• Louise Labé met Clément Marot in the salon of William Scève's brother Maurice.^[1]

• John Lydgate, published anonymously, Life of St. Alban and St. Amphibalus, translated from French into English^[2]

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• June 3 – Hosokawa Fujitaka 細川藤孝, also known as Hosokawa Yūsai 細川幽斎 (died 1610), a Japanese, Sengoku period feudal warlord and poet
• October 18 – Jean Passerat (died 1602), French political satirist and poet
• Also:
• March 19 – Joseph of Anchieta (died 1597), Spanish Jesuit poet and playwright^[3]
  • George Gascoigne, birth year uncertain (died 1577), English poet
  • Lucas de Heere (died 1584), Flemish portrait painter, poet and writer
  • Fernando de Herrera (died 1597), Spanish
  • Rabbi Isaac Luria (died 1572), Jewish mystic and poet in Palestine

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• Poetry
• 16th century in poetry
• 16th century in literature
• French Renaissance literature
• Renaissance literature
• Spanish Renaissance literature