1563

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1530s 1540s 1550s – 1560s – 1570s 1580s 1590s
Years:	1560 1561 1562 – 1563 – 1564 1565 1566

Year 1563 (MDLXIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.

Births

January – Leonhard Hutter, German Lutheran theologian (d. 1616)
January 30 – Franciscus Gomarus, Dutch theologian (d. 1641)
March 5 – John Coke, English politician (d. 1644)
April 15 – Guru Arjan Dev, fifth Sikh leader (A. 1606)
June 1 – Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English statesman and spymaster (d. 1612)
September 4 – Wanli Emperor of China (d. 1620)
October 14 – Jodocus Hondius, Flemish artist (d. 1633)
November 8 – Henry I, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1624)
November 19 – Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English statesman (d. 1626)
December 19 – Lord William Howard (d. 1640)
date unknown
- Yi Su-gwang, Korean scholar (d. 1628)
- Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devonshire (d. 1606)
- John Dowland, English composer (d. 1626)
- Michael Drayton, English poet (d. 1631)
- Scipione Gentili, Italian legal scholar (d. 1616)
- Anna Guarini, Italian virtuoso singer (d. 1598)
- Hosokawa Gracia, Japanese noblewoman (d. 1600)
- Marcin Kazanowski, Polish nobleman (d. 1636)
- Zygmunt Kazanowski, Polish nobleman (d. 1634)
- Robert Naunton, English politician and writer (d. 1635)
- Joshua Sylvester, English poet (d. 1618)
- Jean Titelouze, French organist and composer (d.1633)

February 1 – Emperor Menas of Ethiopia (b. 1559)
February 24 – Francis, Duke of Guise, French soldier and politician (b. 1519)
March 24 – Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese military leader (b. 1514)
March 28 – Heinrich Glarean, Swiss music theorist (b. 1488)
May 21 – Martynas Mažvydas, writer of the first printed book in Lithuanian (b. 1510)
?June – Elizabeth Seymour, Marchioness of Winchester, English noblewoman (b. 1513)
June 6 – Ikeda Nagamasa, Japanese military commander (b. 1519)
June 9 – William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English statesman (b. 1506)
August 11 – Bartolomé de Escobedo, Spanish composer (b. 1500)
August 18 – Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and writer (b. 1530)
September 17 – Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, English soldier (b. 1526)
November – Ioan Iacob Heraclid, ruler of Moldavia (b. 1511)
December 29 – Sebastian Castello, French theologian (b. 1515)
date unknown – Odet de Selve, French diplomat (b. c. 1504)