* 1637 – Niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord ( b. 1571 )

* 1571 – Thomas Lupo, English composer and viol player ( d. 1627 )

One of the first great autobiographies of the Renaissance is that of the sculptor and goldsmith Benvenuto Cellini ( 1500 – 1571 ), written between 1556 and 1558, and entitled by him simply Vita ( Italian: Life ).

Kanem-Bornu peaked during the reign of the outstanding statesman Mai Idris Aluma ( c. 1571 – 1603 ).

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610 ) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily between 1593 and 1610.

A pre-Mercator nautical chart of 1571, from Portuguese cartographer Fernão Vaz Dourado ( c. 1520 – c.

* 1571 – Johannes Kepler, German astronomer ( d. 1630 )

* 1571 – Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer ( d. 1635 )

Shimazu Takahisa ( 1514 – 1571 ), daimyo of Satsuma, gave a friendly reception to Francis on 29 September 1549, but in the following year he forbade the conversion of his subjects to Christianity under penalty of death ; Christians in Kagoshima could not be given any catechism in the following years.

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Henry Ainsworth ( 1571 – 1622 ) was an English Nonconformist clergyman and scholar.

Copernicus's new perspective-along with the accurate observations of Tycho Brahe-was used by German astronomer Johannes Kepler ( 1571 – 1630 ) to formulate laws regarding planetary motions that are still accepted today.

* 1535 – 1571: John the Wise, Margrave of Brandenburg-Küstrin ( son of Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg )

* 1568 – 1571: Joachim I / II Hector co-inheritor ( also Elector of Brandenburg )

Johannes Kepler (; December 27, 1571 – November 15, 1630 ) was a German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer.

* 1606 – Thomas Wintour – Gunpowder Plot conspirators ( b. 1571 )

* 1517 – Odet de Coligny, French cardinal ( d. 1571 )

* 1571 – Miguel Lopez de Legazpi founds Manila, the capital of the Republic of the Philippines.

* 1571 – Austrian nobility is granted freedom of religion.

* 1571 – John Story, English martyr ( b. 1504 )

* 1511 – Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg ( d. 1571 )

* 1571 – The Royal Exchange opens in London.

* 1571 – La Laguna encomienda, known today as the Laguna province in the Philippines was founded by the Spaniards as one of the oldest encomienda / province in the country.

In the list of more important bulls issued by him the famous bull " In Coena Domini " ( 1568 ) takes a leading place ; but amongst others throwing light on Pope Pius V's character and policy there may be mentioned his prohibition of quaestuary ( February 1567 and January 1570 ); the condemnation of Michael Baius, the heretical Professor of Leuven ( 1567 ); the reform of the breviary ( July 1568 ); the denunciation of the " dirum nefas " ( August 1568 ); the banishment of the Jews from the ecclesiastical dominions except Rome and Ancona ( 1569 ); the injunction of the use of the reformed missal ( July 1570 ); the confirmation of the privileges of the Society of Crusaders for the protection of the Inquisition ( October 1570 ); the dogmatic certainty of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary ( November 1570 ); the suppression of the Fratres Humiliati for profligacy ( February 1571 ); the approbation of the new office of the Blessed Virgin ( March 1571 ); the enforcement of the daily recitation of the Canonical Hours ( September 1571 ); and the purchase of assistance against the Turks by offers of plenary pardon ( March 1572 ).

* February 15 – Michael Praetorius, German composer ( b. 1571 )

* Michael Praetorius ( 1571 – 1621 ) was Kapellmeister at Wolfenbüttel from 1604.

The town of Warwick felt this during a magnificent visit by the Earl in 1571 to celebrate the feast of the Order of Saint Michael, with which Leicester had been invested by the French king in 1566.

The third son of Dr Richard Barnes, bishop of Durham, he was baptized in York at the church of St Michael le Belfry on 6 March 1571.

* Michael Gerzon: Practical periphony: The reproduction of full-sphere sound, AES Preprint 1571, London 1980

The Schlüsselfidel ( nyckelharpa ) is also mentioned in Theatrum Instrumentorum, a famous work written in 1620 by the German organist Michael Praetorius ( 1571 – 1621 ).

Michael Praetorius ( probably February 15, 1571 – February 15, 1621 ) was a German composer, organist, and music theorist.

Other important events in the development of the city occurred in 1571 during the reign of Prince Istvan Bathory and in 1600 under the reign of Michael the Brave.

* Michael Praetorius ( c. 1571 – 1621 ), composer, music theorist, and organist

Johannes Kepler was born on December 27, 1571, at the Free Imperial City of Weil der Stadt ( now part of the Stuttgart Region in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, 30 km west of Stuttgart's center ).

The term existed also in German, perhaps Wulland in Hans Heyst's book ( 1571 ) where Wulland is translated by Wallonia in English ( 1814 ).

* November 15 – Johannes Kepler, German astronomer ( b. 1571 )

* April 23 – Georg Fabricius, Protestant German poet ( d. 1571 )

Georg Fabricius ( April 23, 1516 – July 17, 1571 ), born Georg Goldschmidt, was a Protestant German poet, historian and archaeologist.

* Johannes Kepler ( 1571 – 1630 ), German astronomer, mathematician and astrologer.

The first Synod of 23 Dutch Reformed leaders was held in October 1571 in the German city of Emden.

* Georg Fabricius ( 1516 – 1571 ), German poet, historian and archaeologist

Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy ( Czech Karel Bonaventura Buquoy, full name in French Charles Bonaventure de Longueval comte de Bucquoy, German: Karl Bonaventura Graf von Buquoy ) ( Arras, 9 January 1571 – Nové Zámky, 10 July 1621 ) was a military commander who fought for the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years ' War.

Wolfgang Ratke ( also Ratchius or Wolfgang Ratich ) ( 18 October 1571 – 27 April 1635 ) was a German educational reformer.

Alexander was educated at the German and Roman College in Rome from June 1571 to December 1578.

He joined the German College in Rome on October 1, 1571.