Fausto Sozzini

Fausto Paolo Sozzini, or simply Fausto Sozzini, was an Italian Renaissance humanist and theologian, and, alongside his uncle Lelio Sozzini, founder of the Nontrinitarian Christian belief system known as Socinianism. His doctrine was developed among the Polish Brethren in the Polish Reformed Church between the 16th and 17th centuries, and embraced by the Unitarian Church of Transylvania during the same period.

5 December 1539

Born on the same birth day (5 December): Bhumibol Adulyadej • Hans Hellmut Kirst • Milton H. Erickson • Morgan Brittany • Olli Jokinen • Tina Charles (basketball) • Willibald Pirckheimer

Born in the same month (December 1539): John Radcliffe (died 1568)