García de Silva Figueroa
Don García de Silva Figueroa was a Spanish diplomat, and the first Western traveller to correctly identify the ruins of Takht-e Jamshid in Persia as the location of Persepolis, the ancient capital of the Achaemenid Empire and one of the great cities of antiquity.
29 December 1550
Born on the same birth day (29 December): Andreas Dackell • Ann Demeulemeester • Branden Jacobs-Jenkins • Cheikh Anta Diop • Christian Kracht • December 29 • Dorothy Morkis • Iain De Caestecker • Janice Lynn Mather • Julio Rodríguez • William Gaddis
Born in the same month (December 1550): Cesare Cremonini (philosopher) • Henry I, Duke of Guise • Man Singh I