John II, Count Palatine of Simmern, Count Palatine of Simmern (1509-1557) (b. 1492) June 11 – King John III of Portugal (b. 1502) July 10 – Giovanni Battista Ramusio, Italian geographer (b. 1485) July 16 – Anne of Cleves, fourth queen of Henry VIII of England (b. 1515) August 1 – Olaus Magnus, Swedish ecclesiastic and writer (b. 1490) August 18 – Claude de la Sengle, 48th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1494) September 1 – Jacques Cartier, French explorer (b. 1491) September 13 – John Cheke, English classical scholar and statesman (b. 1514) September 15 – Juan Álvarez de Toledo, Spanish Catholic cardinal (b. 1488) September 27 – Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (b. 1495) October 5 or October 6 – Kamran Mirza, Mughal prince (b. 1509) October 20 – Jean Salmon Macrin, French poet (b. 1490) October 25 – William Cavendish, English courtier (b. 1505) November 19 Bona Sforza, queen of Sigismund I of Poland (b. 1494) Maria de' Medici, Italian noble (b. 1540) December 6 – Elisabeth of Hesse, Hereditary Princess of Saxony (b. 1502) December 13 – Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia, Italian mathematician (b. 1499) December 27 – Queen Dangyeong, Korean royal consort (b. 1487) date unknown Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Spanish historian (b. 1478) Charlotte Guillard, French printer Nicolas de Herberay des Essarts, French translator Geoffrey Glyn, English lawyer probable Sebastian Cabot, Italian-born English explorer (b. 1476) Thomas Crecquillon, Flemish composer (b. 1490) References