16th Century
From 'Anecdotes About Authors' (1975)

William Tyndale?-1536
Johh Stow1525?-1605
John Stubbs1543-1591
Edmund Spenser 1552?-1599
Sir Walter Ralegh1552?-1618
Richard Hooker 1554?-1600
Francis Bacon1561-1626
William Shakespeare 1564-1616
Sir Henry Wotton1568-1639
John Donne1573?-1631
Ben Jonson1573?-1637
Robert Burton1577-1640