William Shakespeare26 April 1564, British
Writer
Niccolò Machiavelli03 May 1469, Italian
Political Philosopher
Christopher Marlowe26 February 1564, British
Playwright, Poet
Walter Raleigh22 January 1554, British
Politician, Writer, Explorer, Aristocrat
Kabir1440 AD, Indian
Saint and Mystic Poet
Jonathan Swift30 November 1667, Irish
Author and Satirist
John Donne22 January 1572, British
Poet, lawyer, satirist
Mirabai1498 AD, Indian
Bhakti Saint
Miguel de Cervantes29 September 1547, Spanish
Novelist
Ben Jonson11 June 1572, British
Dramatist, Poet & Actor
Edmund Spenser1552 AD, British
Poet
Götz von Berlichingen1480 AD, German
Imperial Knight, Mercenary, Poet
François Rabelais04 February 1494, French
Writer
George Herbert03 April 1593, British, Welsh
Poet
Veronica Franco25 March 1546, Italian
Courtesan, Poetess
Emilia Lanier31 December 1569, British
Poet
Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana17 December 1556, Indian
Poet
Giambattista della Porta01 November 1535, Italian
Scholar, Polymath
Ravidas1377 AD, Indian
Poet
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey1517 AD, British
Politician
Ismail I17 July 1487, Iranian
sovereign, poet, writer
Reginald Pole03 March 1500, British
Archbishop of Canterbury
Philip Sidney30 November 1554, British
Poet
Anne Askew1521 AD, British
poet
Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak14 January 1556, Indian
Author
Mary Sidney27 October 1561, British
Countess
Benvenuto Cellini03 November 1500, Italian
Sculptor, Writer, Medallist, Painter,
John Amos Comenius28 March 1592, Czech
Writer, Linguist, Presbyter, Theologian,
Lope de Vega25 November 1562, Spanish
Playwright, Poet, Writer
Robert Bellarmine04 October 1542, Italian
Theologian, Writer, Librarian, University teacher,
Vidyapati1352 AD, Indian
Poet
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Thomas Kyd06 November 1558, British
playwright, writer
Eknath1533 AD, Indian
Saint
John Harington04 August 1561, British
English author
John Lyly1553 AD, British
Writer
Pietro Aretino19 April 1492, Italian
Poet, Writer, Playwright, Journalist
Torquato Tasso11 March 1544, Italian
Poet, Writer, Playwright, Poet lawyer
Wu Cheng'en1500 AD, Chinese
Novelist
Izaak Walton09 August 1593, British
Writer
Robert Burton08 February 1577, British
Scholar
Thomas Nashe31 October 1567, British
Playwright
John Foxe1516 AD, British
Historian
Anne Of France03 April 1461, French
Regent of France
Francisco de Quevedo14 September 1580, Spanish
writer, poet
Charles de Valois, Duke of Angoulême28 April 1573, French
Nobleman
Thomas Middleton18 April 1580, British
Playwright, Poet, Writer
Richard Hakluyt1553 AD, British
Writer
Izumo no Okuni1572 AD, Japanese
Inventor
Edward Winslow18 October 1595, British
Author
Bihari Lal1595 AD, Indian
Poet
Dadu Dayal1544 AD, Indian
Hindu saint
John Fletcher30 November 1579, British
playwright, poet, writer
Pierre de Ronsard11 September 1524, French
Poet, Writer
Edmond Hoyle1672 AD, British
Writer
Michael Drayton1563 AD, British
Poet, Writer
George Peele25 July 1556, British
Translator
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega12 April 1539, Peruvian
Chronicler
Giambattista Basile1566 AD, Italian
writer, poet, children's writer
Sir Robert Filmer1588 AD, British
Political scientist
Thomas Dekker1572 AD, British
playwright, poet, writer
Catalina de Erauso1592 AD, Spanish
explorer, military personnel, writer
Rupa Goswami1493 AD, Bangladeshi
Scholar and author
Thomas Morton1579 AD, American
English clergyman
Thomas Overbury18 June 1581, British
Poet
Duarte BarbosaPortuguese
Hans Staden1525 AD, German
explorer, writer, autobiographer
Jan Kochanowski1530 AD, Polish
poet
Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala1535 AD, Peruvian
Chronicler
Gurdās, Bhāī1551 AD, Indian
Sikh writer
John Skelton1463 AD, British
Poet
Garcilaso de la Vega06 February 1501, Spanish
poet, soldier
John of Ávila06 January 1499, Spanish
Priest
Xu Guangqi04 May 1562, Chinese
mathematician, astronomer, writer
Alexandre de Rhodes15 March 1591, French
Lexicographer, Linguist, Writer, Missionary
Nicholas Ferrar22 February 1592, British
Scholar
Tang Yin06 March 1470, Chinese
Painter
Mikael Agricola1509 AD, Finnish
linguist, priest, translator, theologian
Johannes Reuchlin29 January 1455, German
Scholar
John Heywood1497 AD, British
Writer
William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling1567 AD, Scottish
Courtier
Tirso de Molina24 March 1579, Spanish
Playwright, Poet, Writer
George Buchanan01 February 1506, Scottish
linguist, poet, historian, translator
Thomas Lodge1558 AD, British
Writer
Roger Ascham1515 AD, British
Scholar
William Dunbar1459 AD, Scottish
Poet
Catherine of Ricci23 April 1522, Italian
Italian Dominican mystic
Robert Southwell1561 AD, British
Poet
Joseph Karo1488 AD, Spanish
Author
Ralph Fitch1550 AD, British
Explorer
George Sandys02 March 1578, British
Traveler
Philip Henslowe1550 AD, British
Entrepreneur
Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset1536 AD, British
Poet
Ivan Gundulić08 January 1589, Croatian
Poet
Samuel Daniel1562 AD, British
Poet