* John Weever

John Weever ( 1631 ) also names Robert Langland, as does David Buchanan ( 1652 ).

John Weever says, “ Kelly ( otherwise called Talbot ) that famous English alchemist of our times, who flying out of his own country ( after he had lost both his ears at Lancaster ) was entertained with Rudolf the second, and last of that Christian name, Emperor of Germany .” Most accounts say that he first worked as an apothecary's apprentice.

* John Weever – The Mirror of Martyrs, or The Life and Death of Sir John Oldcastle

John Weever has been suggested as author of the first play ; the satirist Joseph Hall has been seen as an influence on — if not the author of — the other two, though recent statistical tests bring Hall's authorship into question.

In 1601 a narrative poem, The Mirror of Martyrs, by one John Weever, was published ; it praises Oldcastle has a " valiant captain and most godly martyr.

John Weever in 1631

He may be the son of the John Weever who in 1590 was one of thirteen followers of local landowner Thomas Langton put on trial for murder after a riot which took place at Lea Hall, Lancashire.

In his preface Weever calls it the " first trew Oldcastle ," perhaps on account of the fact that Shakespeare's character Falstaff first appeared as ' Sir John Oldcastle '.

* David Kathman, ‘ Weever, John ( 1575 / 6 – 1632 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004

* 1620 – St. John Sarkander, Moravian priest, died of injuries caused by torturing ( b. 1576 )

* 1576 – John Marston, English writer ( d. 1634 )

* John Carver ( 1576 ?- 1621 ), Leader and First Governor of the Plymouth Colony, in office 1620 – 1621

* March 17 – St. John Sarkander, Moravian priest ( injuries caused by torturing ) ( b. 1576 )

* June 25 – John Marston, English dramatist ( b. 1576 )

The Theatre was constructed in Shoreditch in 1576 by James Burbage with his brother-in-law John Brayne ( the owner of the unsuccessful Red Lion playhouse of 1567 ) and the Newington Butts playhouse was set up, probably by Jerome Savage, some time between 1575 and 1577.

Boyle was born at Canterbury 3 October 1566, the second son of Roger Boyle ( d. 24 March 1576 at Preston, near Faversham in Kent ), a descendant of an ancient landed Herefordshire family, and of Joan ( born 15 October 1529 at Canterbury-died 20 March 1586 ), daughter of John Naylor, who were married in Canterbury on 16 October 1564.

Leland's own manuscript notebooks were inherited by Cheke's son, Henry, and in 1576 they were borrowed and transcribed by John Stow, allowing their contents to begin to circulate in antiquarian circles.

During the 16th century the Inn began hiring full-time preachers to staff the Chapel — the first, John Cherke, was appointed in 1576.

The diary is written on the reverse of pages of a book of accounts of his brother-in law Ralf Hogge ’ s ironworks, kept by his brother John Henslowe for the period 1576 – 1581.

Others included Camillo Renato ( 1540 ) Mátyás Dévai Bíró ( 1500 – 1545 ) Michael Servetus ( 1511 – 1553 ) Laelio Sozzini ( 1562 ) Fausto Sozzini ( 1563 ) the Polish Brethren ( 1565 onwards ) Dirk Philips ( 1504 – 1568 ) Gregory Paul of Brzezin ( 1568 ) the Socinians ( 1570 – 1800 ) John Frith ( 1573 ) George Schomann ( 1574 ) Simon Budny ( 1576 )

In the Treaty of Speyer of August 16, 1570, John II Sigismund acknowledged his rival, Maximilian I ( 1564 – 1576 ) as the lawful king of Hungary and adopted the title of " prince of Transylvania and parts of the Kingdom of Hungary ".

He probably already had appeared on the stage as an actor when he was bound apprenticed in 1576 for eight years to the stationer John Allde, an apprenticeship from which he was soon released.

In 1576 John decided to, or was made to, withdraw from public life in Stratford.

The oldest of these is Paisley Grammar which was founded in 1576 and was one of two former grammar schools in the town – alongside the former John Neilson Institution ( latterly John Neilson High School ) founded in 1852.

Other possibilities include a George Wishart, Baillie of Dundee, who allied himself with Beaton's murderers ; and Sir John Wishart ( d. 1576 ), afterwards a Scottish judge.

The presence of a Roman cemetery here was noticed by the antiquarian John Stow as far back as 1576 and became the focus of a major archaeological excavation in the 1990s, following the redevelopment of Spitalfields Market.

John Carver ( c. 1576 – April 1621 ) was a wealthy London merchant and early American colonist.

The Theatre was constructed in 1576 by James Burbage in partnership with his brother-in-law John Brayne ( the owner of the Red Lion ) on property that had originally been the grounds of the dissolved Halliwell Priory ( or Holywell ).

It afterwards came to John Wilson, and was granted in 1576 – 77 to Richard Master.

* John Paulet, 2nd Marquess of Winchester ( c. 1517 – 1576 )

* Jane FitzAlan ( d. 1576 / 7 ), who married John Lumley, 1st Baron Lumley

* John Gordon, 13th Earl of Sutherland ( 1576 – 1615 )

* John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie ( 1576 – 1600 )

* John Austin ( legal philosopher ) ( 1790 – 1859 ), English jurist

* John Arnold Austin ( 1905 – 1941 ), American sailor

* John M. Pierce ( 1886 – 1958 ) was one of the founders of the Springfield Telescope Makers.

Historian John Huddleston estimates the death toll at ten percent of all Northern males 20 – 45 years old, and 30 percent of all Southern white males aged 18 – 40.

He was the fourth child of Ondrej Varchola ( Americanized as Andrew Warhola, Sr., 1889 – 1942 ) and Júlia ( née Zavacká, 1892 – 1972 ), whose first child was born in their homeland and died before their move to the U. S. Andy had two older brothers, Paul, born about 1923, and John, born about 1925.

* 1385 – John, Master of the Order of Aviz, is made king John I of Portugal.

* 1808 – John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America's first millionaire.

* 1849 – John William Waterhouse, British painter ( d. 1917 )

* 1871 – Prince Alexander John of Wales ( d. 1871 )

* 1947 – John Ratzenberger, American actor

* 1960 – John Pizzarelli, American jazz guitarist, songwriter, singer and bandleader

* 1792 – John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, English statesman ( d. 1840 )

* 1940 – John Hagee, American pastor and televangelist

* 1944 – John Kay, German-Canadian singer-songwriter and musician ( The Sparrows and Steppenwolf )

* 1865 – Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth.

* 1971 – John Boyne, Irish novelist

* 1981 – John O ' Shea, Irish footballer

* 1665 – John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician ( d. 1751 )

* 1724 – John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-American pastor, planter, and statesman ( d. 1781 )

* 1904 – John Hay Whitney, American businessman, publisher, and diplomat, founded J. H.

* 1947 – John Morrison, New Zealand cricketer

* 1948 – John Mehler, American drummer ( Love Song )