1554) April 20 – Johannes Agricola, German Protestant reformer (d. 1566) April 25 – Juan Téllez-Girón, 4th Count of Ureña, Spanish count (d. 1558) May 24 – Pontormo, Italian painter (d. 1557) August 18 – Johannes Scheubel, German mathematician (d. 1570) September 8 – Sri Chand, Indian founder of the ascetic sect of Udasi (d. 1629) September 11 – Elisabeth of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Duchess of Guelders (1518–1538) (d. 1572) September 12 – King Francis I of France (d. 1547) October 31 – Wolfgang of the Palatinate, Count Palatine of Neumarkt (1524–1558), governor of the Upper Palatinate (d. 1558) November 5 – Hans Sachs, German meistersinger ("mastersinger") (d. 1576) November 6 – Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1566) November 12 – Margaret of Anhalt-Köthen, Princess of Anhalt by birth, Duchess consort of Saxony (d. 1521) November (probable) – François Rabelais, French Renaissance writer (d. 1553) date unknown Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, Spanish explorer and cartographer (d. 1519) Christina Gyllenstierna, Swedish national heroine (d. 1559) Ambrosius Holbein, German painter (d. 1519) Qiu Ying, Chinese painter (d. 1552) Saitō Dōsan, Japanese warlord (d. 1556) John Sutton, 3rd Baron Dudley (d. 1554) Hans Tausen, Danish religious reformer (d. 1561) Deaths January 11 – Domenico Ghirlandaio, Italian artist (b. 1449) January 20 – Seongjong of Joseon, King of Joseon (b. 1457) January 25 – King Ferdinand I of Naples (b. 1423) May 7 – Eskender, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1471) August 1 – Giovanni Santi, Italian artist and father of Raphael (b. c. 1435) August 11 – Hans Memling, Flemish painter (b. c. 1430) September 24 – Poliziano, Italian humanist (b. 1454) October 21 – Gian Galeazzo Sforza, Duke of Milan (b. 1469) October 26 – Amda Seyon II, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. c. 1487) November 8 – Melozzo da Forlì, Italian painter (b. c. 1438) November 15 – William Calthorpe, English knight (b. 1410) November 16 – Theda Ukena, countess regent of East Frisia (b. 1432) November 17 – Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian humanist (b. 1463) December 19 or December 20 – Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet (b. c. 1434-1441) References