buildings dissolved by Henry VIII of England include: Bisham Priory, Bridlington Priory, Castle Acre Priory, Chertsey Abbey, Furness Abbey, London Charterhouse and Valle Crucis Abbey. Births January 1 – Jan Krzysztof Tarnowski, Polish noble (d. 1567) January 16 – Albrecht VII, Count of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (d. 1605) January 21 – Antonio Maria Salviati, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1602) February 26 – Christopher II, Margrave of Baden-Rodemachern (d. 1575) March 17 – Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese warlord (d. 1598) March 4 – Longqing Emperor, Emperor of China (d. 1572) May 18 – Guido Luca Ferrero, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1585) May 20 – Hieronymus Fabricius, Italian anatomist (d. 1619) May 27 – Louis IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Marburg, son of Landgrave Philip I (d. 1604) May 28 or May 31 – Shah Ismail II of Persia (d. 1577) June 3 – João Manuel, Prince of Portugal, Portuguese prince (d. 1554) July 20 – Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (d. 1604) July 29 – Pedro Téllez-Girón, 1st Duke of Osuna, Spanish duke (d. 1590) July 30 – Christopher, Duke of Mecklenburg and administrator of Ratzeburg (d. 1592) August 9 – Francesco Barozzi, Italian mathematician (d. 1604) August 15 – Shimazu Toshihisa, Japanese samurai (d. 1592) October – Lady Jane Grey, claimant to the throne of England (d. 1554) October 12 – King Edward VI of England (d. 1553) November 21 – Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo, 4th Duke of Alba, Spanish military leader (d. 1583) December 5 – Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shōgun (d. 1597) December 20 – King John III of Sweden (d. 1592) December 24 – Willem IV van den Bergh, Stadtholder of Guelders and Zutphen (d. 1586) December 26 – Albert, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (d. 1593) date unknown Jane Lumley, English translator (d. 1578) Shimizu Muneharu, Japanese military commander (d. 1582) John Almond, English Cistercian monk (d. 1585) Deaths January 6 Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (b. 1510) Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (b. 1481) January 12 – Lorenzo di Credi, Florentine painter and sculptor (b. 1459) February 2 – Johann Carion, German astrologer and chronicler (b. 1499) February 3 – Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare, Anglo-Irish noble, rebel (executed) (b. 1513) February 8 Otto von Pack, German conspirator (b. c. 1480) Saint Gerolamo Emiliani, Italian humanitarian (b. 1481) January 11 – John, Hereditary Prince of Saxony, German prince (b. 1498) March 25 – Charles, Duke of Vendôme, French noble