Year 1561 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events of 1561
Undated
Literature
Births
- January 6 - Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist (d. 1656)
- January 22 - Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher, scientist, and statesman (d. 1626)
- July 11 - Luís de Góngora y Argote, Spanish poet (d. 1627)
- July 17 - Jacopo Corsi, Italian composer (d. 1602)
- August 20 - Jacopo Peri, Italian composer (d. 1633)
- August 24 - Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk (d. 1626)
- August 25 - Philippe van Lansberge, Dutch astronomer (d. 1632)
- September 10 - Hernando Arias de Saavedra, Spanish colonial governor (d. 1634)
- September 29 - Adriaan van Roomen, Belgian mathematician (d. 1615)
- October 27 - Mary Sidney, English writer, patroness and translator (d. 1621)
- December 7 - Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese politician (d. 1625)
- December 9 - Edwin Sandys, English founder of the colony of Virginia (d. 1629)
- date unknown
- See also Category: 1561 births.
Deaths
- See also Category: 1561 deaths.
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