Joachim du Bellay15221560French Renaissance poet and co-founder of La Pléiade who championed French literature's equality with classical traditions
Philipp Melanchthon14971560German Lutheran reformer, first systematic theologian of the Protestant Reformation, and influential designer of educational systems
Gustav I of Sweden14961560King of Sweden from 1523 to 1560, he led the Swedish War of Liberation and secured Sweden's independence from the Kalmar Union
Francis II of France15441560Roi de France de 1559 à 1560 et roi d'Écosse en tant que consort de Marie, reine d'Écosse, de 1558 jusqu'à sa mort
