Birth year 1556 celebrities
Birth year 1556
Victoria of Valois (24 June 1556 – August 1556) and her twin sister, Joan of Valois), were the last children born to King Henry II of France and his wife, Catherine de’ Medici.
Saint Margaret Clitherow (1556 – 25 March 1586) is an English saint and martyr of the Roman Catholic Church. She is sometimes called “the Pearl of York”.
Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn (c. 1560 – 1623), or simply Jan Joosten, was a native of Delft and one of the first Dutchmen in Japan, arriving as one of William Adams’s shipmates (the second mate) on the De Liefde, which was disabled on the coast of K
Joan of Valois was, together with her twin sister Victoria of Valois, the last children born to King Henry II of France and his wife, Catherine de’ Medici.
Anne Cecil, Countess of Oxford (5 December 1556 – 5 June 1588) was the daughter of statesman William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, the chief advisor of Queen Elizabeth I of England, and the translator Mildred Cooke. In 1571, after her father had been
Saint Gonsalo Garcia (1556 – 5 February 1597) was a Roman Catholic saint from India. Born in the western coa