Jewish rabbi and mystic (d. 1620) Chen Lin, Ming Dynasty general (d. 1607) probable Giovanni Maria Nanino, Italian composer (d. 1607) Federico Zuccari, Italian painter (d. 1609) Deaths January 2 – Francesco Canova da Milano, Italian composer (b. 1497) January 3 – Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, Portuguese explorer (b. 1499) January 9 – Guillaume du Bellay, French diplomat and general (b. 1491) February 13 – Johann Eck, German Scholastic theologian (b. 1486) February 21 – Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi, Imam of Adal (in battle) (b. c. 1506) March 2 – John Neville, 3rd Baron Latimer, English politician (b. 1493) March 6 – Baccio D'Agnolo, Florentine woodcarver (b. 1460) April 23 – Susanna of Bavaria, German noble, House of Wittelsbach (b. 1502) May 24 – Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish mathematician and astronomer (b. 1473) June 27 – Agnolo Firenzuola, Italian poet (b. 1493) July 19 – Mary Boleyn, English courtier, mistress of Kings Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England (b. 1500) August 1 – Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, German noble (b. 1470) August 29 – Maria of Jülich-Berg, German duchess, Spouse of John III, Duke of Cleves (b. 1491) September 2 – Sultan Quli Qutb Mulk, founder of the Qutb Shahi dynasty of Golconda (b. 1470) September 20 – Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland (b. 1492) September 23 – Johanna of Hachberg-Sausenberg, countess regnant of Neuchatel (b. 1485) November 29 – Hans Holbein the Younger, German artist, active in England December 27 – George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (b. 1484) December 29 – Maria Salviati, Italian noble (b. 1499) December 30 – Gian Matteo Giberti, Italian Catholic bishop (b. 1495) date unknown Polidoro da Caravaggio, Italian painter (b. 1492; murdered) Madeleine Lartessuti, French shipper and banker (b. 1478) Al-Mutawakkil III, last caliph of the Cairo-based Abbasid caliphate Sehzade Mehmed, Ottoman prince (b. 1521) probable Sebastian Franck, German freethinker (b. 1515) Margaret Lee, English courtier, sister of poet Thomas Wyatt (b. 1506) References