Mainly Galileo Galilei ( 1564 – 1642 ) but also Marin Mersenne ( 1588 – 1648 ), independently, discovered the complete laws of vibrating strings ( completing what Pythagoras and Pythagoreans had started 2000 years earlier ).

* 1564 – Playwright William Shakespeare was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England ( date of actual birth is unknown ).

* Alexandru Lăpuşneanu, Voivode of Moldavia ( 1552 – 1561 and 1564 – 1568 )

They were considered a Catholic innovation, not widely practiced until the 18th century, and were opposed vigorously in worship by a number of Protestant Reformers, including Martin Luther ( 1483 – 1546 ), John Calvin ( 1509 – 1564 ) and John Wesley ( 1703 – 1791 ).

Bernardino Ochino ( 1487, Siena, Republic of Siena – 1564, Austerlitz, Habsburg Moravia ) was an Italian Reformer.

This idea was already rejected as untenable by John Calvin ( 1509 – 1564 ), and by the time of Thomas Hobbes ( 1588 – 1679 ) it was recognised that the book must have been written much later than the period it depicted.

In 1543 De humani corporis fabrica, the first book on human anatomy, was published and printed in Basel by Andreas Vesalius ( 1514 – 1564 ).

* 1500 – Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist ( d. 1564 )

* 1564 – Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist ( d. 1642 )

* 1564 – Christopher Marlowe, English dramatist ( d. 1593 )

* Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor ( 1503 – 1564 )

A Shakespeare Companion 1564 – 1964.

Shakespeare Companion, 1564 – 1964.

Galileo Galilei ( 1564 – 1642 )

The Italian mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Galileo Galilei ( 1564 – 1642 ) was the central figure in the Scientific Revolution and famous for his support for Copernianism, his astronomical discoveries, and his improvement of the telescope.

* Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi (~ 1564 – 1624 ) was part of " a reassertion of orthodoxy within Sufism " and was known to his followers as the ' renovator of the second millennium '.

* 1564 – The Council of Trent issues its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.

* 1564 – The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Tsardom of Russia in the Battle of Ula during the Livonian War.

* 1509 – John Calvin, French theologian and pastor ( d. 1564 )

Kanem-Bornu peaked during the reign of the outstanding statesman Mai Idris Aluma ( c. 1564 – 1596 ).

However, when John Knox returned to Scotland in 1559, he continued to use the Form of Prayer he had created for the English exiles in Geneva, and in 1564, this supplanted the Book of Common Prayer under the title of the Book of Common Order.

Pius IV sent the decrees to Mary, Queen of Scots, with a letter dated June 13, 1564, requesting her to publish them in Scotland, but she dared not do it in the face of John Knox and the Reformation.

He was noted for his literary and theatrical patronage, and between 1564 and 1599 some 33 works included dedications to him by authors including Arthur Golding, John Lyly, Robert Greene and Anthony Munday.

John Calvin (, born: 10 July 150927 May 1564 ) was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation.

* July 10 – John Calvin, French religious reformer ( d. 1564 )

It is evident that the first Rosicrucian manifesto was influenced by the work of the respected hermetic philosopher Heinrich Khunrath, of Hamburg, author of the Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae ( 1609 ), who was in turn influenced by John Dee, author of the Monas Hieroglyphica ( 1564 ).

Boyle was born at Canterbury 3 October 1566, the second son of Roger Boyle ( d. 24 March 1576 at Preston, near Faversham in Kent ), a descendant of an ancient landed Herefordshire family, and of Joan ( born 15 October 1529 at Canterbury-died 20 March 1586 ), daughter of John Naylor, who were married in Canterbury on 16 October 1564.

John Shakespeare's large half-timbered dwelling, purchased by him in 1556, was in 1564 the birthplace of his son William.

In 1564 he fell temporarily into the royal disfavour and was dismissed from court, because Elizabeth suspected he was concerned in the publication of a pamphlet, A Declaration of the Succession of the Crowne Imperial of Ingland, by John Hales, which favoured the claim of Lady Catherine Grey ( sister of Lady Jane Grey ) to the English throne.

* John Horsey ( died 1564 ) ( 1510-1564 / 65 ), knight of Henry VIII, son of above

* John Holles, 1st Earl of Clare ( 1564 – 1637 ) was comptroller of the household to Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales

Macau was later offered to John III as a reward for the Portuguese assistance against maritime piracy in the period between 1557 and 1564.

Similarly Christian III's youngest son John the Younger gained for himself and his heirs a share in Holstein's and Schleswig's revenues in 1564, comprising a third of the royal share, a ninth of Holstein and Schleswig from a fiscal point of view.

Similar to the above-mentioned agreement Christian III's youngest son John the Younger gained for him and his heirs a share in Holstein's and Schleswig's revenues in 1564, comprising a third of the royal share, thus a ninth of Holstein and Schleswig as to the fiscal point of view.

* John Calvin ( 1509 – 1564 ).

Founded officially on 24 June 1564 by the Spanish Diego de Quijada on the banks of the Grijalva River under the name of Villa Hermosa, in 1826 the village was raised to the rank of city under the name of San Juan Bautista de la Villa Hermosa ( Saint John the Baptist ).

Holles was the third son of John Holles, 1st Earl of Clare ( c. 1564 – 1637 ), by Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Stanhope.

** John Owen, writer of epigrams ( born 1564 )

Similar to the above-mentioned agreement Christian III's youngest son John the Younger gained for him and his heirs a share in Holstein's and Schleswig's revenues in 1564, seated in Sønderborg, comprising a third of the royal share, thus a ninth of Holstein and Schleswig in fiscal respect.

Arthur Golding was born in East Anglia, before 25 May 1535 / 36, the second son of John Golding of Belchamp St Paul and Halstead, Essex, an auditor of the Exchequer, and his second wife, Ursula ( d. c. 1564 ), in a family of eleven children ( four from John Golding's first wife, Elizabeth ).

Calvin died on 27 May 1564 aged 54.

Calvin and Beza arranged to perform their duties jointly in alternate weeks, but the death of Calvin occurred soon afterward ( May 27, 1564 ).

John Calvin ( 1509 – 1564 ),