Vigenère, French diplomat and cryptographer (d. 1596) April 21 – Marco Antonio Bragadin, Venetian lawyer and military officer (d. 1571) June 5 – Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry (d. 1574) July 4 – Pier Francesco Orsini, Italian condottiero and art patron (d. 1583) July 18 – Duke George II of Brieg (1547–1586) (d. 1586) September 21 – Sancho d'Avila, Spanish general (d. 1583) September 22 – Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon, French church leader and pretender to the throne (d. 1590) October 10 – Ludwig Rabus, German martyrologist (d. 1592) October 11 – Eleonore of Fürstenberg, wife of Philip IV, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (d. 1544) October 18 – Anna Jagiellon, daughter of Sigismund I of Poland (d. 1596) date unknown Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist and physician (d. 1562) Martín Cortés, Spanish conquistador (d. 1589) Francisco Foreiro, Portuguese Dominican theologian and biblist (d. 1581) Gaspara Stampa, Italian poet (d. 1554) probable – Crispin van den Broeck, Flemish painter (d. 1591) possible – Catherine Howard, fifth queen of Henry VIII of England, (b. between 1518 and 1524; executed 1542) Deaths February 4 – Thomas Ruthall, English chancellor of the University of Cambridge March 28 – Louis I, Count of Löwenstein, founder of the House of Löwenstein-Wertheim (b. 1463) April 6 – Henry Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English nobleman (b. 1479) May 7 Antonio Grimani, Italian admiral (b. 1434) Franz von Sickingen, German knight (b. 1481) May 23 – Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shōgun (b. 1466) May 24 – Henry Marney, 1st Baron Marney, English politician (b. 1447) July 1 – Johann Esch and Heinrich Voes, Flemish Lutheran martyrs July 7 – Wijerd Jelckama, Frisian rebel and warlord (b. 1490) August 13 – Gerard David, Flemish artist (b. c. 1455) August 27 – Domenico Grimani, Italian nobleman (b. 1461) August 29 – Ulrich von Hutten, Lutheran reformer (b. 1488) September 14 – Pope Adrian VI (b. 1459) October 5 – Bogislaw X, Duke of Pomerania (1474–1523) (b. 1454) October 11 – Bartolomeo Montagna, Italian painter (b. 1450) November 10 – Lachlan Cattanach Maclean, 11th Chief, Scottish clan chief (b. 1465) October – William Cornysh, English composer (b. 1465) date unknown Cecilia Månsdotter, Swedish noble (b. c. 1476) Alessandro Alessandri, Italian jurist (b. 1461) Pietro Perugino, Italian painter (b. 1446) References