King Henry VIII of England (1491-1547). Picture credit: Paris Orlando
In the year 1547, Grand Duke Ivan IV of Muscovy becomes the first Tsar of Russia, to be known also as Ivan the Terrible (Jan 16), King Henry VIII of England dies in London (Jan 28), and Edward VI of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey (Feb 20), the Duchy of Brittany unites with the Kingdom of France (Aug 13), Yarmouth Castle on the Isle of Wight is completed, Huguenots increasingly immigrate to the English county of Kent, Edward VI of England outlaws execution by boiling - and all these fine people were born:
1547-xxxx Tuomas Eskonpoika Kirkon-Kokko** father of Heikki Tuomaanpoika Kirkon-Kokko - Ilmajoki, Sweden-Finland (after 1635)
1547-0120 Laurence Bruce* politician/ sheriff of the Shetland Islands/the builder of Muness Castle - Cultmalindie, Perthshire, Scotland (1617/70)
1547-0124 Joanna of Austria* Archduchess of Austria/Grand Duchess of Tuscany - Prague, Bohemia (1578/31)
1547-0208 Girolamo Mattei* nobleman/ Cardinal/art collector - Rome, Papal States (1603/56)
1547-0224 John of Austria* German military leader/illegitimate son of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V - Regensburg, Upper Palatinate (1578/31)
1547-0301 Rudolph Goclenius* German philosopher - Korbach, Waldeck (1628/81)
1547-0326 Bernardino Bertolotti* Italian instrumentalist/ composer - (after 1609)
1547-0408 Lucrezia Bendidio* Italian noblewoman/ singer - Ferrara (after 1584)
1547-0510 Magnus Pegel* German physician/mathematician/one of the first to write about the theory of blood transfusions - Rostock, Pomerania (1619/72)
1547-0519 Gustaf Banér* nobleman/civil servant - Djursholm Castle, Sweden (1600/52)
1547-0628 Cristofano Malvezzi (B) Italian organist/ composer - Lucca (1599/51)
1547-0705 Garzia de' Medici* son of Cosimo I de' Medici - Florence, GD of Tuscany (1562/15)
1547-0810 Francis II* Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg - Ratzeburg, n Schleswig-Holstein (1619/71)
1547-0914 Johan van Oldenbarnevelt* Dutch statesman/revolutionary (the Dutch struggle for independence from the Habsburg Castilian Empire) - Amersfoort (1619/71)
1547-0920 Faizi* (b Abu al-Faiz ibn Mubarak) Indo-Persian poet/scholar - Agra (1595/48)
1547-0922 Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin* German philologist/ playwright/astronomer - Erzingen, Duchy of Württemberg (1590/43)
1547-0929 Miguel de Cervantes* writer (Don Quixote) - Alcalá de Henares, Spain (1616/68, assumed birthdate)
1547-1018 Justus Lipsius* Flemish philologist/philosopher (Stoicism)/humanist - Overijse, Spanish Netherlands (1606/58)
1547-1029 Princess Sophia of Sweden* daughter of King Gustav Vasa - Stockholm, Sweden (1611/63)
1547-1107 Rudolf Hospinian* (b Wirth) Swiss Reformed theologian/controversialist - Zürich, Old Swiss Confederacy (1626/78)
1547-1110 Martin Moller* poet/ mystic - Ließnitz, Saxony-Anhalt (1606/58)
1547-1110 Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg* Archbishop-Elector of Cologne - Heiligenberg (1601/53)
1547-1112 Claude of France* princess/daughter of King Henry II of France - Fontainebleau, Kingdom of France (1575/27)
1547-1126 Nicolaus Taurellus* German philosopher/medical academic - County of Mömpelgard, Duchy of Württemberg (1606/58)
1547-1205 Ubbo Emmius* German historian/geographer - Greetsiel, Lower Saxony(1625/78)
1547-1215 Magdalena of Nassau-Dillenburg* German noblewoman/philanthropist - Dillenburg Castle, Hesse (1633/85)
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Updated 4.9.2023-2 Helsinki-Stockholm
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