What is 1563?
{{Year nav|1563}} {{Year in various calendars|1563}} '''1563''' ([[Roman numerals|MDLXIII]]) was a [[common year starting on Friday]] in the [[Julian calendar]] and a [[common year starting on Tuesday]] in the [[proleptic Gregorian calendar]]. == Births == * January &ndash; [[Leonhard Hutter]], German Lutheran theologian (d. [[1616]]) * [[January 30]] &ndash; [[Franciscus Gomarus]], Dutch theologian (d. [[1641]]) * [[March 5]] &ndash; [[John Coke]], English politician (d. [[1644]]) * [[April 15]] &ndash; [[Guru Arjan Dev]], fifth Sikh leader (A. [[1606]]) * [[June 1]] &ndash; [[Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury]], English statesman and spymaster (d. [[1612]]) * [[September 4]] &ndash; [[Wanli Emperor]] of China (d. [[1620]]) * [[October 14]] &ndash; [[Jodocus Hondius]], Flemish artist (d. [[1633]]) * [[November 8]] &ndash; [[Henry I, Duke of Lorraine]] (d. [[1624]]) * [[November 19]] &ndash; [[Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester]], English statesman (d. [[1626]]) * [[December 19]] &ndash; [[Lord William Howard]] (d. [[1640]]) * ''date unknown'' ** [[Yi Su-gwang]], Korean scholar (d. [[1628]]) ** [[Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devonshire]] (d. [[1606]]) ** [[John Dowland]], English composer (d. [[1626]]) ** [[Michael Drayton]], English poet (d. [[1631]]) ** [[Scipione Gentili]], Italian legal scholar (d. [[1616]]) ** [[Anna Guarini]], Italian virtuoso singer (d. [[1598]]) ** [[Hosokawa Gracia]], Japanese noblewoman (d. [[1600]]) ** [[Marcin Kazanowski]], Polish nobleman (d. [[1636]]) ** [[Zygmunt Kazanowski]], Polish nobleman (d. [[1634]]) ** [[Robert Naunton]], English politician and writer (d. [[1635]]) ** [[Joshua Sylvester]], English poet (d. [[1618]]) ** [[Jean Titelouze]], French organist and composer (d.1633) == Deaths == * [[February 1]] &ndash; Emperor [[Menas of Ethiopia]] (b. [[1559]]) * [[February 24]] &ndash; [[Francis, Duke of Guise]], French soldier and politician (b. [[1519]]) * [[March 24]] &ndash; [[Hosokawa Harumoto]], Japanese military leader (b. [[1514]]) * [[March 28]] &ndash; [[Heinrich