James VI and I
19 June 1566
Christopher Marlowe26 February 1564
British
John Dee13 July 1527
British
Tukaram1608 AD
Indian
Veronica Franco25 March 1546
Italian,Filipino
Ismail I17 July 1487
Iranian
Emilia Lanier1569 AD
British
Francis de Sales16 August 1567
French,Italian
Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana17 December 1556
Indian
Benvenuto Cellini03 November 1500
Italian
John Amos Comenius28 March 1592
Czech
Lope de Vega25 November 1562
Spanish
Anne Askew1521 AD
British
Robert Bellarmine04 October 1542
Italian
Catalina de Erauso1592 AD
Spanish
Torquato Tasso11 March 1544
Italian
Francisco de Quevedo14 September 1580
Spanish
Thomas Kyd06 November 1558
British
Pierre de Ronsard11 September 1524
French
Giambattista Basile1566 AD
Italian
Duarte BarbosaPortuguese
Pietro Aretino19 April 1492
Italian
Conrad Gessner26 March 1516
Swiss
Thomas Middleton18 April 1580
British
Mikael Agricola1509 AD
Finnish
Luis de León1527 AD
Spanish
Bihari Lal1595 AD
Indian
Alexandre de Rhodes15 March 1591
French
Michael Drayton1563 AD
British
Xu Guangqi04 May 1562
Chinese
Hans Staden1525 AD
German
Tirso de Molina24 March 1579
Spanish
Jan Kochanowski1530 AD
Polish
George Buchanan01 February 1506
Scottish
Joost van den Vondel17 November 1587
Dutch
Primož Trubar19 June 1508
Slovenian
Martin Chemnitz09 November 1522
German
Thomas Tusser1524 AD
British
Thomas Dekker1572 AD
British
Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski20 September 1503
Polish
Garcilaso de la Vega06 February 1501
Spanish
John Fletcher30 November 1579
British
William Drummond13 December 1585
Scottish
Mikołaj Rej04 February 1505
Polish
Teresa of Ávila28 March 1515
Spanish