* 1550 – Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford ( d. 1604 )

* 1516 – Tabinshwehti, King of Burma ( d. 1550 )

He married secondly to Anna Maria ( 1532 – 20 March 1568 ), daughter of Eric I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, in 1550.

Andrea Alciato ( May 8, 1492 – January 12, 1550 ), commonly known as Alciati ( Andreas Alciatus ), was an Italian jurist and writer.

File: Michelangelo Epifania. jpg | Room 90-Michelangelo's Epifania-his only surviving large scale cartoon ( 1550 – 53 )

Western casuistry dates from Aristotle ( 384 – 322 BC ), yet the zenith of casuistry was from 1550 to 1650, when the Society of Jesus used case-based reasoning, particularly in administering the Sacrament of Penance ( or " confession ").

Reopened at Trent on 1 May 1551 by convocation of Pope Julius III ( 1550 – 5 ), it was broken up by the sudden victory of Maurice, Elector of Saxony over the Emperor Charles V and his march into surrounding state of Tirol on 28 April 1552.

* 1550 – Orazio Vecchi, Italian composer ( baptism ) ( d. 1605 )

* 1581 – Ralph Sherwin, English Catholic saint ( b. 1550 )

* 1621 – Saint Job of Maniava, Ukrainian Orthodox Saint ( b. 1550 )

During the New Kingdom ( c. 1550 – 1070 BC ), Amun held this position.

* 1605 – Orazio Vecchi, Italian composer ( b. 1550 )

# John Albert ( 20 September 1499, Ansbach – 17 May 1550, Halle ), Archbishop of Magdeburg from 1545 to 1550.

The earliest known written account of the creation of a golem by a historical figure reported a tradition connected to Rabbi Eliyahu of Chelm ( 1550 – 1583 ).

* Bartrum, Giulia, German Renaissance Prints, 1490 – 1550 ( London, British Museum Press, 1995 ), ISBN 0-7141-2604-7

Ewuare's grandson Oba Esigie ( 1504 – 1550 ) eroded the power of the uzama ( state council ) and increase contact and trade with Europeans, especially with the Portuguese who provided a new source of copper for court art.

* 1480 – Tiedemann Giese, Polish bishop ( d. 1550 )

John Napier of Merchiston ( 1550 – 4 April 1617 ) – also signed as Neper, Nepair – named Marvellous Merchiston, was a Scottish landowner known as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer and astrologer.

* 1614 – Camillus de Lellis, Italian priest and saint ( b. 1550 )

The Early Commedia dell ' Arte ( 1550 – 1621 ): The Mannerist Context by Paul Castagno discusses Mannerism's infection of the contemporary professional theatre.

* 1495 – John of God, Portuguese-born friar and saint ( d. 1550 )

* July 19 – Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher ( b. 1550 )

), Galileo's fiercest detractor, and Cesare Cremonini ( 1550 – 1631 ), a Paduan colleague who had refused to look through the telescope.

Ballet flowered in Italy during the next hundred years, and about 1550 was carried to France when the Italian princess, Catherine De Medicis, married the King of France.

At the Anabaptist Council of Venice 1550, the early Italian instigators of the Radical Reformation committed to the views of Miguel Servet ( d. 1553 ), and these were promulgated by Giorgio Biandrata and others into Poland and Transylvania.

Numbers were further augmented after 1550, following campaigns of persecution by the Venetian Inquisition against Italian anti-Trinitarians and Jews.

Originally published in Latin, the first Italian edition came out in 1546. and the standard Italian edition by Cosimo Bartoli was published in 1550.

The term was first used retrospectively by the Italian artist and critic Giorgio Vasari ( 1511 – 1574 ) in his book The Lives of the Artists ( published 1550 ).

* March 11 – Emilio de ' Cavalieri, Italian composer ( b. c. 1550 )

* February 19 – Orazio Vecchi, Italian composer ( b. 1550 )

* July 14 – Camillus de Lellis, Italian saint ( b. 1550 )

* Digital reproduction of the Italian edition of 1550

" 1550 Unabridged, original Italian.

The ideas of Socinianism date from the element of the Protestant Reformation known as the Radical Reformation, and have their root in the Italian Anabaptist movement of the 1540s, such as the Antitrinitarian Council of Venice in 1550.

The work was published in Italian with the title Della descrittione dell ’ Africa et delle cose notabili che iui sono, per Giovan Lioni Africano in 1550 by the Venetian publisher Giovanni Battista Ramusio.

The most renowned condottieri fought for foreign powers: Gian Giacomo Trivulzio abandoned Milan for France, while Andrea Doria was Admiral of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. In the end, failure was political, rather than military, stemming from disunity and political indecision, and, by 1550, the military service condotta had disappeared, while the term condottiere remained current, denominating the great Italian generals ( mainly ) fighting for foreign states ; men such as Gian Giacomo Medici, Ambrogio Spinola, Marcantonio II Colonna and Raimondo Montecuccoli were prominent into the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries.

Einstein also said, " Rore holds the key to the whole development of the Italian madrigal after 1550.

Orazio Vecchi ( December 6, 1550 ( baptized ), Modena – February 19, 1605 ) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance.

The De Prodigiis also achieved great popularity, and was translated into Italian ( 1543 ), English ( 1546 ) and Spanish ( 1550 ).

Italian exegete, philosopher, and physician ; born at Cesena about 1475 ; died at Bologna in 1550.

The Walker Art Gallery houses a collection including Italian and Netherlandish paintings from 1300 – 1550, European art from 1550 – 1900, including works by Rembrandt, Poussin and Degas, 18th and 19th-century British art, including a major collection of Victorian painting and many Pre-Raphaelite works, a wide collection of prints, drawings and watercolours, 20th-century works by artists such as Lucian Freud, David Hockney and Gilbert and George and a major sculpture collection.