page_title: 1581
section_title: Births
hierarchical_section_title: 1581 / Births
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Doppelportrait von Fürst Georg I. von Anhalt-Dessau (1567-1618) und seiner Gemahlin Dorothea von Pfalz-Simmern (1581-1631), um 1600
context_page_description: Year 1581 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, and a common year starting on Thursday of the Proleptic Gregorian calendar.
context_section_description: January 4 – James Ussher, Anglo-Irish priest and scholar (d. 1656)
  January 6 – Countess Palatine Dorothea of Simmern, Princess consort of Anhalt-Dessau (d. 1631)
  January 30 – Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1603–1655) (d. 1655)
  February 17 – Fausto Poli, Italian Catholic prelate and cardinal (d. 1653)
  March 16 – Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch historian (d. 1647)
  April 24 – Vincent de Paul, French Roman Catholic priest who dedicated himself to serving the poor (d. 1660)
  May 4 – Arnold Möller, German calligrapher (d. 1655)
  May 21 – Robert More, English politician (d. 1626)
  May 22 – Archduchess Gregoria Maximiliana of Austria, Austrian archduchess (d. 1597)
  June 21 – Edward Barrett, 1st Lord Barrett of Newburgh, English politician (d. 1645)
  June 27 – Louis Günther I, Count of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1630–1646) (d. 1646)
  July 18 – Pier Luigi Carafa, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1655)
  July 20 – Isidoro Bianchi, Italian painter (d. 1662)
  July 25 – Brian Twyne, English archivist (d. 1644)
  August 5 – Hedwig of Denmark, Danish princess (d. 1641)
  August 15 – Jeremias Drexel, Jesuit writer of devotional literature and a professor of the humanities and rhetoric (d. 1638)
  September 21 – Simon Archer, English politician (d. 1662)
  September 27 – Juan Damián López de Haro, Spanish Catholic bishop of Puerto Rico (d. 1648)
  October 9 – Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician (d. 1638)
  October 21 – Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (d. 1641)
  November 1 – William Hockmere, English politician (d. 1626)
  November 11 – Edward Popham, English politician (d. 1641)
  November 18 – Carlo I Cybo-Malaspina, marquisate of Massa (d. 1662)
  November 26 – Frederick, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sønderburg-Norburg (d. 1658)
  December 17 – Walter Davison, English poet (d. 1600)
  December 26 – Philip III, Landgrave of Hesse-Butzbach (1609–1643) (d. 1643)
  December 27 – Jean Chalette, French painter (d. 1643)
  date unknown
  Gasparo Aselli, Italian physician (d. 1626)
  Jeremias Drexel, German Jesuit writer of devotional literature
  Edmund Gunter, English mathematician (d. 1626)
  Jean du Vergier de Hauranne, French monk who introduced Jansenism into France (d. 1643)
  Charles Malapert, Belgian Jesuit writer (d. 1630)
  Łukasz Opaliński (1581–1654), Polish nobleman (d. 1654)
  Thomas Overbury, English poet and essayist (d. 1613)
  Johannes Rudbeckius, bishop at Västerås (d. 1646)
  Choghtu Khong Tayiji, ruler of the Khalkha Mongols (d. 1637)
  probable
  Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Mexican dramatist (d. 1639)
  Sisto Badalocchio, Italian painter and engraver (d. 1647)
caption: Countess Palatine Dorothea of Simmern
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