of Bartolomé de las Casas. A witch-hunt is conducted in the town of Schiltach, Germany. Births January 26 – Jens Bille, Danish son of Claus Bille and Lisbeth Ulfstand (d. 1575) April 6 – Wolfgang, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen (d. 1595) May 15 – Maria of Austria, Duchess of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, daughter of Emperor Ferdinand I (d. 1581) May 20 – Viceroy Thado Minsaw of Ava (d. 1584) June 1 – János Zsámboky, Hungarian scholar (d. 1584) July 17 – Antoine de Créqui Canaples, French Catholic cardinal (d. 1574) July 22 – Leonhard Thurneysser, German scholar and quack at the court of John George, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1595) September 2 – Francesco Cattani da Diacceto, Bishop of Fiesole (d. 1595) September 4 – Hans Fugger, German businessman (d. 1598) September 14 – Philipp Apian, German mathematician and medic (d. 1589) Late September – Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby, English noble and diplomat (d. 1594) October 7 – Scipione Ammirato, Italian historian (d. 1601) October 12 – Jacques de Savoie, 2nd Duc de Nemours (d. 1585) October 25 – Matthew Wesenbeck, Belgian jurist (d. 1586) October 27 – Herbert Duifhuis, Dutch minister (d. 1581) November 14 – Richard Topcliffe, English torturer (d. 1604) November 16 – Anna d'Este, duchess consort of Nemours (d. 1607) November 18 – Roberto di Ridolfi, Italian conspirator against Elizabeth I of England (d. 1612) November 29 – Johannes Letzner, German Protestant priest and historian (d. 1613) December – Hendrick van Brederode, Dutch noble (d. 1568) December 6 – Vespasiano I Gonzaga, Italian noble and diplomat (d. 1591) December 9 – Şehzade Cihangir, Ottoman prince (d. 1553) December 10 – Henry IX, Count of Waldeck (d. 1577) date unknown Akiyama Nobutomo, Japanese nobleman (d. 1575) António, Prior of Crato, claimant to the throne of Portugal (d. 1595) John Popham, Lord Chief Justice of England (d. 1607) Deaths January 14 – Walraven II van Brederode, Dutch noble (b. 1462) January 31 – Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley (b. 1460) February 16 – Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician (b. 1452) March 6 – Pedrarias Dávila, Spanish colonial administrator (b. c. 1440) May 19 – Jan Łaski, Polish statesman and diplomat (b. 1456) May 20 – Guy XVI, Count of Laval (b. 1476) May 10 – George I, Duke of Pomerania from the House of Griffins (b. 1493) July 7 – Tilman Riemenschneider, German sculptor (b. 1460) July 17 – Hosokawa