* 1573 – Anne of Austria, Queen of Poland ( d. 1598 )

* 1573 – Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria ( d. 1651 )

Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder ( 18 January 1573 – 1621 ) was a still life painter of the Dutch Golden Age.

Albert Frederick was married in 1573 to Marie Eleonore of Cleves, a daughter of Wilhelm, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg and Archduchess Maria of Austria ( 1531 – 1581 ).

* Laurent Bénard ( 1573 – 1620 )

* 4 Kings and Queen of Poland ( 1370 – 1399, 1573 – 1574, 1697 )

** Henry ( 1573 – 1574 )

* 1521 – Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord ( d. 1573 )

* 1573 – Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian writer ( b. 1504 )

Sir Francis Walsingham, Secretary of State ( England ) | Principal Secretary 1573 – 1590.

* Hedwig Jagiellon ( 1513 – 1573 ), daughter of Sigismund I the Old of Poland and his first wife the Hungarian Countess Barbara Zápolya.

* 1573 – Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland.

* 1535 – Joan of Austria, Princess of Portugal ( d. 1573 )

* 1573 – Battle of Mikatagahara, in Japan ; Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu.

* 1642 – Marie de ' Medici, French wife of Henry IV of France ( b. 1573 )

* 1573 – Córdoba, Argentina, is founded by Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera.

* 1573 – Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect, designed the Church of the Gesu and Villa Farnese ( b. 1507 )

* 1573 – Eighty Years ' War: the Siege of Haarlem ends after seven months.

* 1573 – Simon Marius, German astronomer ( d. 1624 )

* 1645 – William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury ( b. 1573 )

* 1573 – Inigo Jones, English architect, designed the Queen's House ( d. 1652 )

During the Muromachi age ( 1392 – 1573 AD ), the Kosode, a single kimono formerly considered underwear, began to be worn without the hakama ( trousers, divided skirt ) over it, and thus began to be held closed by an obi " belt ".

* 1573 – The Battle of Haarlemmermeer, a naval engagement in the Dutch War of Independence.

* Elias Holl ( 1573 – 1646 ), German architect

At Augsburg in 1573, a German military engineer by the name of Samuel Zimmermann invented an extremely effective mine known as the fladdermine.

* December 26 – Simon Marius, German astronomer ( b. 1573 )

* June 18 – Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer ( b. 1573 or 1575 )

Simon Marius ( Latinized from German Simon Mayr ) ( January 10, 1573 – December 26, 1624 ) was a German astronomer.

Johannes Junius ( 1573 – August 6, 1628 ) was the mayor ( German: Bürgermeister ) of Bamberg, and a victim of the Bamberg witch trials, who wrote a letter to his daughter from jail while he awaited execution for witchcraft.

* July 18-Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer ( born 1573 )

* December 26-Simon Marius, German astronomer ( born 1573 )

* Simon Marius ( 1573 – 1624 ), German astronomer

The Genevan Psalms were translated into German by Ambrosius Lobwasser ( 1515 – 1585 ) in 1573 " Psalter des königlichen Propheten Davids " and were sung a capella to Goudimel's harmonies for over two centuries.

* Simon Marius ( 1573 – 1624 ), German astronomer

* 1573 – William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury ( d. 1645 )

* 1510 – John Caius, English physician ( d. 1573 )

* 1573 – Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater ( d. 1624 )

** Shimazu Katsuhisa, Japanese nobleman ( d. 1573 )

** Tomé de Sousa, Portuguese nobleman, first general-governor of Brazil ( d. 1573 or 1579 )

* December 1 – Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord ( d. 1573 )

** Paul Skalić, Croatian encyclopedist, humanist and adventurer ( d. 1573 )

** Takeda Nobutora, Japanese warlord ( d. 1573 )

** Saitō Tatsuoki, Japanese daimyo ( d. 1573 )

** Étienne Jodelle, French dramatist and poet ( d. 1573 )

** Azai Hisamasa, Japanese warlord ( d. 1573 )

** John Caius, English physician ( d. 1573 )

* November – Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian novelist and poet ( d. 1573 )

** Murakami Yoshikiyo, Japanese nobleman ( d. 1573 )

A visit to the villa of Cardinal Luigi d ' Este in 1573 convinced Pope Gregory XIII to start the building of a summer residence the following year, in an area considered healthier than the Vatican Hill or Lateran: His architects were Flaminio Ponzio and Ottaviano Nonni, called Mascherino ; under Pope Sixtus V, works were continued by Domenico Fontana ( the main facade on the Piazza ) and Carlo Maderno, and by Gian Lorenzo Bernini for Pope Clement XII.

** Laurentius Petri, Archbishop of Uppsala ( d. 1573 )

** Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, Spanish philosopher and theologian ( d. 1573 )

Gabrielle d ' Estrées, Duchess of Beaufort and Verneuil, Marchioness of Monceaux (; 1573 – 10 April 1599 ) was a French mistress of King Henry IV of France, born at either the Château de la Bourdaisière in Montlouis-sur-Loire, in Touraine, or at the château de Cœuvres, in Picardy.