Famous Birthdays In 1540

Jan 25 On this day in history birth of edmund Campion, London, saint/Jesuit martyr (Decem Rationes)

Jan 28 On this day in history birth of ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (d. 1610)

Jun 03 Charles I of Austria (d. 1590) was born on this day in history.

Jun 11 On this day in history birth of barnabe Googe, English poet (d. 1594)

Jun 23 Johann Baptista Serranus, composer was born in the year 1540.

Jul 11 On this day in history birth of adolf van Nassau, German son of Willem the Rich/Juliana of Stolberg

Aug 05 Joseph Justice Scaliger, proposed Julian dating was born in the year 1540.

Aug 26 On this day in history birth of king Magnus of Livonia (d. 1583)

Oct 01 On this day in history birth of johann Jakob Grynaeus, Swiss Protestant clergyman (d. 1617)

Dec 31 Silvio Antoniano, Italian cardinal/theologist (Tre libri) was born in the year 1540.

Jan 27 In the year 1540 angela Merici, Italian monk/monastery, dies

Feb 02 George Schenck van Toutenburg, gov/viceroy of Frisia/Groningen died in the year 1540.

Mar 30 On this day in history death of matthäus Lang von Wellenburg, German statesman and Archbishop of Salzburg (b. 1469)

May 06 On this day in history jean Luis Vives, Spanish theory/humanist/reformer, dies at 48

May 22 In the year 1540 francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian/pres of Romagna, dies at 57

Jul 11 On this day in history jan Szapolyai, anti-king of Hungarian, dies

Jul 21 On this day in history john I Zapolyai, prince of Transsylvania/king of Hungary, dies

Jul 28 On this day in history death of thomas Cromwell, King Henry VIII's chief minister, executed