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 On this day in history birth of charles I of Austria (d. 1590)  

Jun 11 Barnabe Googe, English poet (d. 1594) was born in the year 1540.  

Jun 23 On this day in history birth of johann Baptista Serranus, composer  

Jul 11 Adolf van Nassau, German son of Willem the Rich/Juliana of Stolberg was born on this day in history.  

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

Aug 26 In the year 1540 birth of king Magnus of Livonia (d. 1583)  

Oct 01 Johann Jakob Grynaeus, Swiss Protestant clergyman (d. 1617) was born on this day in history.  

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

Jan 27 Angela Merici, Italian monk/monastery, dies in the year 1540.  

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 Jan Szapolyai, anti-king of Hungarian, dies on this day in history.  

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

Jul 28 Thomas Cromwell, King Henry VIII's chief minister, executed died in the year 1540.