page_title: 1551
section_title: Births
hierarchical_section_title: 1551 / Births
context_page_description: Year 1551 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.
context_section_description: January 5 – Jean Chapeauville, Belgian theologian and historian (d. 1617)
  January 14 – Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak,  Grand vizier of the Mughal emperor Akbar (d. 1602)
  January 26 – Robert Dormer, 1st Baron Dormer, English politician (d. 1616)
  February 2 – Nicolaus Reimers, German astronomer (d. 1600)
  March 9 – Alessandro Alberti, Italian painter (d. 1596)
  March 21 – Maria Anna of Bavaria (d. 1608)
  March 30 – Salomon Schweigger, German theologian (d. 1622)
  April 9 – Peter Monau, German physician (d. 1588)
  April 30 – Jacopo da Empoli, Italian painter (d. 1640)
  May 2 – William Camden, English historian (d. 1623)
  May 8 – Thomas Drury, English government informer and swindler (d. 1603)
  May 17 – Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (d. 1608)
  September 19 – King Henry III of France (d. 1589)
  October 4 – Philip VI, Count of Waldeck (1567–1579) (d. 1579)
  October 8 – Giulio Caccini, Italian composer (d. 1618)
  October 26 – Charlotte de Sauve, French courtesan (d. 1617)
  November 11 – Giovanni I Cornaro, Doge of Venice (d. 1629)
  date unknown
  Bhai Gurdas – original scribe of Guru Granth Sahib
  George Tuchet, 1st Earl of Castlehaven (d. 1617)
  Fausto Veranzio, Dalmatian/Croatian humanist (d. 1617)
  Job of Pochayiv, Ukrainian Christian Orthodox Saint (d. 1651)
  probable
  Boris Godunov, Tsar of Russia (d. 1605)
  Stanisław Stadnicki, Polish nobleman (d. 1610)
caption: Maria Anna of Bavaria
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