Ernest, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (b. 1482) February 8 – John Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Coburg, (b. 1521) February 17 – Chamaraja Wodeyar III, King of Mysore (b. 1492) February 19 – Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1511) February 25 – Hirate Masahide, Japanese diplomat and tutor of Oda Nobunaga (suicide) (b. 1492) April – Minkhaung of Prome, last king of Prome in Burma (Myanmar). April 9 – François Rabelais, French writer May 5 – Erasmus Alberus, German humanist (b. 1500) May 28 – Johannes Aal, Swiss theologian (b. 1500) June 26 – Tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow (b. 1552) July 6 – King Edward VI of England (b. 1537) July 9 – Maurice, Elector of Saxony (b. 1521) July 16 – Bernardino Maffei, Catholic cardinal (b. 1514) August 6 – Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (b. 1478) August 17 – Charles III, Duke of Savoy (b. 1486) August 22 – John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland (b. 1502; executed) September 6 – Juan de Homedes y Coscon, 47th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. c.1477) October 6 – Şehzade Mustafa, Suleiman the Magnificent's first-born son by Mahidevran Sultan (b. 1515) October 7 – Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer (b. 1500) October 16 – Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter (b. 1472) October 17 – George III, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, German prince (b. 1507) October 27 – Michael Servetus, Spanish Protestant theologian (burned at the stake) (b. 1511) October 28 – Giovanni Salviati, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1490) October 30 – Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (b. 1489) November 15 – Lucrezia de' Medici, Italian noblewoman (b. 1470) November 23 – Sebastiano Antonio Pighini, Italian cardinal (b. 1500) November 27 – Şehzade Cihangir, Ottoman prince (b. 1531) December 3 – Ludwig of Hanau-Lichtenberg, German nobleman (b. 1487) December 25 – Pedro de Valdivia, Spanish conquistador (b. 1497) date unknown George Joye, English Protestant Bible translator (b. c. 1495) Gunilla Bese, Finnish noble and fiefholder (b. 1475) References