By 1525 Henry was infatuated with his mistress Anne Boleyn and dissatisfied that his marriage to Catherine had produced no surviving sons, leaving their daughter, the future Mary I of England, as heiress presumptive at a time when there was no established precedent for a woman on the throne.

" The historian Jasper Ridley, author of several biographies including one on Henry VIII and another on Mary Tudor, goes much further in his dual biography of More and Cardinal Wolsey, The Statesman and the Fanatic, describing More as " a particularly nasty sadomasochistic pervert ," a line of thinking followed by the late Joanna Denny in her 2004 biography of Anne Boleyn.

* July 19 – Mary Boleyn, mistress of Kings Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England ( b. 1500 )

Anne's sister Mary Boleyn

Author Gareth Russell wrote a summary of the evidence and relates that Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria, wrote her memoirs shortly before her death in 1612 ; in it the former lady in waiting and confident to Queen Mary I of England wrote of Anne Boleyn " She was convicted and condemned and was not yet twenty-nine years of age.

Mary Boleyn, Anne Boleyn's older sister, had earlier been recalled from France in late 1519, ostensibly for her affairs with the French king and his courtiers.

She married William Carey, a minor noble, in February 1520, at Greenwich, with Henry VIII in attendance: soon after, Mary Boleyn became the English King's mistress.

He is currently enjoying a discreet affair with Mary Boleyn, a daughter of Sir Thomas Boleyn who is one of his courtiers ; but the King is bored with her too.

* Valerie Gearon as Mary Boleyn

His maternal great-grandmother Mary Boleyn was a sister of Anne Boleyn, mother of Queen Elizabeth I, making him a first-cousin-twice-removed of the Queen.

Carey's brother William was the husband of Mary Boleyn, Anne Boleyn's elder sister.

* Anne Shelton ( courtier ), aunt of Anne Boleyn and mother of Henry VIII's mistress, Mary Shelton ; wife of the above

* Mary Boleyn ( c. 1499 – 19 July 1543 ); Lady Mary Carey ( 1520 – 1528 ); Lady Stafford ( 1534 – 1543 )

His eldest daughter Queen Mary lived there between 1533 and 1536, when she was sent to wait on the then Princess Elizabeth, as punishment for refusing to recognise Henry's marriage to Anne Boleyn and his religious reforms.

* Mary Stafford, née Mary Boleyn, sister of Anne Boleyn and mistress of Henry VIII, to whom she is alleged to have borne two children

It is presumed that their first two children Mary and George were born at Blickling Hall, along with several other Boleyn infants who did not live long.

Henry realised with the passing years that the ageing Catherine was unlikely to produce a son and heir, and he was having notorious affairs with sisters Mary Boleyn and Anne Boleyn.

Michelangelo's Pietà ( Michelangelo ) | Pietà, a depiction of the body of Jesus on the lap of his mother Saint Mary | Mary after the Crucifixion, was carved in 1499, when the sculptor was 24 years old.

Most historians now agree that Mary was born in 1499.

He was present with his elder siblings, Margaret, Henry and Mary when Erasmus and Thomas More visited their royal nursery in the summer of 1499, when Edmund was months old.

* Mary Hunter Austin ( 1868 – 1934 ), American writer

* 1927 – Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

* 1662 – Mary II of England ( d. 1694 )

* 1907 – Mary Hamman, American writer ( d. 1984 )

* 1837 – Mary Harris Jones, American labor organizer ( d. 1930 )

* 1942 – Jerry Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Grateful Dead, Legion of Mary, Reconstruction, Old and in the Way, and New Riders of the Purple Sage ) ( d. 1995 )

* 1954 – Mary Jo Salter, American poet

* 1876 – Mary Roberts Rinehart, American author ( d. 1958 )

* 1561 – An 18-year-old Mary, Queen of Scots, returns to Scotland after spending 13 years in France.

* 1953 – Mary Matalin, American political consultant

* 1971 – Mary Joe Fernández, Dominican-American tennis player

* 1879 – The Virgin Mary, along with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist, reportedly appears at Knock Shrine in Knock, County Mayo, Ireland.

* 1905 – Mary Faustina Kowalska, Polish nun, mystic, and saint ( d. 1938 )

Andrew Johnson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, to Jacob Johnson ( 1778 – 1812 ) and Mary (" Polly ") McDonough ( 1783 – 1856 ), a seamstress and the daughter of Andrew McDonough.

* 1888 – Mary Ann Nichols is murdered.

* 1969 – Mary McCartney, English photographer

* 1797 – Mary Shelley, English author ( d. 1851 )

* 1968 – Mary Birdsong, American actress

* 1985 – Mary Elise Hayden, American actress

* 1918 – Mary Healy, American actress

* 1578 – James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, consort of Mary, Queen of Scots

* 1467 – Mary of York ( d. 1482 )

* 1946 – Mary Jo Slater, American casting director and producer

* 1689 – William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain.