Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (d. 1537) August 11 – Margaret Paleologa, Sovereign Marchioness of Montferrat (1531–1540) (d. 1566) August 24 – Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen (1525–1540) (d. 1558) October 6 Rowland Taylor, English Protestant martyr (d. 1555) John Caius, English physician (d. 1573) October 25 – Renée of France, French princess (d. 1574) October 28 – Francis Borgia, Spanish General of the Jesuits (d. 1572) December 28 – Nicholas Bacon, English politician (d. 1579) date unknown Jan Matsys, Flemish painter (d. 1575) Jörg Breu the Younger, German painter (d. 1547) Ferenc Dávid, Hungarian founder of the Unitarian Church (d. 1579) Solomon Luria, Polish-born Kabbalist (d. 1574) Oda Nobuhide, Japanese warlord (d. 1551) Bernard Palissy, French potter and writer Elizabeth Lucar, English calligrapher (d. 1537) Ambroise Paré, French surgeon (d. 1590) Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, French naval officer (d. 1571) Pierre de Manchicourt, Flemish composer (d. 1564) Gracia Mendes Nasi, Ottoman businessperson and philanthropist (d. 1569) Beatriz de la Cueva, Governor of Guatemala (d. 1541) Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Spanish conquistador (d. 1554) probable Tullia d'Aragona, Italian poet, author and philosopher (d. 1556) Aloysius Lilius, Italian inventor of the Gregorian calendar (d. 1576) Luis de Morales, Spanish religious painter (d. 1586) Lope de Rueda, Spanish dramatist and author (d. 1565) Lawrence Sheriff, Elizabethan gentleman and grocer (d. 1567) Claudio Veggio, Italian composer John Knox, Scottish reformer (d. 1572 ) Deaths February 1 – Sidonie of Poděbrady, Bohemian princess, duchess consort of Saxony (b. 1449) February 28 – Juan de la Cosa, Spanish cartographer and explorer (b. c. 1460) March 1 – Francisco de Almeida, Portuguese soldier and explorer (b. c. 1450) March 10 – Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, German preacher (b. 1445) March 12 – Mihnea cel Rău, Prince of Wallachia (b. c.1460) May 17 – Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (b. 1445) May 25 – Cardinal Georges d'Ambroise, aka Monseigneur le Ledat. Adviser to King Louis XII of France. (b. 1460) July 10 – Catherine Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus (b. 1454) July 14 – Arthur Stewart, Duke of Rothesay, heir to the Scottish throne (b. 1509) July 27 – Giovanni Sforza, Italian condottiere (b. 1466) August 17 Edmund Dudley, English statesman (b. c. 1462) Richard Empson, English statesman September 15 – Saint Catherine of Genoa (b. 1447) September 18 – Ursula of Brandenburg, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (b. 1488) November 11 – Bohuslav Hasištejnský z Lobkovic, Bohemian writer