar%201579%22 |access-date=30 January 2024 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[March 23]] &ndash; [[Francis Mansell]], English academic (d. [[1665]])<ref>{{cite ODNB |title=Mansell, Francis|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-17991|year=2004 |access-date=30 January 2024 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/17991}}</ref>
* [[April 10]] &ndash; [[Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg]] (d. [[1666]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Jahrbuch des Provinzialmuseums zu Hannover |date=1909 |publisher=Wilh. Riemschneider |page=65 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eVk7AQAAMAAJ&dq=August+der+J%C3%BCngere+10+aprile+1579&pg=RA5-PA65 |access-date=2 March 2024 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[April 12]] &ndash; [[François de Bassompierre]], French courtier (d. [[1646]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Journal de ma vie Mémoires du maréchal de Bassompierre publiée avec fragments inédits pour la Société de l'histoire de France par le Mis de Chantérac: Tome 1 |date=1870 |publisher=Mme Ve Jules Renouard |page=IX |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6gu9-ZfeFCMC&dq=Fran%C3%A7ois+de+Bassompierre+%2212+avril+1579%22&pg=PR9 |access-date=2 March 2024 |language=fr}}</ref>
* [[May 1]] &ndash; [[Wolphert Gerretse]], Dutch founder of the New Netherland Colony (d. [[1662]])
* [[May 2]] &ndash; [[Tokugawa Hidetada]], Japanese shōgun (d. [[1632]])
* [[June 17]] &ndash; [[Louis I, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen]], German prince (d. [[1650]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Mittheilungen aus der historischen Litteratur |date=1878 |publisher=Weidmann |page=220 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=00SfBVDKjvAC&dq=Ludwig+I.+%2217+juni+1579%22&pg=PA220 |access-date=2 March 2024 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[June 18]] &ndash; [[Afonso Mendes]], Patriarch of Ethiopia (d. [[1659]])
* [[July 2]] &ndash; [[Janusz Radziwiłł (1579–1620)|Janusz Radziwiłł]], Lithuanian and Polish nobleman (d. [[1620]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Łukaszewicz |first1=Józef |title=Dzieje kosciołów wyznania helweckiego w Litwie |date=1842 |publisher=Drukarni Orędownik |page=164 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7tJbAAAAcAAJ&dq=Janusz+Radziwi%C5%82%C5%82+%2222+lipca+1579%22&pg=PA164 |access-date=2 March 2024 |language=pl}}</ref>
* [[July 6]]
** [[Bernardino de Almansa Carrión]], Spanish Catholic prelate and Archbishop (d. [[1633]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Indias |first1=Archivo General de |title=Historia de la Compañía de Jesús en la provincia del Paraguay: (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Perú, Bolivia y Brasil) según los documentos originales del Archivo General de Indias |date=1912 |publisher=V. Suárez |page=384 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EJJCAAAAYAAJ&dq=Bernardino+de+Almansa+Carri%C3%B3n+%226+de+julio+de+1579%22&pg=PA384 |access-date=2 March 2024 |language=es}}</ref>
** [[Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire]], English noble (d. [[1622]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Stephen |first1=Leslie |last2=Lee |first2=Sir Sidney |title=Dictionary of National Biography |date=1909 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=565 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pxpbAAAAIAAJ&dq=Francis+Norris+%226+july+1579%22&pg=PA565 |access-date=2 March 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[July 13]] &ndash; [[Arthur Dee]], English physician and alchemist (d. [[1651]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Raines |first1=Francis Robert |title=The Rectors of Manchester: And the Wardens of the Collegiate Church of that Town |date=1885 |publisher=Chetham Society |page=111 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WGpKAAAAYAAJ&dq=Arthur+Dee+%2213+july+1579%22&pg=PA111 |access-date=2 March 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[August 1]] &ndash; [[Luis Vélez de Guevara]], Spanish dramatist and novelist (d. [[1644]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Luis Vélez de Guevara |url=https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/5159/luis-velez-de-guevara |website=dbe.rah.es |access-date=2 March 2024}}</ref>
* [[August 18]] &ndash; [[Countess Charlotte Flandrina of Nassau]], Dutch-French abbess (d. [[1640]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Roosbroeck |first1=Robert van |title=Willem van Oranje, droom en gestalte |date=1962 |publisher=Uitgeverij Heideland |page=183 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ceINAQAAIAAJ&q=Charlotte+Flandrina+%2218+augustus+1579%22 |access-date=2 March 2024 |language=nl}}</ref>
* [[August 21]] &ndash; [[Henri, Duke of Rohan]], French Huguenot soldier and writer (d. [[1638]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Chesnaye-Desbois |first1=Franc̜ois Alexandre Aubert de La |title=Dictionnaire de la noblesse, contenant les généalogies, l'histoire & la chronologie des familles nobles de France |date=1778 |publisher=La veuve Duchesne |page=279 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EJ5YAAAAMAAJ&dq=Henri+II+de+Rohan+%2221+aout+1579%22&pg=PA279 |access-date=2 March 2024 |language=fr}}</ref>
* [[August 23]] &ndash; [[Thomas Dempster]], Scottish scholar and historian (d. [[1625]])<ref>{{cite ODNB |title=Dempster, Thomas|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-7473|year=2004 |access-date=2 March 2024 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/7473}}</ref>
* [[September 1]] &ndash; [[John Frederick of Holstein-Gottorp, Prince-Bishop]], German Catholic archbishop (d. [[1634]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Wappenbuch zu der zweiten Auflage von Dr. Kamill von Behr's Genealogie der in Europa regierenden Fürstenhäuser |date=1890 |publisher=B. Tauchnitz |page=13 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lY5VAAAAcAAJ&dq=Johann+Friedrich+von+Schleswig+1+september+1579&pg=PA13 |access-date=2 March 2024 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[September 3]] &ndash; [[Louis I, Count of Erbach-Erbach]] (1606–1643) (d. [[1643]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Hessian Biography |url=https://www.lagis-hessen.de/pnd/1012548104 |website=www.lagis-hessen.de |access-date=2 March 2024}}</ref>
* [[September 16]] &ndash; [[Samuel Coster]], Dutch writer (d. [[1665]])<ref>{{cite web |title=[Dr. Samuel Adriaensz Koster of Coster], Biographisch woordenboek der Noord- en Zuidnederlandsche letterkunde, F. Jos. van den Branden, J.G. Frederiks |url=https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bran038biog01_01/bran038biog01_01_2339.php |website=DBNL |access-date=2 March 2024 |language=nl}}</ref>
* [[September 17]] &ndash; [[Charles Howard, 2nd Earl of Nottingham]], English noble (d. [[1642]])<ref>{{cite web |title=HOWARD, Charles II (1579-1642), of Effingham, Surr. |url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/howard-charles-ii-1579-1642 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org |access-date=2 March 2024}}</ref>
* [[October 4]] &ndash; [[Guido Bentivoglio]], Italian cardinal (d. [[1644]])<ref>{{cite web |title=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of January 11, 1621 |url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1621.htm#Bentivoglio |website=cardinals.fiu.edu |access-date=2 March 2024}}</ref>
* [[October 18]] &ndash; [[Anthony Abdy (1579–1640)|Anthony Abdy]], English merchant (d. [[1640]])
* [[November 7]] &ndash; [[Juan de Peñalosa]], Spanish painter (d. [[1633]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Perales |first1=Francisco Valverde y |title=Historia de la villa de Baena |date=1903 |publisher=La Viuda é Hijos de J. Peláez |page=384 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mBYrAQAAMAAJ&dq=Juan+de+Pe%C3%B1alosa+%227+de+noviembre+de+1579%22&pg=PA384 |access-date=2 March 2024 |language=es}}</ref>
* [[November 11]] &ndash; [[Frans Snyders]], Flemish painter (d. [[1657]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Koester |first1=Olaf |title=Flemish Paintings, 1600-1800 |date=2000 |publisher=Statens Museum for Kunst |isbn=978-87-90096-05-2 |page=231 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VejqAAAAMAAJ&q=%2211%20november%201579%22 |access-date=2 March 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[November 12]] &ndash; [[Albrecht of Hanau-Münzenberg]], German nobleman (d. [[1635]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Suchier |first1=Reinhard |title=Festschrift des Hanauer Geschichtsvereins zu seiner fünfzigjährigen Jubelfeier am 27. August 1894 |date=1894 |publisher=Heydt |page=15 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xns4eKVoLnkC&dq=Albrecht+von+Hanau+%2212+november+1579%22&pg=PA15 |access-date=2 March 2024 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[November 16]] &ndash; [[Federico Baldissera Bartolomeo Cornaro]], Italian Catholic cardinal (d. [[1653]])<ref>{{cite web |title=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of January 19, 1626 |url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1626.htm#Cornaro |website=cardinals.fiu.edu |access-date=2 March 2024}}</ref>
* [[December 9]] &ndash; [[Martin de Porres]], Peruvian monk, Roman Catholic saint (d. [[1639]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Walsh |first1=Michael J. |title=The Book of Saints |date=1994 |publisher=Twenty-Third Publications |isbn=978-0-89622-628-9 |page=127 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E83FYBIUR3cC&q=%229%20december%201579%22 |access-date=2 March 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[December 20]] ''(bapt.)'' &ndash; [[John Fletcher (playwright)|John Fletcher]], English dramatist (d. [[1625]])<ref>{{cite ODNB |title=Fletcher, John|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-9730|year=2004 |access-date=2 March 2024 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/9730}}</ref>
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** [[Jacob Astley, 1st Baron Astley of Reading]], royalist commander in the English Civil War (d. [[1652]])<ref>{{cite ODNB |title=Astley, Jacob, first Baron Astley of Reading|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-817|year=2004 |access-date=2 March 2024 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/817}}</ref>
** [[Arthur Johnston (poet)|Arthur Johnston]], Scottish physician and poet (d. [[1641]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Farquhar |first1=Alexander |title=Neo-Latin Literature and Literary Culture in Early Modern Scotland |date=1 January 2017 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-33073-3 |pages=203–222 |url=https://brill.com/display/book/9789004330733/B9789004330733_010.xml |access-date=2 March 2024 |language=en |chapter=8 Arthur Johnston (c. 1579–1641): A Scottish Neo-Latin Poet in Europe}}</ref>
** [[John Ogilvie (saint)|John Ogilvie]], Scottish Jesuit, Roman Catholic saint (martyred [[1615]])<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Dilworth |first1=Mark |title=Three Documents Relating to St John Ogilvie |journal=Innes Review |date=1983 |volume=34 |issue=2 |pages=51–65 |doi=10.3366/inr.1983.34.2.51 |url=https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/inr.1983.34.2.51?journalCode=inr |access-date=2 March 2024}}</ref>
** [[Johannes Meursius]], Dutch classical scholar and antiquary (d. [[1639]])<ref>{{cite web |title=[Meursius, Johannes], Nieuw Nederlandsch biografisch woordenboek. Deel 7 |url=https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/molh003nieu07_01/molh003nieu07_01_1546.php |website=DBNL |access-date=30 January 2024 |language=nl}}</ref>