1561

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1530s  1540s  1550s  – 1560s –  1570s  1580s  1590s
Years:	1558 1559 1560 – 1561 – 1562 1563 1564

Births

• January 6 – Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist (died 1656)
• January 22 – Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher, scientist, and statesman (died 1626)
• July 11 – Luís de Góngora y Argote, Spanish poet (died 1627)
• August 20 – Jacopo Peri, Italian composer (died 1633)
• August 24 – Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk (died 1626)
• August 25 – Philippe van Lansberge, Dutch astronomer (died 1632)
• September 29 – Adriaan van Roomen, Belgian mathematician (died 1615)
• December 7 – Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese politician (d. 1625)
• December 9 – Edwin Sandys, English founder of the colony of Virginia (died 1629)
• Jacopo Corsi, Italian composer (died 1602)
• John Harington, English writer (died 1612)
• Samuel Harsnett, Archbishop of York (died 1631)