Births and deaths in 16th century literature
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Births
- 1503 - Thomas Wyatt
- 1510 - Martynas Mažvydas
- 1515 - Roger Ascham
- 1517 - Henry Howard
- 1547 - Miguel de Cervantes
- 1551 - William Camden
- 1554 - Philip Sidney
- 1555 - Lancelot Andrewes
- 1558 - Robert Greene
- 1558 - Thomas Kyd
- 1561 - Luís de Góngora y Argote
- 1564 - Christopher Marlowe
- 1564 - William Shakespeare
- 1570 - Robert Aytoun
- 1572 - Ben Jonson
- 1576 - John Marston
- 1577 - Robert Burton
- 1581 - Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft
- 1583 - Philip Massinger
- 1587 - Joost van den Vondel
- 1594 - James Howell
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Deaths
- 1502 - Henry Medwall
- 1513 - Robert Fabyan
- 1552 - Alexander Barclay
- 1563 - John Bale
- 1563 - Martynas Mažvydas
- 1568 - Roger Ascham
- 1577 - George Gascoigne
- 1592 - Robert Greene
- 1593 - Christopher Marlowe
- 1594 - Thomas Kyd
- 1595 - Luis Barahona de Soto
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