In the year 1514, a huge exotic embassy sent by King Manuel I of Portugal to Pope Leo X arrives in Rome, including Hanno, an Indian elephant (Mar 12), Louis XII of France makes peace with Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (Mar 13), Henry Grace à Dieu, the largest warship in the world at the time, is dedicated (Jun 13), Christian II is crowned King of Norway - this coronation will be the last in Norway for 304 years until the crowning of King Karl XIV Johan in 1818 (July 20), King Louis XII of France marries Mary Tudor (sister of King Henry VIII of England), as part of the Kingdom of England’s peace with France (Oct 9), Mary Tudor is formally crowned as the Queen consort of France (Nov 5) – and all these fine people were born:
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1514-0123 Hai Rui* philosopher/politician - Haikou City, Ming China (1587/73)
1514-0127 Bernardino Maffei* Italian archbishop/cardinal/expert on numismatics - Rome, Kingdom of Italy, Holy Roman Empire (1553/39)
1514-0208 Daniele Barbaro* cleric/ diplomat/architect - Venice, Republic of Venice (1570/56)
1514-0216 Georg Joachim Rheticus* mathematician (Nicolaus Copernicus’s sole pupil)/astronomer/cartographer - Feldkirch, Archduchy of Austria, Holy Roman Empire (1574/60)
1514-0222 Johannes Gigas* German Protestant theologian/hymn writer/educator - Nordhausen, Thuringia (1581/67)
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1514-0308 Amago Haruhisa* 尼子 晴久 daimyō warlord in the Izumo Province - Izumo Province, Japan (1561/46)
1514-0323 Lorenzino de' Medici* politician/ writer/dramatist - Florence, Republic of Florence (1548/33)
1514-0406 Joachim Mörlin* Lutheran theologian - Wittenberg, Electorate of Saxony (1571/57)
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1514-0430 Alexander Stewart* Duke of Ross/son of King James IV of Scotland and Margaret Tudor - Stirling Castle, Scotland (1515/1)
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1514-0528 Shimazu Takahisa* 島津 貴久 son of Shimazu Tadayoshi/daimyō during Sengoku period - Izaku Castle, Japan (1571/57)
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1514-0616 John Cheke* English classical scholar/statesman - Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England (1557/43)
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1514-0715 Peter Tiara* Dutch physician/philologist - Workum (1586/71)
1514-0726 Wiguleus Hund* German lawyer/ historian- Kaltenberg (1588/73)
1514-0813 Joachim Mynsinger von Frundeck* German lawyer/poet - Stuttgart (1588/73)
1514-0829 García Álvarez de Toledo y Osorio* Spanish general/politician - Villafranca del Bierzo, Spanish Empire (1577/62)
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1514-0924 Prospero Santacroce* Roman Catholic bishop/cardinal/diplomat - Rome, Kingdom of Italy, Holy Roman Empire (1589/75)
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1514-1010 Michael von Kuenburg* Archbishop of Salzburg - (1560/46)
1514-1028 Queen Inseong* Korean royal/queen consort of Joseon - Joseon (1578/63)
1514-1031 Wolfgang Lazius* Austrian physician/historian/cartographer - Vienna, Habsburg Dynasty (1565/50)
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1514-1129 Andreas Musculus* German Lutheran theologian/Protestant reformer - Schneeberg (1581/66)
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1514-1217 Johann Basilius Herold* German printer/historian - Höchstädt an der Donau (1567/52)
1514-1231 Andreas Vesalius* (b Andries van Wesel) Dutch anatomist /physician/author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy – Brussels, Habsburg Netherlands (1564/49)
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