1520 births
Category: 1520 births

Helen Leslie, Lady Newbattle
Scottish aristocrat

Ahmed al-Mandjur
Moroccan academic

Solomon Eskenazi
German–Jewish Ottoman statesman

Solomon Aben Yaesh
Portuguese-Jewish Ottoman statesman

Ismail Khan Lodi

Thomas Buchanan
Minister of the Church of Scotland

Georg Gerle

Claudio Marescotti
16th-century Roman Catholic bishop

Hendrik Jansen van Barrefelt

George Beeston
(c.1520-1601) of Beeston, Cheshire

Richard Eden
Of Sudbury, Suff. and South Hanningfield, Essex

William More
English politician

Jeanne de Gontaut
French noblewoman and lady-in-waiting to Catherine de Medici

Pedro de Deza
Spanish cardinal

Jan van Eeckele
Flemish painter

Antonio Avendaño y Paz
Spanish Roman Catholic prelate

John Hussey
Politician

Thomas Cokayne
English soldier and huntsman

John Spens
Scottish lawyer and judge, Lord Advocate

Robert Pitcairn
Scottish administrator, diplomat and judge

Rowland Hayward
London merchant and Lord Mayor

Olaus Canuti Helsingius
Swedish politician

Edward Bayntun
English politician, died 1593

Shahrukh of Shirvan

Simone Majoli
Italian bishop

Antonio de Guarás
Merchant and Spanish Ambassador to England

Ercole Procaccini the Elder
was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, mainly active in Milan

Esteban Royz d'Alpoim
Portuguese noble

Aonghus Fionn Ó Dálaigh
Irish poet

Jean de Ferrières
French noble

Hoste da Reggio
Italian composer

Sigebert Buckley
English Benedictine monk

John Chichester
High Sheriff of Devon; MP

Rolan de Mois
Flemish painter active in Spain

William Honnyng
English politician

Thomas Wharton, 2nd Baron Wharton
English Baron and MP

Marie De Cotteblanche
French translator

Sebastián Lemba
African pirate and slave rebel leader

Diego Guzmán de Silva
Ambassador of Spain

António de Gama Pereira
Portuguese judge