1553 in France

• Monarch – Henry II{{cite book |last1=Nolan |first1=Cathal J. |title=The Age of Wars of Religion, 1000-1650: An Encyclopedia of Global Warfare and Civilization |date=2006 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-313-33733-8 |page=391 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1h9zzSH-NmwC&pg=PA391 |language=en}}

• Invasion of Corsica

File:Musée national du Château de Pau - Portait d'Henri IV en Mars - Ambroise Dubois P 81 20 1.jpg, King of France 1589–1610]]

• December 13 – Henry IV of France (d.1610).{{cite encyclopedia |title=Henrik IV, Konge af Frankrig |encyclopedia=Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon |volume=11 |year=1921 |edition=2 |editor=Blangstrup, Chr. |editor-link=Christian Blangstrup |publisher=J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel |location=Copenhagen |language=da |url=https://runeberg.org/salmonsen/2/11/0274.html |access-date=2 October 2015 }}
• May 14– Margaret of Valois, Queen of France (d.1615){{cite web |title=Margaret Of Valois {{!}} queen consort of Navarre {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Margaret-of-Valois |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=15 August 2022 |language=en}}

• Louise of Lorraine, queen consort (d.1601)
• Pierre de Lancre, judge, conducted a massive witch-hunt (d.1631)
• Jacques Auguste de Thou, historian (d.1617)

• Louise Borgia, Duchess of Valentinois, noblewoman (b.1500)
• François Rabelais, writer and humanist (b.1483 -1494)
• Gilles Le Breton, architect
• Gabriel de Luetz, Baron and Lord of Aramon and Vallabrègues, French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire (b. 1508)

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