Famous Personalities Born 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 In the year 1540 birth of charles I of Austria (d. 1590)  

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

Jun 23 In the year 1540 birth of johann Baptista Serranus, composer  

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

Aug 05 On this day in history birth of joseph Justice Scaliger, proposed Julian dating  

Aug 26 King Magnus of Livonia (d. 1583) was born on this day in history.  

Oct 01 In the year 1540 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 Jean Luis Vives, Spanish theory/humanist/reformer, dies at 48 on this day in history.  

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

Jul 11 In the year 1540 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 In the year 1540 death of thomas Cromwell, King Henry VIII's chief minister, executed