Mary, Queen of Scots, at Madame Tussauds in London
In the year 1586, the deposed and imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots, recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir (Jun 16), English explorer Thomas Cavendish begins the first deliberately planned circumnavigation of the globe (Jul 21), Mary, Queen of Scots, is placed on treason trial, and then sentenced to death (Oct 15-25), Flemish mathematician Simon Stevin publishes a study showing that two objects of different weight fall with the same speed – and all these fine people were born:
1586-0101 Pau Claris i Casademunt* Catalan lawyer,/clergyman/proclaimer of the Catalan Republic in 1641 - Barcelona (1641/55)
1586-0120 Johann Hermann Schein* German composer - Grünhain, Saxony (1630/44)
1586-0208 Jacob Praetorius* German organist/ composer - Hamburg (1651/65)
1586-0215 Jacques de Bela* French-Basque lawyer/writer in basque language - Mauléon-Licharre, Kingdom of France (1667/81)
1586-0220 Hachisuka Yoshishige* 蜂須賀 至鎮 daimyō of the Edo period - Japan (1620/34)
1586-0312 Jean Dolbeau* Recollect friar/missionary in New France - Province of Anjou, Kingdom of France (1652/66)
1586-0318 Gabriel Bengtsson Oxenstierna* jurist/ diplomat/statesman - Lindholmen Castle, Swedish Empire (1656/70)
1586-0328 Domenico Massenzio* Italian composer - (1657/71)
1586-0402 Pietro Della Valle* composer/ musicologist/author - Rome, Papal States (1652/66)
1586-0405 Christopher Levett* naval captain/ explorer/writer - York, England (1630/c.44)
1586-0420 Rose of Lima* (b Isabel Flores de Oliva) lay member of the Dominican Order/declared a saint - Lima, Viceroyalty of Peru (1617/3
1586-0502 Étienne de Courcelles* Arminian Greek scholar/translator - (1659/73)
1586-0509 Tsugaru Nobuhira* 津軽 信枚 daimyō of Hirosaki Domain/served under Tokugawa Ieyasu - Japan (1631/44)
1586-0511 Angelo Giori* Italian Catholic Cardinal - Capodacqua (1662/76)
1586-0624 George John II* Count Palatine of Lützelstein-Guttenberg - Lützelstein (1654/68)
1586-0628 Paul Siefert* German organist/ composer - Danzig, Polish Prussia (1666/79)
1586-0701 Claudio Saracini* Italian lutenist/singer/composer - Siena (1630/44)
1586-0705 Thomas Hooker* prominent Puritan colonial leader/founder of the Connecticut Colony - Leicestershire, England (1647/61)
1586-0726 Diego de Colmenares* historian/writer - Segovia, Spanish Empire (1651/64)
1586-0814 William Hutchinson* (B) founder of Rhode Island – Alford, Lincolnshire, England (1641/c. 55)
1586-0817 Johannes Valentinus Andreae* German theologian - Herrenberg, Duchy of Württemberg (1654/67)
1586-0915 Antoon Sanders* Flemish Catholic cleric/historian - Anrwerp (1664/77)
1586-0929 William Lytton* politician/ MP/High Sheriff of Hertfordshire - England (1660/73)
1586-1007 Isaac Massa (B) Dutch grain trader/traveller/diplomat - Haarlem (1643/c. 56)
1586-1020 Luke Foxe* explorer in North America - Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire, England (1635/48)
1586-1028 Francis West* Deputy Governor of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia - Salisbury, Wiltshire, England (1633 or 1634/c. 47)
1586-1120 Polykarp Leyser II* German Lutheran theologian - Wittenberg (1633/46)
1586-1123 Juan Bautista de Lezana* Carmelite theologian - Madrid, Spanish Empire (1659/72)
1586-1128 Thomas Bowyer* nobleman - Leighthorne, Sussex, England (1651/64)
1586-1206 Niccolò Zucchi* Jesuit/ astronomer/physicist - Parma, Duchy of Parma (1670/83)
1586-1214 Georg Calixtus* German Lutheran theologian/ looked to reconcile all Christendom - Medelby, Schleswig (1656/69)
1586-1231 Magdalene Sibylle of Prussia* Electress of Saxony/6th times matrilineal great grandmother to Queen Victoria - Königsberg (1659/72)
Updated 15.6.2022
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