Quotes from authors born in 1546
When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy. There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.
Tycho Brahe
I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.
Veronica Franco
Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination.
Tycho Brahe
Such a gift might be easily taken back again.
Veronica Franco
I conclude, therefore, that this star is not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor... but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself one that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world.
Tycho Brahe
Patty Murray 
Johnny Carson 
Monica Bellucci 
Peter Paul Rubens 
Michael Ignatieff 
Edmondo De Amicis 
Henry Kravis 
Donna Dixon