Sforza, Italian noble (d. 1501) February 9 – Helen of the Palatinate, Duchess of Pomerania (d. 1524) March 15 – Anne de Montmorency, Constable of France (d. 1567) April 11 – George I, Duke of Pomerania from the House of Griffins (d. 1531) April 25 – Giovanni Gaddi, Italian priest (d. 1542) May 5 – Alessandro Pasqualini, Italian architect (d. 1559) May 6 – Girolamo Seripando, Catholic cardinal (d. 1563) June 5 – Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (d. 1555) June 10 – Anton Fugger, German merchant (d. 1560) September 28 – Agnolo Firenzuola, Italian poet and litterateur (d. 1543) September 29 – Yi Gwang-sik, Korean politician and general (d. 1563) October 14 – Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (d. 1568) October 17 – Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Renaissance Italian sculptor (d. 1560) November 11 – Bernardo Tasso, Italian courtier and poet (d. 1569) November 11 or December 17 – Paracelsus, born Philippus von Hohenheim, Swiss physician and scientist (d. 1541) November 17 – John Neville, 3rd Baron Latimer, English politician (d. 1543) November 25 – Osanna of Cattaro, Dominican visionary and anchoress (d. 1565) December 9 – Íñigo López de Mendoza, 4th Duke of the Infantado (d. 1566) December 25 – Antoinette de Bourbon, French noblewoman (d. 1583) December 27 – Johann Pfeffinger, German theologian (d. 1573) December 31 – Eleonora Gonzaga, Duchess of Urbino, Italian politically active duchess (d. 1570) date unknown Jobst II, Count of Hoya (d. 1545) Simon Grynaeus, German scholar and theologian (d. 1541) Matsudaira Shigeyoshi, Japanese general (d. 1580) probable Jean du Bellay, French cardinal and diplomat (d. 1560) Robert Maxwell, 5th Lord Maxwell, Scottish statesman (d. 1546) Deaths May – Pietro Antonio Solari, Italian architect (b. 1450) May 10 – Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. c. 1433) May 14 – Nannina de' Medici, member of de' Medici family (b. 1448) June 14 – Ermolao Barbaro, Italian scholar (b. 1454) August 19 – Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1415) September 9 – Mirko Derenčin, Croatian leader October 11 – Eleanor of Naples, Duchess of Ferrara (b. 1450) October 22 – James Douglas, 1st Earl of Morton November 6 – Andrey Bolshoy, Russian prince (b. 1446) date unknown Ahmad Zarruq, Moroccan scholar and Sufi sheikh (b. 1442) James Blount, English soldier Isabel Bras Williamson, Scottish merchant (b. 1430) Kim Si-seup, Korean scholar and author (b. 1435) Martín Alonso Pinzón, Spanish navigator and explorer