is completed in Estonia. The first recorded fatal accident involving a gun in England is recorded at Welton, East Riding of Yorkshire. The artistic form appears in Georgia and spreads. Births January 1 – Gómez Pérez Dasmariñas, Spanish colonial administrator (d. 1593) January 18 – Isabella Jagiellon, queen consort of Hungary (d. 1559) February 5 – René of Châlon, Prince of the House of Orange (d. 1544) February 15 – Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, first Spanish Governor of Florida (d. 1574) February 16 – Gaspard de Coligny, French Huguenot leader (d. 1572) February 17 – Francis, Duke of Guise, French soldier and politician (d. 1563) February 19 – Froben Christoph of Zimmern, author of the Zimmern Chronicle (d. 1566) March 4 Hindal Mirza, Mughal Emperor (d. 1551) Adrian Stokes, English politician (d. 1586) March 17 – Thoinot Arbeau, French priest and author (d. 1595) March 22 – Catherine Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk, English noblewoman (d. 1580) March 31 – King Henry II of France (d. 1559) April 13 – Catherine de' Medici, Italian noblewoman, queen consort of Henry II of France and regent of France (d. 1589) May 27 – Girolamo Mei, Italian humanist historian (d. 1594) June 6 – Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician, and botanist (d. 1603) June 12 – Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1574) June 15 – Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, illegitimate son of King Henry VIII of England (d. 1536) June 23 – Johannes Goropius Becanus, Dutch physician, linguist and humanist (d. 1572) June 24 – Theodore Beza, French theologian (d. 1605) July 20 – Pope Innocent IX (d. 1591) September 23 – Francis, Count of Enghien, French military leader (d. 1546) October 14 – Marie of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Princess of Brandenburg-Kulmbach and by marriage Electress Palatine (d. 1567) November 9 – Ogasawara Nagatoki, Japanese daimyō (d. 1583) November 22 – Johannes Crato von Krafftheim, German humanist and physician (d. 1585) date unknown Janet Beaton, Scottish noblewoman (d. 1569) Nicholas Grimald, English poet (d. 1562) Edwin Sandys, English archbishop (d. 1588) Barbara Thenn, Austrian merchant and Münzmeister (d. 1579) Imagawa Yoshimoto, Japanese warlord (d. 1560) Paula Vicente, Portuguese artist, musician and writer (d. 1576) Stanisław Zamoyski, Polish nobleman (d. 1572) probable Thomas Gresham, English merchant and financier (d. 1579) Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1583) possible Catherine Howard, fifth Queen of Henry VIII of England (born between