{--page_num--}Famous Personalities Born In 1540

Jan 25 Edmund Campion, London, saint/Jesuit martyr (Decem Rationes) was born in the year 1540.  

Jan 28 Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (d. 1610) was born on this day in history.  

Jun 03 In the year 1540 birth of charles I of Austria (d. 1590)  

Jun 11 Barnabe Googe, English poet (d. 1594) was born on this day in history.  

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

Jul 11 In the year 1540 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 In the year 1540 birth of king Magnus of Livonia (d. 1583)  

Oct 01 Johann Jakob Grynaeus, Swiss Protestant clergyman (d. 1617) was born in the year 1540.  

Dec 31 Silvio Antoniano, Italian cardinal/theologist (Tre libri) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 27 On this day in history angela Merici, Italian monk/monastery, dies  

Feb 02 In the year 1540 death of george Schenck van Toutenburg, gov/viceroy of Frisia/Groningen  

Mar 30 Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg, German statesman and Archbishop of Salzburg (b. 1469) died in the year 1540.  

May 06 Jean Luis Vives, Spanish theory/humanist/reformer, dies at 48 in the year 1540.  

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 On this day in history death of thomas Cromwell, King Henry VIII's chief minister, executed