page_title: 1544
section_title: Births
hierarchical_section_title: 1544 / Births
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Portrait Anna von Sachsen
context_page_description: 1544 was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1544th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 544th year of the 2nd millennium, the 44th year of the 16th century, and the 5th year of the 1540s decade. As of the start of 1544, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.
context_section_description: January 19 – King Francis II of France (d. 1560)
  January 24 – Gillis van Coninxloo, Flemish painter (d. 1607)
  February 3 – César de Bus, French Catholic priest (d. 1607)
  March 11 – Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (d. 1595)
  April – Thomas Fleming, English judge (d. 1613)
  April 20 – Renata of Lorraine, duchess consort of Bavaria (d. 1602)
  May 24 – William Gilbert, English scientist and astronomer (d. 1603)
  July 14 – Henry Compton, 1st Baron Compton, English politician (d. 1589)
  August 9 – Bogislaw XIII, Duke of Pomerania (d. 1606)
  September 1 – John Gordon, Scottish bishop (d. 1619)
  September 29 – Giovanni de' Medici, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1562)
  November 1 – Hasan Kafi Pruščak, Bosnian scholar and judge (d. 1615)
  November 15 – Dorothea Susanne of Simmern, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar (d. 1592)
  December 23 – Anna of Saxony, only child and heiress of Maurice, Elector of Saxony (d. 1577)
  date unknown
  Richard Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1610)
  Thomas Hobson, English carrier and origin of the phrase Hobson's choice (d. 1631)
  Ikeda Tomomasa, Japanese military commander (d. 1603)
  Maddalena Casulana, Italian composer, lutenist and singer (d. 1590)
  probable
  George Whetstone, English writer (d. 1587)
caption: Anna of Saxony
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