* 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.

* 1571 – Michael Praetorius, German composer ( d. 1621 )

File: Johannes Kepler 1610. jpg | Johannes Kepler ( 1571 – 1630 )

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.

Smith saw English merchant Thomas Mun ( 1571 – 1641 ) as a major creator of the mercantile system, especially in his posthumously published Treasure by Foreign Trade ( 1664 ), which Smith considered the archetype or manifesto of the movement.

In 1571, the Protestant-turned-Catholic Thomas Howard, the fourth Duke of Norfolk, had plans to marry Mary, Queen of Scots, and then replace Elizabeth with Mary.

** Thomas Storer, English poet ( b. 1571 )

** Thomas Wintour, English conspirator ( executed ) ( b. 1571 )

In England Frisius's method was included in the growing number of books on surveying which appeared from the middle of the century onwards, including William Cunningham's Cosmographical Glasse ( 1559 ), Valentine Leigh's Treatise of Measuring All Kinds of Lands ( 1562 ), William Bourne's Rules of Navigation ( 1571 ), Thomas Digges's Geometrical Practise named Pantometria ( 1571 ), and John Norden's Surveyor's Dialogue ( 1607 ).

Writings by John Dee and Thomas Digges in England in 1570 and 1571, respectively ascribe the use of both reflecting and refracting telescopes to Thomas ' father Leonard Digges, and it is independently confirmed by a report by William Bourne in approximately 1580.

" In 1571, Elizabeth, a great believer in colonization, granted her Secretary-of-State Sir Thomas Smith a huge 360, 000 acres of East Ulster to plant English settlers in an effort to seize control of the Clandeboye O ’ Neill territory and control the native Irish.

Through the patronage of Archbishop Matthew Parker, Stow was able to print the Flores historiarum of Matthew of Westminster in 1567, the Chronicle of Matthew Paris in 1571, and the Historia brevis of Thomas Walsingham in 1574.

* Thomas Stanley ( 16th century MP ) ( 1530-1591 ), Sheriff and MP for Lancashire ( UK Parliament constituency ), 1571

* Thomas Stanley ( died 1571 ), MP for Liverpool ( UK Parliament constituency ) and Bossiney

* Thomas Stanley ( Royal Mint ) ( died 1571 ), English officer of the Mint

* 1560 – 1571 Sir Thomas Stanley

Francis Leigh, 1st Earl of Chichester, was the grandson of Sir William Leigh, third son of Sir Thomas Leigh ( c. 1504 – 1571 ), Lord Mayor of London in 1558.

* Thomas Plunkett, 2nd Baron Louth ( c. 1547 – 1571 )

The latter was the second son of Sir Thomas Leigh ( d. 1571 ), Lord Mayor of London in 1558, whose third son Sir William Leigh was the grandfather of Francis Leigh, 1st Earl of Chichester.

He was a descendant of Rowland Leigh, eldest son of the aforementioned Sir Thomas Leigh ( d. 1571 ), himself of a cadet branch of the Leighs of West Hall, High Legh.

* Thomas Holte ( 1571 – 1654 ), English landowner

The earliest evidence of exploration of the caves in historic times are the inscriptions " William Petre 1571 " and " Robert Hedges 1688 " engraved on stalagmites, and the first recorded excavation was that of Thomas Northmore in 1824.

By his wife Elizabeth, Thomas Hoby had two sons, Edward and Thomas Posthumus ( both subsequently knighted ), and two daughters, Elizabeth and Anne, who died within a few days of each other in February 1571.