In 1496 he executed the Prodigal Son, which the Italian Renaissance art historian Giorgio Vasari singled out for praise some decades later, noting its Germanic quality.

* 1689 – Pietro Gnocchi, Italian composer, choir director, historian, and geographer ( d. 1775 )

Anarchist historian George Woodcock reports the incident in which the important Italian social anarchist Errico Malatesta became involved " in a dispute with the individualist anarchists of Paterson, who insisted that anarchism implied no organization at all, and that every man must act solely on his impulses.

* 1667 – Pietro Sforza Pallavicino, Italian cardinal and historian ( b. 1607 )

* 1511 – Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter, writer, historian, and architect ( d. 1574 )

* 1469 – Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and author ( d. 1527 )

* 1540 – Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian ( b. 1483 )

* 1772 – Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian ( b. 1687 )

* 1483 – Francesco Guicciardini, Italian statesman and historian ( d. 1540 )

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (, 3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527 ) was an Italian historian, diplomat, philosopher, humanist and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance.

At that time the Italian historian Alessandro Portelli and his associates began to study the role that memory itself, whether accurate or faulty, plays in the themes and structures of oral history.

The 16th-century Italian historian Onofrio Panvinio, commenting on one of Bartolomeo Platina's works that refer to Pope Joan, theorized that the story of Pope Joan may have originated from tales of Pope John XII ; John reportedly had many mistresses, including one called Joan, who was very influential in Rome during his pontificate.

* September 7 – Guido Bentivoglio, Italian statesman and historian ( b. 1579 )

** Giovanni Baglione, Italian painter and historian of art ( d. 1643 )

* September 7 – Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian ( d. 1772 )

* July – Girolamo Mei, Italian historian and humanist ( b. 1519 )

* May 3 – Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and political author ( d. 1527 )

* January 11 – Scipione Ammirato, Italian historian ( b. 1531 )

* June 30 – Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and historian ( b. 1538 )

* May 22 – Francesco Guicciardini, Italian statesman and historian ( b. 1483 )

* December 30 – Giovanni Baglione, Italian painter and historian of art ( b. 1566 )

* October 10 – Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian ( b. 1714 )

* January 23 – Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Italian historian and scholar ( b. 1672 )

* May 22 – Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian ( b. 1687 )

Andrea Palladio, an Italian architect of the sixteenth century, modeled his designs on its Doric and Ionic columns.

* 1925 – Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, Italian cardinal

* 1972 – Andrea de Rossi, Italian rugby player and coach

Andrea Andreani ( 1540 – 1623 ) was an Italian engraver on wood, who was among the first printmakers in Italy to use chiaroscuro, which required multiple colours.

Andrea Alciato ( May 8, 1492 – January 12, 1550 ), commonly known as Alciati ( Andreas Alciatus ), was an Italian jurist and writer.

* 1983 – Andrea Marcato, Italian rugby player

Andrea Palladio, the famous Italian architect of the 16th century, built many mansions with plain exteriors and stunning interiors filled with frescoes.

Giovanni d ' Andrea or Johannes Andreæ, ( c. 1270 / 1275 – 1348 ) was an Italian expert in canon law, the most renowned and successful canonist of the later Middle Ages.

* 1956 – 45 miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collides with the MS Stockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51.

* 1984 – Andrea Raggi, Italian footballer

* 1486 – Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter ( d. 1530 )

* 1973 – Andrea Scanavacca, Italian rugby player

Anarchist communism as a coherent, modern economic-political philosophy was first formulated in the Italian section of the First International by Carlo Cafiero, Emilio Covelli, Errico Malatesta, Andrea Costa and other ex-Mazzinian Republicans.

* 1981 – Andrea Barzagli, Italian footballer

* 1976 – Andrea Lo Cicero, Italian rugby player

* 1988 – Andrea Catellani, Italian footballer

* 1964 – Andrea Montermini, Italian race car driver

* 1741 – Andrea Luchesi, Italian composer ( d. 1801 )

* 1979 – Andrea Benatti, Italian rugby player

* 1817 – Andrea Appiani, Italian painter ( b. 1754 )

* 1985 – Andrea Bargnani, Italian basketball player

* 1981 – Andrea Dossena, Italian footballer

* 1970 – Andrea Mantegna, Italian painter

* Andrea of Grosseto, Italian writer