In the year 1546, Trinity College in Cambridge is founded by Henry VIII of England (Dec 19), Michelangelo is made chief architect of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, the Spanish conquest of Yucatán is completed , Antonio Musa Brassavola of Ferrara publishes the first definitely recorded successful tracheostomy - and all these fine people were born:
1546-xxxx Sancho Dávila Toledo* bishop – Ávila, Old Castile (1625/79)
1546-0127 Joachim Frederick* (House of Hohenzollern) Elector of Brandenburg - Cölln, Margraviate of Brandenburg (1608/62)
1546-0201 Mogami Yoshiaki* 最上 義光 daimyo - Yamagata Domain (1614/68)
1546-0204 Jakob Monau* Polish polymath/linguist/lawyer - Breslau (1603/57)
1546-0214 Johann Pistorius* German controversialist/historian - Nidda, Hesse (1608/62)
1546-0316 Francesco Barbaro* Catholic bishop/patriarch of Aquileia/diplomat - Venice, Republic of Venice (1616/70)
1546-0321 Bartholomeus Spranger* Flemish painter/sculptor/designer of prints - Antwerp (1611/64)
1546-0325 Giacomo Castelvetro* Italian humanist/teacher/travel writer - Modena (1616/69)
1546-0401 Nanbu Nobunao* 南部信直 Sengoku period samurai/daimyō - Iwate (1599/53)
1546-0420 Bernardo de Sandoval y Rojas* bishop/ cardinal/Grand Inquisitor - Aranda de Duero, Spanish Empire (1618/72)
1546-0505 Petrus Wesenbeck* Flemish lawyer - Antwerp, Ducky of Brabant, Habsburg Netherlands(1603/57)
1546-0521 Madeleine de l’Aubéspine* aristocrat/lady in waiting to Catherine de Medicis/poet - Villeroy, Burgundy, Kingdom of France (1596/49)
1546-0612 Robert Persons* Jesuit priest – Nether Stowey, Somerset, England (1610/63)
1546-0613 Tobias Matthew* Archbishop of York - Bristol, England (1628/81)
1546-0629 Dorothea of Denmark* Duchess of Brunswick/daughter of Christian III of Denmark-Norway - Kolding, Denmark-Norway (1617/70)
1546-0704 Murad III* Sultan of the Ottoman Empire - Manisa, Ottoman Empire (1595/48)
1546-0725 Cornelis de Groot* Dutch lawyer - Delft (1610/64)
1546-0810 Juliane of Nassau-Dillenburg* sister of prince William I of Orange-Nassau - Dillenburg (1588/42)
1546-0831 Daniel Adam z Veleslavína* lexicographer/ publisher/writer - Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia (1599/53)
1546-0911 Arild Huitfeldt* Danish historian/state official - Bergenhus, Denmark-Norway (1609/63)
1546-0913 Isabella Bendidio* Italian singer - Ferrara (after 1610)
1546-1005 Rudolph Snellius* Dutch linguist/mathematician - Oudewater, Habsburg Netherlands (1613/66)
1546-1007 Dietrich von Fürstenberg* German bishop - Waterlappe Castle, Ense (1618/72)
1546-1111 Richard Madox* explorer/ diarist - Shropshire, England (1583/36)
1546-1214 Tycho Brahe* Danish astronomer – Knutstorp castle, Scania, Denmark-Norway (1601/54)
Updated 17.3.2023
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