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| align="center" colspan=2 | Years: 1512 1513 1514 - '''1515''' - 1516 1517 1518
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| align="center" colspan=2 | 1490s 1500s - 1510s ''' - 1520s 1530s 1540s
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| align="center" | - 16th Century ''' - 17th Century
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1515 was a Common Year Starting On Friday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar .
Events
Year in topics
Births
- March 28 - Saint Teresa Of Avila , Spanish Carmelite nun and poet (died 1582 )
- July 21 - Philip Neri , Italian churchman (died 1595 )
- September 8 - Alfonso Salmeron , Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar (died 1585 )
- September 22 - Anne Of Cleves , fourth queen of Henry VIII Of England (died 1557 )
- October 4 - Lucas Cranach The Younger , German painter (died 1586 )
- October 8 - Margaret Douglas , Countess of Lennox (died 1578 )
- November 22 - Mary Of Guise , queen of James V Of Scotland and regent of Scotland (died 1560 )
- Cristobal Acosta , Portuguese doctor and natural historian (died 1580 )
- Sebastian Castello , rector of the College of Geneva (died 1563 )
- Valerius Cordus , German physician (died 1544 )
- Sebastian Franck , German freethinker (died 1543 )
- Pierre De La Ramée , French humanist scholar (died 1572 )
- Mikolaj Czarny Radziwill , Polish magnate (died 1565 )
- Cypriano De Rore , Flemish composer and teacher (died 1565 )
- Thomas Seckford , Master of Requests for Elizabeth I of England (died 1587 )
- John Sheppard , English composer and organist (died 1560 )
- Francisco De Toledo, Count Of Oropesa , (died 1584 )
- Johann Weyer , German physician (died 1588 )
Deaths
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