page_title: 1508
section_title: Births
hierarchical_section_title: 1508 / Births
context_page_description: Year 1508 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.
context_section_description: February 17 – Bernardo Salviati, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1568)
  April 3 – Jean Daurat, French writer and scholar (d. 1588)
  April 5 – Ercole II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, Italian noble (d. 1559)
  April 23 – Georg Sabinus, German writer (d. 1560)
  May 8 – Charles Wriothesley, English Officer of Arms (d. 1562)
  June 8 – Primož Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer who lays the foundations for the Slovenian written language (d. 1586)
  June 10 – Hedwig of Münsterberg-Oels, German noble (d. 1531)
  June 13 – Alessandro Piccolomini, Italian humanist and philosopher from Siena (d. 1579)
  June 29 – Balthasar of Hanau-Münzenberg, German nobleman (d. 1534)
  September 19 – Maria Paleologa, Italian noblewoman (d. 1530)
  September 23 – Simon Sulzer, Swiss theologian (d. 1585)
  September 25 – Francisco Mendoza de Bobadilla, Spanish Catholic cardinal (d. 1566)
  November 23 – Francis, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, youngest son of Henry the Middle (d. 1549)
  November 25 – Cristofano Gherardi, Italian painter (d. 1556)
  November 30 – Andrea Palladio, Italian architect (d. 1580)
  December 9 – Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (d. 1555)
  December 21 – Thomas Naogeorgus, German playwright (d. 1563)
  December 24 – Pietro Carnesecchi, Italian humanist (d. 1567)
  date unknown
  Livio Agresti, Italian painter (d. 1580)
  Matsunaga Hisahide, Japanese daimyo (d. 1577)
  Marin Držić, Croatian playwright (d. 1567)
  possible
  Isabel de Josa, Catalan writer (d. 1575)
  Jane Seymour, third queen of Henry VIII of England (d. 1537)
caption: Andrea Palladio
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