Dec 21 Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, Archbishop of Mechelen, made Cardinal
Famous Birthdays
Dec 7 Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese daimyō of the Azuchi–Momoyama period through early Edo period (d. 1625)
Dec 9 Edwin Sandys, English politician (leading Parliamentary opponent of King James I of England) and a founder of Virginia colony, born in Worcestershire, England (d. 1629)