| 1165 August 22 | Birth | Philip II "Augustus" | King of France. |
| 1187 September 5 | Birth | Louis VII | King of France |
| 1189 June 20 | Birth | John "Lackland" Plantagenet | Future King of England. |
| 1195 August 15 | Birth | Saint Anthony of Padua | |
| 1207 October 1 | Birth | Henry III | King of England (1216-72) |
| 1207 September 30 | Birth | Rumi | |
| 1227 September 30 | Birth | Pope Nicholas IV | |
| 1239 June 17 | Birth | Edward I (Longshanks) | King of England |
| 1245 April 3 | Birth | Phillip III, The Bold | of France (1270-85) |
| 1271 November 5 | Birth | Mahmud Ghazen | Mongol Il-Kan of Iran. |
| 1271 September 17 | Birth | Wenceslas II | King of Bohemia and Poland (1278-1305) |
| 1284 April 25 | Birth | Edward II King of England | and the first to be styled Prince of Wales. |
| 1289 October 4 | Birth | Louis X "The Stubborn" | King of France (1314-16) |
| 1304 July 20 | Birth | Petrarch | |
| 1314 May 13 | Birth | St Sergius of Radonesh | Russian Saint. |
| 1319 April 16 | Birth | King John II "the Good" | King of France. |
| 1338 January 21 | Birth | Charles V (the Wise) | King of France. |
| 1340 October 25 | Birth | Geoffrey Chaucer | Author |
| 1345 October 31 | Birth | Ferdinand I | King of Portugal. |
| 1364 May 20 | Birth | Henry Percy | "Harry Hotspur" British Politician and Soldier. |
| 1367 April 3 | Birth | Henry Bolingbroke | (Henry IV of England)in Lincolnshire |
| 1370 April 11 | Birth | Frederick I "The Warlike" | Elector of Saxony. |
| 1387 September 16 | Birth | Henry V | King of England |
| 1422 August 13 | Birth | William Caxton | Printer |
| 1423 July 3 | Birth | Louis XI | King of France. |
| 1430 October 16 | Birth | James II | King of Scotland. |
| 1442 April 20 | Birth | Edward IV | King of England 1461-83 |
| 1442 October 31 | Birth | Wladislaus III | King of Portugal. |
| 1444 May 17 | Birth | Allesandro Di Botticelli | Italian Painter. |
| 1451 July 10 | Birth | King James III | of Scotland |
| 1451 October 30 | Birth | Christopher Columbus | Explorer |
| 1452 April 15 | Birth | Leonardo da Vinci | |
| 1452 April 26 | Birth | Leonardo da Vinci | Painter and Sculptor. |
| 1452 October 2 | Birth | King Richard III | of England. |
| 1462 June 27 | Birth | Louis XII | King of France |
| 1463 October 29 | Birth | Alessandro Achillini | Philosopher and Physician. |
| 1466 October 28 | Birth | Erasmus | Scholar. This could also be 26th October and could also be in 1467 ..... |
| 1469 May 4 | Birth | Machiavelli | |
| 1476 June 28 | Birth | Pope Paul IV | |
| 1478 July 22 | Birth | King Phillip I "The Handsome" | of Spain. |
| 1478 May 26 | Birth | Pope Clement VII | Giulio de' Medici (1523-34) |
| 1479 November 6 | Birth | Joanna "The Mad" | Queen of Castile |
| 1480 April 18 | Birth | Lucretia Borgia | daughter of Pope Alexander VI |
| 1487 July 17 | Birth | Esma'il the First | Shah |
| 1487 September 10 | Birth | Pope Julius III | |
| 1489 July 2 | Birth | Thomas Cranmer | Archbishop of Canterbury. |
| 1491 June 28 | Birth | Henry VIII | Later King of England. |
| 1491 March 9 | Birth | Amerigo Vespucci | in Florence, Italy. His name was used by a German Map Maker in 1507 to name the new world continent discovered as America. |
| 1492 April 11 | Birth | Marguerite d'Angouleme | Queen of Navarre. |
| 1494 September 12 | Birth | Francis I | King of France |
| 1500 November 1 | Birth | Benevenuto Cellini | |
| 1502 June 7 | Birth | Gregory XIII, Pope | He introduced his new calendar in 1582. |
| 1502 June 7 | Birth | Pope Gregory XIII | Gregorian Calendar. |
| 1503 December 14 | Birth | Michel de Notredame (Nostradamus) | The famous prophet and seer was born today. |
| 1504 August 6 | Birth | Matthew Parker | Archbishop of Canterbury. |
| 1506 July 1 | Birth | King Louis II | of Hungary and Bohemia |
| 1509 July 10 | Birth | John Calvin | Theologian. |
| 1510 October 10 | Birth | Saint Francis Borgia. | |
| 1512 April 10 | Birth | King James I | of Scotland. |
| 1519 July 20 | Birth | Pope Innocent IX | |
| 1519 June 12 | Birth | Cosmo de Medici | Italian Arts Patron |
| 1521 May 8 | Birth | St. Peter Canisius | |
| 1527 July 31 | Birth | Maximillian II | Holy Roman Emperor. |
| 1533 September 7 | Birth | Queen Elizabeth I of England | Daughter of Henry VIII. |
| 1534 July 1 | Birth | Fredrick II | King of Denmark and Norway. |
| 1540 August 5 | Birth | Joseph Scaliger | proposed adoption of the Julian dating system. |
| 1542 June 24 | Birth | Saint John of the Cross. | |
| 1543 October 15 | Birth | Akbar | Indian MOghul Emperor. |
| 1543 October 7 | Birth | Hans Holbein | Painter. |
| 1544 March 11 | Birth | Torquato Tasso | Renaissance poet (Aminta, Apologia) |
| 1545 July 8 | Birth | Don Carlos "The Mad" | of Spain |
| 1546 December 14 | Birth | Tycho Brahe | Danish astronomer and mathematician. Along with Kepler proved that the planets orbit the Sun in elliptical orbits. |
| 1550 June 27 | Birth | Charles IX | King of France |
| 1550 October 4 | Birth | Charles IX | King of Sweden. |
| 1551 September 19 | Birth | Henry III of France. | King |
| 1552 July 18 | Birth | Rudolf II | Holy Roman Emporer |
| 1553 December 14 | Birth | Henry IV of France | (Of Navarre) was born today. |
| 1558 November 6 | Birth | Thomas Kyd | Dramatist. |
| 1559 July 22 | Birth | Saint Lawrence of Brindisi | |
| 1564 April 24 | Birth | William Shakespeare | Bard. |
| 1566 June 19 | Birth | James VI and I | King of Scotland and England |
| 1566 May 26 | Birth | Mohammed III | Sultan of Turkey (1595-1603) |
| 1567 August 22 | Birth | Saint Francis de Sales | patron Saint of Writers. |
| 1572 June 11 | Birth | Ben Johnson | English Playwrite and poet. |
| 1572 June 11 | Birth | Ben Johnson | Poet. |
| 1573 July 15 | Birth | Inigo Jones | English Architect |
| 1575 July 25 | Birth | Christoph Scheiner | Astronomer. |
| 1576 April 24 | Birth | St. Vincent de Paul | |
| 1577 June 28 | Birth | Peter Paul Rubens | Artist |
| 1578 April 14 | Birth | Phillip III | King of Spain and Portugal (1598-1621) |
| 1578 August 1 | Birth | Juliet | of Romeo and Juliet fame! |
| 1581 October 21 | Birth | Zampieri Domenichino | Italian Artist. |
| 1583 April 10 | Birth | Hugo Grotius | Holland, Jurist, Father of International law. |
| 1585 October 28 | Birth | Cornelius Otto Jansen | Roman Catholic reform leader in France. |
| 1588 April 5 | Birth | Thomas Hobbes | English Philosopher |
| 1588 April 6 | Birth | Thomas Hobbes | English Philosopher |
| 1592 August 28 | Birth | George Villiers | Duke of Buckingham. |
| 1593 August 9 | Birth | Issac Walton | Fisherman! |
| 1594 November 26 | Birth | John Harvard | Founder of Harvard college. |
| 1596 September 3 | Birth | Nicolo Amity | Violin Maker |
| 1596 September 4 | Birth | Constantin Huygens | Diplomat and musician. |
| 1599 April 25 | Birth | Oliver Cromwell | Lord Protector of England. |
