What is 1561?
{{Year nav|1561}} {{Year in various calendars|1561}} '''1561''' ([[Roman numerals|MDLXI]]) was a [[common year starting on Wednesday]] in the [[Julian calendar]] and a [[common year starting on Sunday]] in the [[proleptic Gregorian calendar]]. == Births == * [[January 6]] – [[Thomas Fincke]], Danish mathematician and physicist (died [[1656]]) * [[January 22]] – Sir [[Francis Bacon]], English philosopher, scientist, and statesman (died [[1626]]) * [[July 11]] – [[Luís de Góngora y Argote]], Spanish poet (died [[1627]]) * [[August 20]] – [[Jacopo Peri]], Italian composer (died [[1633]]) * [[August 24]] – [[Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk]] (died [[1626]]) * [[August 25]] – [[Philippe van Lansberge]], Dutch astronomer (died [[1632]]) * [[September 29]] – [[Adriaan van Roomen]], Belgian mathematician (died [[1615]]) *[[December 7]] – [[Kikkawa Hiroie]], Japanese politician (d. [[1625]]) * [[December 9]] – [[Edwin Sandys (American colonist)|Edwin Sandys]], English founder of the colony of Virginia (died [[1629]]) * [[Jacopo Corsi]], Italian composer (died [[1602]]) * [[John Harington]], English writer (died [[1612]]) * [[Samuel Harsnett]], Archbishop of York (died [[1631]]) [[Category:1561| ]]