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In the year 1526, the new Mughal emperor Babur begins the richest dynasty in the world, the Mughal Empire, which lasts until 1857 (Apr 21), the first complete printed translation of the New Testament into the English language by William Tyndale arrives in England from Germany (spring), Emperor Go-Nara ascends to the throne of Japan (Jun 9), gunsmith Bartolomeo Beretta establishes the Beretta Gun Company, one of the world’s oldest corporations, Spanish conquistadors led by Francisco Pizarro and his brothers first reach Inca territory in South America - and all these fine people were born:
1526-xxxx Kenau Simonsdochter Hasselaer* wood merchant/l egendary folk hero for her fearless defense of Haarlem against the Spanish invaders in 1573 – Haarlem, Habsburg Netherlands, Holy Roman Empire (1588/62)
1526-xxxx Azai Hisamasa* 浅井 久政, Japanese warlord - Japan (1573/47)
1526-0101 Louis Bertrand* Dominican friar/known as the “Apostle to the Americas”/venerated as a saint - Valencia, Spanish Empire (1581/55)
1526-0120 Rafael Bombelli* Italian mathematician (imaginary numbers) - Bologna, Papal States (1572/46)
1526-0201 Niiro Tadamoto* 新納 忠元 skilled samurai called Oni Musashi - Japan (1611/84)
1526-0202 Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski* Polish nobleman - Ostróg, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1608/82) the DOB is disputed
1526-0219 Carolus Clusius* (b Charles de l' Écluse) physician/pioneering botanist - Arras, County of Artois, Spanish Netherlands (1609/83)
1526-0304 Henry Carey* nobleman/courier/son of Mary Boleyn and cousin of Elizabeth I - England (1598/70)
1526-0311 Heinrich Rantzau* German humanist writer/astrologer/patron of scholars - Steinburg (1598/62)
1526-0405 Giuseppe Arcimboldo* Italian painter - Milan, Duchy of Milan (1593/c. 66)
1526-0420 Ulrich Fugger* German humanist - Augsburg (1584/58)
1526-0430 Beate Clausdatter Bille* Danish noblewoman/mother of Tycho Brahe - Skarhult Castle, Province of Scania (1605/79)
1526-0609 Matsudaira Hirotada* 松平 広忠 lord of Okazaki Castle in Mikawa province during the Sengoku Period/father of Tokugawa Ieyasu, founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate - Japan (1549/22)
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1526-0625 Elisabeth Brooke* noblewoman/ courtier -Kent, England (1565/38)
1526-0709 Elizabeth of Austria* Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania by marriage - Linz, Archduchy of Austria, Holy Roman Empire (1545/18)
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1526-0722 Johann Stromer* German jurist - Auerbach in der Oberpfalz (1607/81)
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1526-0818 Claude II de Lorraine* nobleman/military commander/governor - Joinville, Kingdom of France (1573/46)
1526-0822 Adolph of Nassau-Saarbrücken* German nobleman/Count of Nassau - Saarbrücken (1559/33)
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1526-0923 Henry Manners* nobleman - England (1563/36)
1526-0926 Wolfgang of Zweibrücken* Count Palatine - Zweibrücken (1569/42)
1526-1001 Dorothy Stafford* noblewoman/influential at the court of Queen Elizabeth I - England (1604/77)
1526-1030 Hubert Goltzius* painter/engraver/printer - Southern Netherlands (1583/56)
1526-1101 Catherine Jagiellon* wife of King John III of Sweden – Krakow, Poland (1583/56)
1526-1112 Andreas Gaill* one of the leading jurists of the Holy Roman Empire - Cologne (1587/61)
1526-1212 Álvaro de Bazán* Spanish nobleman/landlord/admiral - Granada, Kingdom of Granada, Crown of Castile (1588/61)
1526-1226 Rose Lok* businesswoman/autobiographer - London, England (1613/86)
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