- Feb 4 Luis de Camões, Portuguese poet (d. 1580)
- Feb 10 Albrecht Giese, German politician and diplomat (d. 1580)
- Feb 15 Charles de Guise, archbishop/cardinal of Reims
Selim II (1524-1574)
May 28 11th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1566-74), born in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire