1596) Benedict Pereira, Spanish theologian (d. 1610) Deaths February 18 – Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, German alchemist and occult writer (b. 1486) February 28 – Wolter von Plettenberg, Master of the Livonian Order (b. 1450) April 4 – Beatrix of Baden, Margravine of Baden, Countess Palatine consort of Simmern (b. 1492) May 4 (executed by Henry VIII of England): Saint John Houghton, Carthusian monk Saint Robert Lawrence, Carthusian monk Saint Augustine Webster, Prior of the London Charterhouse Saint Richard Reynolds, Bridgettine monk of Syon May 26 – Francesco Berni, Italian poet (b. 1497) June 12 – Elisabeth Wandscherer, Dutch Anabaptist June 19 – Sebastian Newdigate, Carthusian monk and martyr (b. 1500) June 22 – John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester (executed) (b. c. 1469) July 6 – Sir Thomas More, English lawyer, writer, and politician (executed) (b. 1478) July 11 – Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1484) August 10 – Ippolito de' Medici, ruler of Florence (poisoned) (b. 1509) September – George Nevill, 5th Baron Bergavenny (b. 1469) September 23 – Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1513) November 17 – Piero de Ponte, 45th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1462) December 29 – Matsudaira Kiyoyasu, Japanese daimyo (b. 1511) December 31 – William Skeffington, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1465) date unknown Jodocus Badius, Flemish pioneer of printing (b. 1462) Canghali of Kazan, khan of Qasim and Kazan (b. 1516) Bartolomeo Tromboncino, Italian composer (b. 1470) Feliks Zamoyski, Polish noble References