– Guido Ascanio Sforza di Santa Fiora, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1564) December 13 – Clara of Saxe-Lauenburg, Princess of Saxe-Lauenburg and Duchess of Brunswick-Gifhorn by marriage (d. 1576) December 17 – Ernest III, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen (d. 1567) December 19 – Enrique de Borja y Aragón, Spanish noble of the House of Borgia (d. 1540) date unknown James Halyburton, Scottish reformer (d. 1589) Hubert Languet, French diplomat and reformer (d. 1581) Edmund Plowden, English legal scholar (d. 1585) Mayken Verhulst (a.k.a. Marie Bessemers), Flemish artist (d. 1596 or 1599) possible – Catherine Howard, fifth queen consort of Henry VIII of England (b. between 1518 and 1524; d. 1542) Deaths February 9 – Jean IV de Rieux, Breton noble and Marshal (b. 1447) May 31 – Elisabeth of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach, German margravine (b. 1494) July 10 – Sibylle of Baden, Countess consort of Hanau-Lichtenberg (b. 1485) August 16 – Loyset Compère, French composer (b. c. 1445) August 27 – Joan of Naples, queen consort of Naples (b. 1478) November 20 Marmaduke Constable, English soldier (b. c. 1455) Pierre de La Rue, Flemish composer (b. c. 1452) November 24 – Vannozza dei Cattanei, mistress of Pope Alexander VI (b. 1442) December 5 – Gian Giacomo Trivulzio, Italian military commander (b. c. 1440) December 27 – Mahmood Shah Bahmani II, sultan of the Bahmani Sultanate (b. c. 1470) date unknown Moxammat Amin of Kazan, khan of Kazan (b. c. 1469) Kabir, Indian mystic (b. 1440) Aruj, Ottoman corsair, brother of Hayreddin Barbarossa Guido Mazzoni, sculptor (b. c. 1445) Muhammad ibn Azhar ad-Din, sultan of Adal (assassinated) (b. c. 1473) Basil Solomon, Syriac Orthodox Maphrian of the East. References