Matteo Ricci

Matteo Ricci was an Italian Jesuit priest and one of the founding figures of the Jesuit China missions. He created the Kunyu Wanguo Quantu, a 1602 map of the world written in Chinese characters. In 2022, the Apostolic See declared its recognition of Ricci's heroic virtues, thereby bestowing upon him the honorific of Venerable.

6 October 1552

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Born in the same month (October 1552): Tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich of Russia (1552–1553)