October 14 – Elizabeth of Denmark, Duchess of Mecklenburg, Danish princess (d. 1586) October 16 – Nicolas, Duke of Mercœur, French Catholic bishop (d. 1577) November 12 – Diego de Landa, Bishop of the Yucatán (d. 1579) date unknown Jan Borukowski, royal secretary of Poland (d. 1584) Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, French soldier (d. 1592) Jean Pithou, French lawyer and author (d. 1602); and his twin brother, Nicolas Pithou, French lawyer and author (d. 1598) Joseph Nasi, Portuguese Sephardi diplomat and administrator (d. 1579) Thomas Tusser, English poet and farmer (d. 1580) Luís de Camões, Portuguese poet (d. 1580) Plautilla Nelli, Italian painter (d. 1588) Wenceslaus III Adam, Duke of Cieszyn (d. 1579) Catherine Carey, cousin of Elizabeth I of England (d. 1569) Guyonne de Laval, French Huguenot magnate (d. 1567) possible Catherine Howard, fifth queen of Henry VIII of England, (b. between 1518 and 1524; d. 1542) Deaths January 5 – Marko Marulić, Croatian poet (b. 1450) January 6 – Amalie of the Palatinate, duchess consort of Pomerania (b. 1490) February 10 – Catherine of Saxony, Archduchess of Austria (b. 1468) February 11 – Isabella of Aragon, Duchess of Milan, daughter of King Alfonso II of Naples (b. 1470) February 20 – Tecun Uman, Kʼicheʼ Mayan ruler (b. c. 1500) March 28 Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess of Württemberg (b. 1451) Ingrid Persdotter, Swedish nun and letter writer April 14 – William Conyers, 1st Baron Conyers, English baron (b. 1468) April 30 – Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard, French soldier (b. 1473) May 17 – Francesco Soderini, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1453) May 21 – Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, English soldier and statesman (b. 1443) May 23 – Ismail I, Safavid dynasty Shah of Persia (b. 1487) May 31 – Camilla Battista da Varano, Italian Roman Catholic nun and saint (b. 1458) June 12 – Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, Spanish conquistador (b. 1465) July 9 – Sibylle of Brandenburg, Duchess of Jülich and Berg (b. 1467) July 20 – Claude of France, queen consort of Francis I of France (b. 1499) August 4 – Helen of the Palatinate, Duchess of Pomerania (b. 1493) August 24 – Sir William Scott, English Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (b. 1459) September 18 – Charlotte of Valois, French princess (b. 1516) October 5 – Joachim Patinir, Flemish landscape painter (b. c. 1480) October 20 – Thomas Linacre, English humanist