{--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 On this day in history birth of ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (d. 1610)  

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

Jun 11 On this day in history birth of barnabe Googe, English poet (d. 1594)  

Jun 23 Johann Baptista Serranus, composer was born on this day in history.  

Jul 11 In the year 1540 birth of adolf van Nassau, German son of Willem the Rich/Juliana of Stolberg  

Aug 05 Joseph Justice Scaliger, proposed Julian dating was born in the year 1540.  

Aug 26 On this day in history 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 On this day in history birth of silvio Antoniano, Italian cardinal/theologist (Tre libri)  

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 In the year 1540 death of matthäus Lang von Wellenburg, German statesman and Archbishop of Salzburg (b. 1469)  

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

May 22 Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian/pres of Romagna, dies at 57 in the year 1540.  

Jul 11 On this day in history jan Szapolyai, anti-king of Hungarian, dies  

Jul 21 In the year 1540 john I Zapolyai, prince of Transsylvania/king of Hungary, dies  

Jul 28 Thomas Cromwell, King Henry VIII's chief minister, executed died in the year 1540.