– Daniele Barbaro, Venetian churchman, diplomat and scholar (d. 1570) February 10 – Domenico Bollani, Bishop of Milan (d. 1579) February 16 – Georg Joachim Rheticus, Austrian cartographer and scientific instrument maker (d. 1574) February 22 – Tahmasp I, Shah of Iran (d. 1576) February 22 – Johannes Gigas, German theologian (d. 1581) February 26 – Otto Truchsess von Waldburg, German Catholic cardinal (d. 1573) March 8 – Amago Haruhisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1561) March 23 – Lorenzino de' Medici, Italian writer and assassin (d. 1548) April 2 – Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, Italian condottiero (d. 1574) April 5 – Joachim Mörlin, German bishop (d. 1571) April 30 – Alexander Stewart, Duke of Ross, Scottish prince (d. 1515) May 28 – Shimazu Takahisa, daimyō and fifteenth head of the Shimazu clan (d. 1571) June 16 – John Cheke, English classical scholar and statesman (d. 1557) August 29 – García Álvarez de Toledo, 4th Marquis of Villafranca, Spanish noble and admiral (d. 1577) September 12 – Philip, Duke of Mecklenburg, (d. 1557) September 20 – Philipp IV, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (d. 1590) September 24 – Prospero Santacroce, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1589) October 7 – Queen Inseong, Korean royal consort (d. 1578) October 31 – Wolfgang Lazius, Austrian historian (d. 1565) November 29 – Andreas Musculus, German theologian (d. 1581) November 30 – Andreas Masius, German Catholic priest (d. 1573) December 31 – Andreas Vesalius, Flemish anatomist (d. 1564) date unknown Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese military leader (d. 1563) George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly, Scottish nobleman (d. 1562) Charles de Mornay, Swedish (originally French) court official, diplomat and royal favorite (d. 1574) John Knox, Scottish clergyman, theologian and writer (d. 1572) Barbara Uthmann, German businessperson (d. 1575) Deaths January 2 – William Smyth, English bishop and statesman (b. 1460) January 9 – Anne of Brittany, queen of Charles VIII of France and Louis XII of France (b. 1477) March 11 – Donato Bramante, Italian architect (b. 1444) April 21 – Ichijō Fuyuyoshi, Japanese court noble (b. 1465) May 3 – Anna of Brandenburg, Duchess consort of Schleswig and Holstein (b. 1487) June 23 – Henry IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1463) June 25 – Zuster Bertken Dutch anchorite (b. 1426) July 20 – György Dózsa, Transylvanian peasant revolt leader (b. 1470) October 21 – Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken and Count of Veldenz (1489–1514) (b.