Hesse, Countess Palatine of Zweibrücken (d. 1591) December 11 – Fulvio Orsini, Italian humanist historian (d. 1600) December 16 – Laurent Joubert, French physician (d. 1582) date unknown Titu Cusi, Inca ruler of Vilcabamba (d. 1571) Giambologna, Italian sculptor (d. 1608) Michał Wiśniowiecki, Ruthenian prince at Wiśniowiec (d. 1584) George Puttenham, English critic (d. 1590) Deaths January 7 – Peter Vischer the Elder, German sculptor (b. 1455) January 9 – Wang Yangming, Chinese Neo-Confucian scholar (b. 1472) January 29 - Ōuchi Yoshioki, Japanese daimyo (b. 1477) February 2 – Baldassare Castiglione, Italian writer and diplomat (b. 1478) February 4 – Ludwig Haetzer, German Protestant reformer (executed) (b. 1500) March 28 – Philipp II, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg (b. 1501) April 20 – Silvio Passerini, Italian cardinal and lord of Florence (b. 1469) May 12 – Cecily Bonville, 7th Baroness Harington (b. c. 1460) June 21 – John Skelton, English poet (b. c. 1460) September 6 – George Blaurock, Swiss founder of the Anabaptist Church (b. 1491) September 27 – George of the Palatinate, German nobleman; Bishop of Speyer (1513–1529) (b. 1486) November 20 – Karl von Miltitz, German papal nuncio (b. c. 1490) date unknown Krishnadevaraya, Vijaynagar emperor Richard Pynson, Norman-born English printer (b. 1448) Andrea Sansovino, Italian sculptor (b. 1467) Petrus Särkilahti, Finnish Lutheran and scientist Paulus Aemilius Veronensis, Italian historian (b. 1455) probable – Lo Spagna, Italian painter possible – La Malinche, Nahua (native Mexican) interpreter and translator for Hernán Cortés, during the Conquest of Mexico References