1563

• January 2 (January 2, 1562 O.S., January 11, 1563 N.S.) – The convocation of bishops and clerics of the Church of England is opened at St Paul's Cathedral in London by the Dean of the Arches, Robert Weston to agree upon the wording of what will become the Thirty-nine Articles, with the assembly adopting all but three of the Forty-two Articles promulgated during the reign of King Edward VI in 1553. The conference lasts for three months before agreeing upon the Articles to be submitted for further modification.
• January 25 – In Italy, Instituto Bancario San Paolo di Torino, a constituent of the major financial group Sanpaolo IMI, is founded.[https://mappastorica.intesasanpaolo.com/bank/detail/IT-ISP-MAPPAITALIA-0000174/banca Il progetto Mappa Storica, Intesa Sanpaolo]
• February 1 – Sarsa Dengel succeeds his father Menas as Emperor of Ethiopia at age 14.James Bruce, Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, vol. 4 (J. Ruthven, 1790) p.97{{cite book |last1=Pankhurst |first1=Richard |title=The Ethiopian Royal Chronicles |date=1967 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-608-11625-9 |page=82 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W4VyAAAAMAAJ&q=1563 |access-date=28 October 2023 |language=en}}
• February 18 – Francis, Duke of Guise, is assassinated while besieging Orléans by Jean de Poltrot.{{cite journal |last1=Sutherland |first1=N. M. |title=The Assassination of François Duc de Guise, February 1563 |journal=The Historical Journal |date=June 1981 |volume=24 |issue=2 |pages=279–295 |doi=10.1017/S0018246X00005471 |s2cid=159857086 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/historical-journal/article/abs/assassination-of-francois-duc-de-guise-february-1563/F0BD97B7DF1DA3BC314A24813D5069ED |access-date=28 October 2023 |language=en |issn=1469-5103|url-access=subscription }}
• March 19 – The Edict of Amboise is signed at the Château d'Amboise by Catherine de' Medici, acting as regent for her son Charles IX of France, having been negotiated between the Huguenot Louis, Prince of Condé, and Anne, duc de Montmorency, Constable of France. It accords some toleration to the Huguenots, especially to aristocrats.{{cite book |last1=Thompson |first1=James Westfall |title=The wars of religion in France, 1559-1576; the Huguenots, Catherine de Medici and Philip II |date=1909 |publisher=The University of Chicago Press |location=Chicago |pages=190–191 |url=https://archive.org/details/warsofreligionin00thom/page/190/mode/2up?q=%22Ch%C3%A2teau%22 |access-date=28 October 2023}} It officially ends the first phase of the French Wars of Religion,{{cite book |last1=Roberts |first1=Penny |title=Peace and Authority during the French Religious Wars c.1560–1600 |date=2013 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK |isbn=978-1-137-32675-1 |pages=29–50 |chapter-url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137326751_3 |access-date=28 October 2023 |language=en |chapter=Phases of Peace|doi=10.1057/9781137326751_3 }} and the combined Huguenot and royal armies then march north to besiege the English in Le Havre.{{cite book |last1=Galland |first1=J. A. |title=Essai sur l'histoire du protestantisme à Caen et en Basse-Normandie de l'Edit de Nantes à la Révolution (1598-1791) |date=1898 |publisher=Grassart |page=xxiv |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=neLzQ3ZivUEC&dq=Edit+d%27Amboise+le+havre+%2219+mars+1563%22&pg=PR31-IA3 |access-date=28 October 2023 |language=fr}}

• April 5 – The English galleon ship HMS Grehound strikes a sandbar off of the coast of Rye, East Sussex and sinks with all hands in the English Channel, including the Admiral of the Narrow Seas, John Malyn.N.A.M. Rodger, The Safeguard of the Sea: A Naval History of Britain, Volume 1: 660 to 1649 (Penguin, 1997) p.198
• April 10 – Royal assent is given by Queen Elizabeth of England to parliamentary approval of multiple laws, including the Highways Act 1562 (requiring all householders in a parish to provide six days labor per year on building highways); the Poor Act 1562 (providing for fines for persons who refuse to contribute to a fund for relief of the poor); the Supremacy of the Crown Act 1562 (making refusal to swear allegiance to the monarch punishable as treason); and the Witchcraft Act 1562 (limiting the death penalty for witchcraft to cases where a defendant caused another person's death)
• April 23 – The cornerstone is laid for the construction of El Escorial, the royal palace for the monarch of Spain.{{cite web |url=https://ingeoexpert.com/en/2020/01/23/the-monastery-of-el-escorial-all-its-history/ |title=The Monastery of El Escorial: all its history |date=January 23, 2020 |website=Ingeo Expert |access-date=December 5, 2022}} Construction will not be finished for 21 more years, with completion on September 13, 1584.
• May 5 (3rd day of 4th month, Eiroku 6) – The Battle of Yudokoru takes place in Japan at the Inaba Province (now the eastern Tottori Prefecture), as Takanobu Takeda defeats the shogun Toyokazu Yamana.
• May 25 – Elizabeth College, Guernsey is founded, by order of Queen Elizabeth I of England.{{cite book |last=Collenette |first=V. G. |title=Elizabeth College|date=1963 |publisher=The Guernsey Press Co. |page=1 |url=https://elizabethcollege-heritage.daisy.websds.net/Filename.ashx?tableName=ta_books&columnName=filename&recordId=2 |access-date=28 October 2023}}
• May 30 – At Bornholm, the Danish fleet fires on the Swedish navy, leading to a Danish defeat and precipitating the Northern Seven Years' War.{{cite book |last1=Lavery |first1=Jason |title=Germany's Northern Challenge |date=25 October 2021 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-47570-0 |pages=14–16 |url=https://brill.com/display/title/7712?language=en |access-date=28 October 2023 |language=en |chapter=Germany's Northern Challenge: The Holy Roman Empire and the Scandinavian Struggle for the Baltic 1563-1576}}
• June 4 – The Parliament of Scotland passes the Witchcraft Act, making both the practice of witchcraft, and the act of consulting with witches, punishable by burning at the stake.Lizanne Henderson, Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment: Scotland, 1670-1740 (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016) p.329{{cite web|title=The Witchcraft Act and its Impact in Scotland, 1563-1736|url=https://blog.historicenvironment.scot/2022/06/the-witchcraft-act-and-its-impact-in-scotland/|publisher=Historic Environment Scotland|date=2022-06-10|accessdate=2023-12-26}}

• July 28 – The English surrender Le Havre to the French after a siege.{{cite web |title=Elizabeth: July 1563, 21-31 |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/foreign/vol6/pp469-485 |website=www.british-history.ac.uk |access-date=29 October 2023}}
• August 13 – Northern Seven Years' War: Denmark–Norway and the Free City of Lübeck declare war against the Kingdom of Sweden.
• August 18 – Merchants from the Bungo Province destroy the Portuguese settlement in Yokoseura, Japan
• September 4 – Northern Seven Years' War: King Frederick II of Denmark, advancing from Halland, takes Old Älvsborg from Sweden.{{cite book |title=Svenska slagfält |date=2003 |publisher=Wahlström & Widstrand |isbn=978-91-46-20225-7 |page=103 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AAwoAQAAMAAJ&q=Frederik+II+%C3%84lvsborg+%224.+september+1563%22 |access-date=29 October 2023 |language=sv}}

• October 7 – Giovanni Battista Lercari is elected as the new Doge of the Republic of Genoa.
• November 9 – The Army of Sweden, under the command of King King Erik XIV, suffers a severe defeat in the Battle of Mared against the Army of Denmark, commanded by King Frederik II.[http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/battles_mared.html Battle of Mared, 9 November 1563], by J. Rickard, HistoryofWar.org, July 24, 2007 In the battle, near what is now the city of Oskarström in Sweden, the Swedes suffer at least 2,500 casualties. The Swedish Army is able to retreat and rebuild, but the Danes plunder the village of Övraby, which is never rebuilt.
• November 11 – The Council of Trent amends existing Roman Catholic canon law to deter unannounced marriages. In order for a marriage to be recognized by the Church, the names of the bridge and groom are to be announced publicly in a chapel during Mass, and registered with the parish priests of both parties.
• December 4 – The Council of Trent (which had opened on December 13, 1545) officially closes.{{cite book|author=Jean Delumeau|title=Catholicism Between Luther and Voltaire: A New View of the Counter-Reformation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sEUJAQAAIAAJ|year=1977|publisher=Burns & Oates|isbn=978-0-664-21341-1|page=24}} It reaffirms all major Roman Catholic doctrines, and declares the Deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament to be canonical, along with the rest of the Bible. Chapter 1, Session 24, promulgates the decree Tametsi, stipulating that for a marriage to be valid, consent (the essence of marriage) as expressed in the vows has to be given publicly before witnesses, one of whom has to be the parish priest.

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• January – Penelope Blount, Countess of Devonshire, English noblewoman (d. 1607){{cite book |last1=Stedall |first1=Robert |title=Elizabeth I's Final Years: Her Favourites and Her Fighting Men |date=30 June 2022 |publisher=Pen and Sword History |isbn=978-1-3990-8318-8 |page=xxxv |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-LF4EAAAQBAJ&dq=Penelope+Blount+%22january+1563%22&pg=PR35 |access-date=29 October 2023 |language=en}}
• January 6
• Johann Christoph von Westerstetten, German bishop (d. 1637){{cite book |title=Mitteilungen der Bayerischen Numismatischen Gesellschaft |date=1885 |publisher=Kress & Hornung |page=102 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Li90k71I5uAC&dq=Johann+Christoph+von+Westerstetten+%226+januar+1563%22&pg=PA102 |access-date=29 October 2023 |language=de}}
• Martin Becanus, Belgian Jesuit priest (d. 1624){{cite book |title=New Catholic Encyclopedia: Baa-Cam |date=2003 |publisher=Thomson/Gale |isbn=978-0-7876-4006-4 |page=191 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ziwKAQAAMAAJ&q=Martin+Becanus+6+januari+1563 |access-date=29 October 2023 |language=en}}
• January 19 – Leonhard Hutter, German theologian (d. 1616){{cite book |last1=Röser-Israel |first1=Lars |title=Verteidigung der Wahrheit: Leonhard Hutter (1563–1616) als Universitätslehrer und Kontroverstheologe |date=22 November 2021 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |isbn=978-3-11-075677-7 |page=20 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t9pwEAAAQBAJ&dq=Leonhard+Hutter+%2219+januar+1563%22&pg=PA20 |access-date=31 October 2023 |language=de}}
• January 29 – William Slingsby, English army officer (d. 1634){{cite web |title=SLINGSBY, William (1563-1634) |url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/slingsby-william-1563-1634 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org |access-date=31 October 2023}}
• January 30 – Franciscus Gomarus, Dutch theologian (d. 1641){{cite book |last1=Nagtglas |first1=Frederik |title=Levensberichten van Zeeuwen: Zijnde een vervolg op P. de la Rue, Geletterd, staatkundig en heldhaftig Zeeland |date=1890 |publisher=J.C. & W. Altorffer |page=277 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XJ27q_g8X24C&dq=Franciscus+Gomarus+%2230+januari+1563%22&pg=PA277 |access-date=31 October 2023 |language=nl}}
• March 5 – John Coke, English politician (d. 1644){{cite web |title=COKE, John (1563-1644) |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/coke-john-1563-1644 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org |access-date=31 October 2023}}
• March 29 – Sir Miles Sandys, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1645){{cite book |last1=Cokayne |first1=George Edward |title=Complete Baronetage: English baronetcies, 1611-1625 and Irish, 1618-1625 |date=1900 |publisher=W. Pollard & Company, Limited |page=89 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3MxKAQAAMAAJ&dq=Sir+Miles+Sandys+%2229+march+1563%22&pg=PA89 |access-date=31 October 2023 |language=en}}
• April 15 – Guru Arjan Dev, fifth Sikh leader (d. 1606){{cite book |title=Life and work of Guru Arjan : history, memory, and biography in the Sikh tradition |date=2006 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New Delhi |isbn=978-0-19-567921-2 |page=64 |url=https://archive.org/details/lifeworkofguruar0000pash/page/64/mode/2up?q=april |access-date=31 October 2023}}
• May 9 – Frederick IV of Fürstenberg, German noble (d. 1617){{cite book |title=Allgemeine Encyclopädie |date=1850 |publisher=F. A. Brockhaus |page=493 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iq0qAAAAMAAJ&dq=Frederick+IV+%229+mai+1563%22&pg=PA493 |access-date=31 October 2023 |language=de}}
• June 1 – Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English statesman and spymaster (d. 1612){{cite book |last1=Haynes |first1=Alan |title=Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, 1563-1612: Servant of Two Sovereigns |date=1989 |publisher=P. Owen |isbn=978-0-7206-0716-1 |page=11 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W4QgAAAAMAAJ&q=Robert+Cecil+%221+june+1563%22 |access-date=31 October 2023 |language=en}}
• June 4 – George Heriot, Scottish goldsmith and philanthropist (d. 1624){{cite book |last1=Stephen |first1=Leslie |title=Dictionary of National Biography |date=1891 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=244 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HGEsptzmN6sC&dq=George+Heriot+%2215+june+1563%22&pg=PA244 |access-date=31 October 2023 |language=en}}
• July 19 – Lamoral, 1st Prince of Ligne (d. 1624){{cite book |last1=Janson |first1=E. M. C. M. |title=Uit de geschiedenis van Wassenaar |date=1972 |publisher=Kruseman |isbn=978-90-233-0264-3 |page=31 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DpMdAQAAMAAJ&q=%2219%20juli%201563%22 |access-date=31 October 2023 |language=nl}}
• September 4 – Wanli Emperor of China (d. 1620){{cite book |title=歷史月刊 |date=1988 |publisher=歷史月刊雜誌社 |page=93 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SBxLAQAAIAAJ&q=%E2%80%9C1563%E5%B9%B49%E6%9C%884%E6%97%A5%E2%80%9D |access-date=1 November 2023 |language=zh}}
• September 15 – Elisabeth of Anhalt-Zerbst, Electress of Brandenburg (d. 1607){{cite book |last1=Kirchner |first1=Ernst Daniel Martin |title=Die Churfürstinnen und Königinnen auf dem Throne der Hohenzollern: Im Zusammenhange mit ihren Familien-u. Zeit-Verhältnissen;aus d. Quellen. ¬Die letzten acht Churfürstinnen, mit deren Bildnissen |date=1867 |publisher=Wiegandt & Grieben |page=40 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZNgAAAAAcAAJ&dq=Elisabeth+von+Anhalt++%2215+september+1563%22&pg=PA40 |access-date=1 November 2023 |language=de}}
• September 18 – Agnes of Limburg-Styrum, Abbess of Elten, Vreden, Borghorst and Freckenhorst (d. 1645){{cite book |title=Westfälische Lebensbilder |date=1930 |publisher=Aschendorff |isbn=978-3-402-05951-7 |page=1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E8U5I0ZYKqUC&q=Agnes+%2218+september+1563%22 |access-date=1 November 2023 |language=de}}
• September 27 – Thomas Freke, English politician (d. 1633){{cite web |title=FREKE, Thomas (1563-1633 |url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/freke-thomas-1563-1633 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org |access-date=1 November 2023}}
• September 30 – Enno III, Count of East Frisia, Count of Ostfriesland from 1599 to 1625 from the Cirksena family (d. 1625){{cite book |last1=Wiarda |first1=Tileman Dothias |title=Ostfriesische Geschichte. 2. Aufl: Von 1540 bis 1611. 3 |date=1793 |publisher=August Friedrich Winter |page=308 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_wlUAAAAcAAJ&dq=Enno+III+%2230+september+1563%22&pg=PA308 |access-date=1 November 2023 |language=de}}
• October 4 – Dorothea of Saxony, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (d. 1587){{cite book |title=Neues Archiv für Sächsische Geschichte und Altertumskunde |date=1886 |publisher=Wilhelm Baensch |page=156 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KIErAQAAIAAJ&dq=Dorothea+von+Sachsen+%224+oktober+1563%22&pg=PA156 |access-date=1 November 2023 |language=de}}
• October 13 – Francis Caracciolo, Italian Catholic priest (d. 1608){{cite book |title=Catholic Encyclopedia |date=1909 |publisher=Appleton |page=218 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BFc_AQAAMAAJ&dq=Francis+Caracciolo+%2213+october+1563%22&pg=PA218 |access-date=1 November 2023 |language=en}}
• October 14 – Jodocus Hondius, Flemish artist (d. 1633){{cite book |title=Bulletin de la Société belge d'études géographiques: Tijdschrift van de Belgische Vereniging voor Aardrijkskundige studies |date=1964 |publisher=Société belge d'études géographiques |page=241 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iP46AQAAIAAJ&q=%2217%20october%201563%22 |access-date=1 November 2023 |language=fr}}
• October 28 – Berlinghiero Gessi, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1639){{cite web |title=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of January 19, 1626 |url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1626.htm |website=cardinals.fiu.edu |access-date=1 November 2023}}
• October 30 – Sophie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Duchess of Hunters Village (d. 1639){{cite book |last1=Hammerbacher |first1=G. A. |title=Historische Beschreibung der Stadt Nürnberg: von ihrem Anfang bis auf unsere Zeit |date=1867 |publisher=Stich |page=490 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iAPkMPhssFkC&dq=Sophie+von+Braunschweig+%2230+oktober+1563%22&pg=PA490 |access-date=3 November 2023 |language=de}}
• November 5 – Countess Anna of Nassau (d. 1588){{cite book |last1=Dönges |first1=Carl |title=Wilhelm der Schweiger und Nassau-Dillenburg: beiträge zu den beziehungen des Oraniers zu seinen stammlanden |date=1909 |publisher=Weidenbach |page=158 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u8n990b_u98C&dq=Anna+van+Nassau+%225+november+1563%22&pg=PA158 |access-date=3 November 2023 |language=de}}
• November 8 – Henry II, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1624){{cite book |last1=Pfister |first1=Christian |title=Histoire de Nancy |date=1909 |publisher=Berger-Levrault |page=252 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7vpP1kWcvtEC&dq=Henri+II+%228+novembre+1563%22&pg=PA252 |access-date=3 November 2023 |language=fr}}
• November 19 – Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English statesman (d. 1626){{cite book |last1=Hay |first1=Millicent V. |title=The life of Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester (1563-1626) |date=1984 |publisher=Folger Shakespeare Library |location=Washington, D.C. |isbn=978-0-918016-70-6 |page=15 |url=https://archive.org/details/lifeofrobertsidn00haym/page/14/mode/2up?q=%22november+1563%22 |access-date=3 November 2023}}
• November 20 – Sophie of Württemberg, German noble (d. 1590){{cite book |title=Erörterungen auf dem Gebiete der sächsischen Münz- und Medaillen-Geschichte: bei Verzeichnung der Hofrath Engelhardt'schen Sammlung |date=1888 |publisher=Erbstein |page=95 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y8I_AQAAMAAJ&dq=sophie+von+W%C3%BCrttemberg+%2220+november+1563%22&pg=PA95 |access-date=3 November 2023 |language=de}}
• November 28 – Hosokawa Tadaoki, Japanese daimyō (d. 1646)
• December 2 – Mutio Vitelleschi, Italian Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1645){{cite book |last1=Patrignani |first1=Giuseppe Antonio |title=Menologio Di Pie Memorie d'alcuni Religiosi Della Compagnia Di Gesu'.: che contiene Gennajo, Febbrajo, e Marzo. Tomo Primo |date=1730 |publisher=Presso Niccolò Pezzana |page=98 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T_FkAAAAcAAJ&dq=Muzio+Vitelleschi+%222+dicembre+1563%22&pg=RA1-PA98 |access-date=3 November 2023 |language=it}}
• December 19 – Lord William Howard, English nobleman (d. 1640){{cite book |title=The Transactions of the East Riding Antiquarian Society |date=1904 |publisher=The Society |page=91 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6gk5AQAAMAAJ&dq=William+Howard+%2219+december+1563%22&pg=PA91 |access-date=3 November 2023 |language=en}}
• December 20 – Juan Fernandez Pacheco, 5th Duke of Escalona, Spanish noble and diplomat (d. 1615){{cite book |last1=Béthencourt |first1=Francisco Fernández de |title=Historia genealógica y heráldica de la monarquia española: casa real y grandes de España |date=1900 |publisher=tip. de E. Teodoro |page=246 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aUdeAAAAcAAJ&dq=Juan+Fernandez+Pacheco+%2220+de+diciembre+de+1563%22&pg=PA246 |access-date=3 November 2023 |language=es}}
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• Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devonshire (d. 1606){{cite book |last1=Falls |first1=Cyril |title=Mountjoy, Elizabethan General |date=1955 |publisher=Odhams Press |isbn=978-7-240-00943-7 |page=21 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jYbRAAAAMAAJ&q=Charles+Blount+%221563%22 |access-date=3 November 2023 |language=en}}
• Louise Bourgeois Boursier, French Royal midwife (d. 1636){{cite journal |last1=Dunn |first1=P. M. |title=Louise Bourgeois (1563–1636): royal midwife of France |journal=Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition |date=1 March 2004 |volume=89 |issue=2 |pages=F185–F187 |doi=10.1136/adc.2003.037929 |pmid=14977911 |pmc=1756029 |url=https://fn.bmj.com/content/89/2/F185.short |access-date=3 November 2023 |language=en |issn=1359-2998}}
• John Dowland, English composer (d. 1626){{cite book|author1=David Mason Greene|author2=Constance Green|title=Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m3S7PIxe0mwC&pg=PA87|year=1985|publisher=Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd.|isbn=978-0-385-14278-6|pages=87}}
• Michael Drayton, English poet (d. 1631){{cite book|author=Harold Bloom|title=The New Moulton's Library of Literary Criticism: Elizabethan-Caroline|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=thFaAAAAMAAJ|year=1986|publisher=Chelsea House Publishers|isbn=978-0-87754-781-5|page=1184}}
• Scipione Gentili, Italian legal scholar (d. 1616){{cite web |title=GENTILI, Scipione |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/scipione-gentili_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ |website=Treccani |access-date=3 November 2023 |language=it}}
• Anna Guarini, Italian virtuoso singer (d. 1598){{cite book |last =Stras |first =Laurie |author-link=Laurie Stras |title=Women and Music in Sixteenth-Century Ferrara |date=27 September 2018 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-15407-0 |page=219 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JjdqDwAAQBAJ&dq=Anna+Guarini+%221563%22&pg=PA219 |access-date=3 November 2023 |language=en}}
• Hosokawa Gracia, Japanese noblewoman (d. 1600){{cite book |last1=Roldán-Figueroa |first1=Rady |title=The Martyrs of Japan: Publication History and Catholic Missions in the Spanish World (Spain, New Spain, and the Philippines, 1597–1700) |date=22 June 2021 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-45806-2 |edition=21 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OLY0EAAAQBAJ&dq=Hosokawa+Gracia+%221563%22&pg=PA21 |access-date=3 November 2023 |language=en}}
• Heo Nanseolheon, Korean poet (d. 1589){{cite book |last1=Lee |first1=Hai-soon |last2=Yi |first2=Hye-sun |title=The Poetic World of Classic Korean Women Writers |date=1 January 2005 |publisher=Ewha Womans University Press |isbn=978-89-7300-627-4 |page=11 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K17mLqrKA40C&q=%221563%22 |access-date=3 November 2023 |language=en}}
• Marcin Kazanowski, Polish nobleman (d. 1636){{cite book |last1=Brodowski |first1=Samuel |title=Żywoty hetmanów Królestwa Polskiego i Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego |date=1850 |publisher=Czasopisma Wojskowe |page=121 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I5o6AQAAMAAJ&q=%221563%22 |access-date=3 November 2023 |language=pl}}
• Zygmunt Kazanowski, Polish nobleman (d. 1634){{cite book |last1=Szymanowski |first1=Wojciech |title=Dykcyonarz biograficzny powszechny, czyli Krótkie wspomnienia żywotów ludzi wsławionych cnotą, mądrością, przemysłem, męstwem, wynalazkami, błędami: Od początku świata do najnowszych czasów |date=1851 |publisher=Glücksberg |page=596 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=StA5AAAAcAAJ&dq=Zygmunt+Kazanowski+%221563%22&pg=PA596 |access-date=3 November 2023 |language=pl}}
• Robert Naunton, English politician and writer (d. 1635){{cite web |title=NAUNTON, Robert (c.1563-1635) |url=http://historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/naunton-robert-1563-1635 |website=historyofparliamentonline.org |access-date=3 November 2023}}
• Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, Portuguese seaman and explorer (d. 1614){{cite web |title=Pedro Fernandez de Quiros (1563–1615) |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/quiros-pedro-fernandez-de-2568 |website=adb.anu.edu.au |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |access-date=3 November 2023 |language=en}}
• Mariana de Jesús Torres, Spanish nun and mystic (d. 1635){{cite book |last1=Paniagua Pérez |first1=Jesús |title=Los inicios del monacato femenino en Quito: Mariana de Jesús |url=https://buleria.unileon.es/handle/10612/11611 |publisher=Universidad País Vasco |access-date=3 November 2023 |date=1996|isbn=9788475857299 }}
• Joshua Sylvester, English poet (d. 1618){{cite book |last1=Bartas |first1=Guillaume de Salluste Du |title=The Divine Weeks of Josuah Sylvester |date=1908 |publisher=H.M. Youmans |page=xi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A5wFAQAAIAAJ&q=1563 |access-date=3 November 2023 |language=en}}
• Jean Titelouze, French organist and composer (d. 1633){{cite book |last1=Pirro |first1=André |title=Les organistes français du 17e siècle: Jean Titelouze, 1563-1633. Conférence prononcée dans la salle de la Société Saint-Jean, le 24 mars, 1898 |date=1898 |publisher=Paris Schola cantorum |page=4 |url=https://archive.org/details/lesorganistesfra00pirr/page/4/mode/2up?q=1563 |access-date=3 November 2023}}
• Yi Su-gwang, Korean scholar (d. 1628){{cite book |title=文化財案内文案集 |date=1986 |publisher=文化財管理局文化財研究所 |page=227 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8wY2AQAAIAAJ&q=Yi+Su-gwang+%221563%22+1585 |access-date=3 November 2023 |language=en}}
• Henri, Duke of Joyeuse, French general (d. 1608){{cite book |last1=Caillières |first1=Jacques de |title=Histoire du duc de Joyeuse ou le Courtisan predestiné |date=1728 |publisher=Musier |page=21 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UAs6AAAAcAAJ&q=1563&pg=PA10 |access-date=1 November 2023 |language=fr}}

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• January 4 – Elisabeth of Hesse, Countess Palatine of Zweibrücken, later Countess Palatine of Simmern (b. 1503){{cite book |last1=HOFFMEISTER |first1=Jacob Christoph Carl |title=Historisch-genealogisches Handbuch über alle Linien des hohen Regentenhauses Hessen, etc |date=1874 |publisher=Oscar Ehrhardt's University Bookstore |location=Marburg |page=26 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZSrAEsgMp3wC&dq=Elisabeth+von+hessen+%224+januar+1563%22&pg=PA26 |access-date=4 November 2023 |language=de}}
• February 1 – Emperor Menas of Ethiopia (fever) (b. 1559){{cite book|author=Saheed A. Adejumobi|title=The History of Ethiopia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-U7aydmefrgC&pg=PA178|year=2007|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-32273-0|pages=178}}
• February 4 – Wilhelm von Brandenburg, Archbishop of Riga (b. 1498){{cite book |last1=Russlands |first1=Gesellschaft für Geschichte und Altertumskunde der Ostseeprovinzen |title=Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft für Geschichte und Altertumskunde der Ostseeprovinzen Russlands |date=1892 |publisher=Druck von W. F. Häcker |page=12 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hNMGAAAAYAAJ&dq=Wilhelm+von+Brandenburg+%224+februar+1563%22&pg=RA5-PA12 |access-date=4 November 2023 |language=de}}
• February 24 – Francis, Duke of Guise, French soldier and politician (shot) (b. 1519){{cite book |last1=LIBERGE |first1=Marin |title=Le Siège de Poitiers; suivi de la bataille de Moncontour et du siège de Saint-Jean d'Angély. Nouvelle édition, annotée par H. Beauchet-Filleau |date=1846 |publisher=Letang |page=214 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EBJmAAAAcAAJ&dq=Fran%C3%A7ois+de+Lorraine+%2224+fevrier+1563%22&pg=PA214 |access-date=4 November 2023 |language=fr}}
• March 2 – Ercole Gonzaga, Spanish Catholic cardinal (b. 1505){{cite web |title=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of May 3, 1527 |url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1527.htm |website=cardinals.fiu.edu |access-date=4 November 2023}}
• March 17 – Girolamo Seripando, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1493){{cite web |title=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of February 26, 1561 |url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1561.htm#Seripando |website=cardinals.fiu.edu |access-date=4 November 2023}}
• March 19 – Arthur Brooke, English poet{{cite ODNB |title=Brooke, Arthur|url=https://www-oxforddnb-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-3494?rskey=f0ax3g&result=2|year=2004 |access-date=4 November 2023 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/3494}}
• March 24 – Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese military leader (b. 1514)
• March 28 – Heinrich Glarean, Swiss music theorist (b. 1488){{cite book |last1=Eggeling |first1=Georg |title=Tonkünstler-Lexikon |date=1899 |publisher=C.F. Vieweg |page=92 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A8BEAQAAMAAJ&dq=Heinrich+Glarean+%2228+mai+1563%22&pg=PA92 |access-date=4 November 2023 |language=de}}
• April 15 – Bernhard VIII, Count of Lippe (b. 1527){{cite book |last1=Oeynhausen |first1=Julius Graf von |title=Geschichte des Geschlechts von Oeynhausen: aus gedruckten und ungedruckten Quellen |date=1870 |publisher=Schöningh |page=169 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p7Q4AAAAYAAJ&dq=Bernhard+VIII+%2215+april+1563%22&pg=PA160 |access-date=4 November 2023 |language=de}}
• April 30 – Henry Stafford, 1st Baron Stafford, English baron (b. 1501){{cite ODNB |title=Stafford, Henry|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-26205|year=2004 |access-date=4 November 2023 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/26205}}
• May 21 – Martynas Mažvydas, author of the first printed book in Lithuanian (b. 1510){{cite book |last1=Kaunas |first1=Domas |last2=Koženiauskienė |first2=Regina |title=Martynas Mažvydas and Old Lithuania: Collection of Papers |date=1998 |publisher=Pradai |isbn=978-9986-943-14-3 |page=133 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SoTgAAAAMAAJ&q=%2221%20may%201563%22 |access-date=4 November 2023 |language=en}}
• June 10 – William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English statesman (b. 1506){{cite book |last1=Gammon |first1=Samuel Rhea |title=Statesman and schemer ; William, First Lord Paget, Tudor Minister |date=1973 |publisher=Archon Books |location=Hamden |isbn=978-0-208-01405-4 |page=249 |url=https://archive.org/details/statesmanschemer0000gamm/page/248/mode/2up?q=1563 |access-date=5 November 2023}}
• June 24 – Prince Yuri of Uglich (b. 1532){{cite book |title=Соборы русской церкви: материалы IX Российской научной конференции посвященной Памяти святителя Макария |date=2002 |publisher=Можайск-Терра |isbn=978-5-7542-0107-1 |page=22 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OFWQAAAAMAAJ&q=%D0%AE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9+%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87+%2224+%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%8F%D0%B1%D1%80%D1%8F+1563%22 |access-date=5 November 2023 |language=ru}}
• August 11 – Bartolomé de Escobedo, Spanish composer (b. 1500){{cite web |title=Bartolomé de Escobedo |url=https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/17975/bartolome-de-escobedo |website=dbe.rah.es |access-date=5 November 2023}}
• August 18 – Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and writer (b. 1530){{cite book |last1=Nettlau |first1=Max |title=Der Vorfrühling der Anarchie: ihre historische Entwicklung von den Anfängen bis zum Jahre 1864 |date=1925 |publisher=Der Syndikalist |page=40 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oxDZAAAAMAAJ&dq=%C3%89tienne+de+La+Bo%C3%A9tie+%2218+august+1563%22&pg=PA40 |access-date=5 November 2023 |language=de}}
• August 30 – Wolfgang Musculus, German theologian (b. 1497){{cite book |last1=Dellsperger |first1=Rudolf |last2=Freudenberger |first2=Rudolf |last3=Weber |first3=Wolfgang E. J. |title=Wolfgang Musculus (1497–1563) und die oberdeutsche Reformation |date=25 September 2017 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |isbn=978-3-05-007447-4 |page=23 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j5FdDwAAQBAJ&q=%2230%20august%201563%22 |access-date=5 November 2023 |language=de}}
• September 17 – Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, English soldier (b. 1526){{cite ODNB |title=Manners, Henry, second earl of Rutland|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-17955|year=2004 |access-date=5 November 2023 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/17995}}
• October 31 – Anthony Kitchin, British bishop (b. 1471){{cite web |title=KITCHIN, ANTHONY (alias Dunstan before his consecration), 1477 - 1563; bishop of Llandaff, 1545-63 {{!}} Dictionary of Welsh Biography |url=https://biography.wales/article/s-KITC-ANT-1477 |website=biography.wales |access-date=5 November 2023}}
• November
• John Bale, English churchman (b. 1495){{cite web |title=John Bale {{!}} English bishop and author |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Bale |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=28 April 2019 |language=en}}
• Ioan Iacob Heraclid, ruler of Moldavia (b. 1511){{cite book |title=Un brief et vray récit de la prinse de Térouane et Hedin |date=1872 |publisher=Fr.-J. Olivier |page=xvii |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dgxQAAAAcAAJ&q=1563 |access-date=5 November 2023 |language=fr}}
• December 1 – Yi Gwang-sik, Korean politician and general (b. 1493)
• December 29
• Sebastian Castellio, French theologian (b. 1515){{cite journal |last1=Jones |first1=Iorwerth |title=Sebastien Castellion Apostle of Religious Liberty |journal=The Expository Times |date=December 1983 |volume=95 |issue=3 |pages=72–76 |doi=10.1177/001452468309500303 |s2cid=171017370 |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/001452468309500303 |access-date=5 November 2023 |language=en |issn=0014-5246|url-access=subscription }}
• Thomas Naogeorgus, German playwright (b. 1508){{cite book |last1=Theobald |first1=Leonhard |title=Das Leben und Wirken des Tendenzdramatikers der Reformationszeit Thomas Naogeorgus seit seiner Flucht aus Sachsen |date=1908 |publisher=M. Heinsius nachfolger |page=103 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sGcwAAAAYAAJ&dq=Thomas+Naogeorgus+%2229+dezember+1563%22&pg=PA103 |access-date=5 November 2023 |language=de}}
• date unknown
• Odet de Selve, French diplomat (b. c. 1504){{cite book |title=Correspondance politique de Odet de Selve, ambassadeur de France en Angleterre (1546-1549); |date=1888 |publisher=F. Alcan |location=Paris |page=xx |url=https://archive.org/details/correspondancep00pongoog/page/n27/mode/2up?q=1563 |access-date=5 November 2023}}

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