In the year 1539, Spain annexes Cuba (Jan 14), the Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay, Florida with the goal to find gold (May 30), the first printing press in North America is set up in Mexico City, the Protestant Reformation i.e. the movement against papal authority goes on - and all these fine people were born:

1539-xxxx Humphrey Gilbert* adventurer/explorer/pioneer of the English colonial empire in North America - Greenway, Brixham, England (1583/c.43)

1539-0128 Nicolò Donato* the 93rd Doge of Venice - Venice, Repubic of Venice (1618/79)

1539-0223 Salima Sultan Begum* Empress of the Mughal Empire as a wife of Emperor Akbar/poet - (1613/73)

1539-0305 Christoph Pezel* German theologian - Plauen, Holy Roman Empire (1604/64)

1539-0401
1539-0407 Tobias Stimmer* painter/illustrator - Schaffhausen, Switzerland (1584/44)
1539-0410
1539-0412 Inca Garcilaso de la Vega* (b Gómez Suárez de Figueroa) chronicler/writer/son of a Spanish conquistador and an Inca noblewoman - Cusco, New Castile, Viceroyalty of Peru (1616/77)
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1539-0430

1539-0522 Edward Seymour* 1st Earl of Hertford - England (1621/81)

1539-0606 Catherine Vasa of Sweden* Regent of East Frisia/daughter of Gustav Vasa (1610/71)
1539-0613 Jost Amman* Swiss-German artist/printmaker - Zürich, Switzerland (1591/51)

1539-0918 Louis Gonzaga* Italian-French dignitary/diplomat - Mantua, Duchy of Mantua, Holy Roman Empire (1595/56)

1539-1001 Peter Vok of Rosenberg* Czech nobleman - Český Krumlov (1611/72)
1539-1020
1539-1031

1539-1101 Pierre Pithou* lawyer/scholar - Troyes, France (1596/56)

1539-1220 Paulus Melissus* composer - Mellrichtstadt, Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire (1602/62)
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1539-1231 John Radcliffe* nobleman/ politician/MP - England (1568/28)

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