of the Swiss Confederacy. Niccolò Machiavelli is banished from Florence by the House of Medici, and writes The Prince. Leo Africanus visits Timbuktu, second city of the Songhai Empire. Paracelsus begins studying at Ferrara University. Births February 14 – Domenico Ferrabosco, Italian composer (d. 1573) March 15 – Hedwig Jagiellon, Electress of Brandenburg (d. 1573) April 22 – Tachibana Dōsetsu, Japanese Daimyō (d. 1585) June 10 – Louis, Duke of Montpensier (1561–1582) (d. 1582) August 3 – John, Margrave of Brandenburg-Küstrin (d. 1571) September 23 – Hans Buser, Swiss noble (d. 1544) September 24 – Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1535) October 30 – Jacques Amyot, French writer (d. 1593) December 3 – Lorenzo Strozzi, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1571) December 23 – Thomas Smith, English scholar and diplomat (d. 1577) date unknown Abe Motozane, Japanese general (d. 1587) Anna Hogenskild, Swedish lady-in-waiting (d. 1590) Michael Baius, Belgian theologian (d. 1589) George Cassander, Flemish theologian (d. 1566) Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare (d. 1537) Elisabeth Plainacher, Austrian alleged witch (d. 1583) probable – Elizabeth Seymour, English noble, sister-in-law of Henry VIII of England (d. 1563) Deaths January – Hans Folz, German author (b. c. 1437) January 20 – Helena of Moscow, Grand Duchess consort of Lithuania and queen consort of Poland (b. 1476) February 20 – King John of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (b. 1455) February 21 – Pope Julius II (b. 1443) March 10 – John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, English general (b. 1443) April 24 – Şehzade Ahmet, oldest son of Sultan Bayezid II (executed) (b. 1465) April 30 – Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk, Duke of Suffolk (b. 1471) August 3 – Ernst II of Saxony, Archbishop of Magdeburg (1476–1513) and Administrator of Halberstadt (b. 1464) September 9 (killed at the Battle of Flodden) James IV of Scotland (b. 1473) George Douglas, Master of Angus (b. 1469) William Douglas of Glenbervie (b. 1473) William Graham, 1st Earl of Montrose, Scottish politician (b. 1464) George Hepburn, Scottish bishop Adam Hepburn, 2nd Earl of Bothwell, Scottish politician, Lord High Admiral of Scotland Adam Hepburn of Craggis David Kennedy, 1st Earl of Cassilis, Scottish soldier (b. 1478) Alexander Lauder of Blyth, Scottish politician Alexander Stewart, Scottish archbishop (b. 1493) Matthew Stewart, 2nd Earl of Lennox, Scottish politician (b. 1488) October 27 – George Manners, 11th Baron de Ros, English