Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• October 6 (birth year uncertain^[2]) — Marie de Gournay, also known as Marie le Jars, demoiselle de Gournay (died 1645), French writer, author of feminist tracts and poet; a close associate of Michel de Montaigne; buried in the Saint-Eustache Church in Paris
• November 26 – Francesco Bracciolini (died 1645), Italian
• Also:
  • Giambattista Basile (died 1632), Italian poet, courtier and collector of fairy tales
  • Thomas Bastard (died 1618), English poet and clergyman
  • John Hoskins (died 1638), English poet, classicist and judge
  • Luisa Carvajal y Mendoza (died 1614), Spanish aristocrat, religious poet and author and Catholic missionary to England

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• April 25 – Louise Labé (born ca. 1524), French
• September 5, 6 or 7 – Suleyman the Magnificent (born ca. 1495), Ottoman Empire sultan and poet
• September 7 – Martin Bošňák (born ca. 1500), Slovak
• September 27 – Marco Girolamo Vida (born 1485), Italian, Latin-language poet
• October 31 – Richard Edwardes (or Edwards, born 1525), English poet and playwright
• November 17 – Annibale Caro (born 1507), Italian

• Poetry
• 16th century in poetry
• 16th century in literature
• Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature
• Elizabethan literature
• French Renaissance literature
• Renaissance literature
• Spanish Renaissance literature