LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Pierre de Brantôme	Historian	c. 1540	15-Jul-1614	French historical writer, biographer
Edmund Campion	Religion	24-Jan-1540	1-Dec-1581	Jesuit martyr, hanged at Tyburn
Sir Francis Drake	Explorer	c. 1540	28-Jan-1596	Defeated Spanish Armada
Sir Christopher Hatton	Government	1540	1591	Lord Chancellor of England, 1587-91
Hugh O'Neill	Military	c. 1540	1616	Irish Rebel, 2nd Earl of Tyrone
Paolo Paruta	Historian	14-May-1540	6-Dec-1598	Official historian of Venice
Joseph Scaliger	Scholar	5-Aug-1540	21-Jan-1609	De emendatione temporum

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