major failure. Venetian ambassadors suggest to Turkey the construction of a Suez Canal. Aldus Manutius publishes his edition of Demosthenes in Venice. Matthias Grünewald paints a Crucifixion. The Signoria of Florence commissions both Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo to paint the walls of the Grand Council Chamber in the Palazzo Vecchio. Raphael paints The Marriage of the Virgin, which exemplifies some major principles of High Renaissance art. Births January 1 – Caspar Creuziger, German humanist (d. 1548) January 17 – Pope Pius V (d. 1572) January 28 – Anna II, Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg, German noblewoman, reigning from 1516 until her death (d. 1574) February 3 – Scipione Rebiba, Italian cardinal (d. 1577) March 31 – Guru Angad, Indian religious leader (d. 1552) April 12 – Alessandro Campeggio, Italian cardinal (d. 1554) April 30 – Francesco Primaticcio, Italian painter (d. 1570) May 5 – Stanislaus Hosius, Polish cardinal (d. 1579) May 29 – Antun Vrančić, Croatian archbishop (d. 1573) June 24 – Johannes Mathesius, German theologian (d. 1565) July 18 – Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (d. 1575) August 1 – Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Prussia, Danish princess (d. 1547) August 6 – Matthew Parker, English Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1574) September 4 – John V, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, Prince of Anahlt-Dessau (1516–1544) and Anhalt-Zerbst (1544–1551) (d. 1551) September 20 – Philip III, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (d. 1559) October 29 – Shin Saimdang, Korean calligraphist and noted poet (d. 1551) November – Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian novelist and poet (d. 1573) November 13 – Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse (d. 1567) December – Nicholas Udall, English playwright and schoolmaster (d. 1556) December 31 – Beatrice of Portugal, Duchess of Savoy (d. 1538) date unknown Ali ibn Ahmad al-Samhudi (علي بن أحمد السمهودي), Egyptian Sunni Islamic scholar, author of Wafa al-Wafa bi akhbar Dar al-Mustafa John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English Tudor nobleman and politician (executed 1553) Patrick Hamilton, Scottish churchman and Reformer (burned at the stake 1528) Dirk Philips, early Dutch Anabaptist writer and theologian (d. 1568) Deaths January 9 – Gaspare Nadi, Italian builder (b. 1418) January 27 – Ludovico II, Marquess of Saluzzo (b. 1438) February 17 – Eberhard II, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1447) April 15 – Filippino Lippi, Italian painter (b. 1457) May 31 – Engelbert II of Nassau (b. 1451) June – Lê Hiến Tông, Emperor of the Lê Dynasty June 19 – Bernhard