1539 in poetry

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Births
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 * February 23 – Salima Sultan Begum (Makhfi) (died 1613), Mughal empress consort and Urdu poet
 * November – Jacques Grévin born about this year (died 1570), French playwright and poet
 * Paulus Schede Melissus (died 1602), German

Deaths
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