31 – Philip Hoby, English politician (b. 1505) June 28 – Thomas Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy of Chiche, English courtier (b. 1506) July 17 – George I of Württemberg-Mömpelgard (b. 1498) August 11 – Justus Menius, German Lutheran pastor (b. 1499) September 21 – Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1500) October – Mellin de Saint-Gelais, French poet (b. c. 1491) October 18 – Maria of Austria, queen of Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (b. 1505) October 21 – J. C. Scaliger, Italian scholar (b. 1484) November 1 Anne Brooke, Baroness Cobham, English noble (b. 1501) Erhard Schnepf, German theologian (b. 1495) November 15 – Gilbert Kennedy, 3rd Earl of Cassilis, Scottish politician and judge (b. 1515) November 17 (bur.) Hugh Aston, English composer (b. 1485) Queen Mary I of England (b. 1516) Reginald Pole, Cardinal Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1500) December 7 – Johann Forster, German theologian (b. 1496) December 16 – Thomas Cheney, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (b. c. 1485) December 19 – Cornelius Grapheus, Flemish writer (b. 1482) December 28 – Hermann Finck, German composer (b. 1527) date unknown Archibald Campbell, 4th Earl of Argyll, Scottish nobleman and politician (b. 1507) Robert Recorde, Welsh physician and mathematician (b. c. 1512) References