de León, Spanish lyric poet and mystic (d. 1591) Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (d. 1581) Annibale Padovano, Italian composer and organist (d. 1575) probable John Dudley, 2nd Earl of Warwick, English nobleman (d. 1554) Lawrence Humphrey, English clergyman and educator (d. 1590) Deaths January 5 – Felix Manz, leader of the Swiss Anabaptists (executed) (b. 1498) January 21 – Juan de Grijalva, Spanish conqueror (b. 1489) March 14 – Shwenankyawshin, Burmese king of Ava (b. 1476) March 17 – Rana Sanga, Indian ruler (b. 1484) April 19 Christoph I, Margrave of Baden-Baden (b. 1453) Henry Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland (b. 1477) April/May – Sir Thomas Docwra, English Grand Prior of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1458) May 6 – Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, Count of Montpensier and Dauphin of Auvergne (b. 1490) June 21 – Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian writer and statesman (b. 1469) June 28 – Bernardo de' Rossi, Italian bishop (b. 1468) July 28 – Rodrigo de Bastidas, Spanish conqueror and explorer (b. c. 1460) September 21 – Casimir, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Margrave of Bayreuth (b. 1481) October 27 – Johann Froben, Swiss printer and publisher (b. c. 1460) November 15 – Catherine of York, English princess (b. 1479) November 8 – Jerome Emser, German theologian (b. 1477) date unknown – Luisa de Medrano, Spanish scholar (b. 1484) Francesco Colonna, Italian Dominican priest (b. 1433) Div Sultan Rumlu, Persian military leader Petrus Thaborita, Frisian historian and monk (b. c. 1450) Cristoforo Solari, Italian sculptor and architect (b. c. 1460) Jan "Ciężki" Tarnowski, Polish nobleman (b. c. 1479) Huayna Capac, Sapa Inca of the Inca Empire (b. 1493) Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi, Italian calligrapher and type designer (b. 1475) Anna Swenonis, Swedish manuscript illuminator probable – Jane Shore, mistress of King Edward IV of England References