Editing 1581 (section)

== Births ==
[[File:JohannGeorgAnhDorotheaSimmern.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Countess Palatine Dorothea of Simmern]]]]
[[File:Jakob de Monte 004.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Archduchess Gregoria Maximiliana of Austria]]]]
[[File:Hedevig af Sachsen.JPG|thumb|110px|right|Princess [[Hedwig of Denmark]]]]
[[File:Tho overbury.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Thomas Overbury]]]]
* [[January 4]] &ndash; [[James Ussher]], Anglo-Irish priest and scholar (d. [[1656]])
* [[January 6]] &ndash; [[Countess Palatine Dorothea of Simmern]], Princess consort of Anhalt-Dessau (d. [[1631]])
* [[January 30]] &ndash; [[Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth]] (1603–1655) (d. [[1655]])
* [[February 17]] &ndash; [[Fausto Poli]], Italian Catholic prelate and cardinal (d. [[1653]])
* [[March 16]] &ndash; [[Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft]], Dutch historian (d. [[1647]])
* [[April 24]] &ndash; [[Vincent de Paul]], French [[Roman Catholic]] priest who dedicated himself to serving the poor (d. [[1660]])
* [[May 4]] &ndash; [[Arnold Möller]], German calligrapher (d. [[1655]])
* [[May 21]] &ndash; [[Robert More (MP, born 1581)|Robert More]], English politician (d. [[1626]])
* [[May 22]] &ndash; [[Archduchess Gregoria Maximiliana of Austria]], Austrian archduchess (d. [[1597]])
* [[June 21]] &ndash; [[Edward Barrett, 1st Lord Barrett of Newburgh]], English politician (d. [[1645]])
* [[June 27]] &ndash; [[Louis Günther I, Count of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt]] (1630–1646) (d. [[1646]])
* [[July 18]] &ndash; [[Pier Luigi Carafa (1581–1655)|Pier Luigi Carafa]], Italian Catholic cardinal (d. [[1655]])
* [[July 20]] &ndash; [[Isidoro Bianchi]], Italian painter (d. [[1662]])
* [[July 25]] &ndash; [[Brian Twyne]], English archivist (d. [[1644]])
* [[August 5]] &ndash; [[Hedwig of Denmark]], Danish princess (d. [[1641]])
* [[August 15]] &ndash; [[Jeremias Drexel]], Jesuit writer of devotional literature and a professor of the humanities and rhetoric (d. [[1638]])
* [[September 21]] &ndash; [[Simon Archer (antiquary)|Simon Archer]], English politician (d. [[1662]])
* [[September 27]] &ndash; [[Juan Damián López de Haro]], Spanish Catholic bishop of [[Puerto Rico]] (d. [[1648]])
* [[October 9]] &ndash; [[Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac]], French mathematician (d. [[1638]])
* [[October 21]] &ndash; [[Domenico Zampieri]], Italian painter (d. [[1641]])
* [[November 1]] &ndash; [[William Hockmere]], English politician (d. [[1626]])
* [[November 11]] &ndash; [[Edward Popham (MP for Bridgwater)|Edward Popham]], English politician (d. [[1641]])
* [[November 18]] &ndash; [[Carlo I Cybo-Malaspina]], marquisate of Massa (d. [[1662]])
* [[November 26]] &ndash; [[Frederick, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sønderburg-Norburg]] (d. [[1658]])
* [[December 17]] &ndash; [[Walter Davison]], English poet (d. [[1600]])
* [[December 26]] &ndash; [[Philip III, Landgrave of Hesse-Butzbach]] (1609–1643) (d. [[1643]])
* [[December 27]] &ndash; [[Jean Chalette]], French painter (d. [[1643]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Gasparo Aselli]], Italian physician (d. [[1626]])
** [[Jeremias Drexel]], German Jesuit writer of devotional literature
** [[Edmund Gunter]], English mathematician (d. [[1626]])
** [[Jean du Vergier de Hauranne]], French monk who introduced Jansenism into France (d. [[1643]])
** [[Charles Malapert]], Belgian Jesuit writer (d. [[1630]])
**[[Giulia Tofana]], Italian poisoner (d. [[1651]])
** [[Łukasz Opaliński (1581–1654)]], Polish nobleman (d. [[1654]])
** [[Thomas Overbury]], English poet and essayist (d. [[1613]])
** [[Johannes Rudbeckius]], bishop at Västerås (d. [[1646]])
** [[Choghtu Khong Tayiji]], ruler of the Khalkha Mongols (d. [[1637]])
* ''probable''
** [[Juan Ruiz de Alarcón]], Mexican dramatist (d. [[1639]])
** [[Sisto Badalocchio]], Italian painter and engraver (d. [[1647]])