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| align="center" colspan=2 | 1500s 1510s - 1520s ''' - 1530s 1540s 1550s
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| align="center" | - 16th Century ''' - 17th Century
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Events
Births
- March 3 - Matthias Flacius , Croatian protestant reformer (d. 1575 )
- August 1 - King Sigismund II Augustus Of Poland (died 1572 )
- August 10 - Madeleine De Valois , queen of James V Of Scotland (died 1537 )
- September 13 - William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley , English statesman (died 1598 )
- October 5 - Alessandro Cardinal Farnese , Italian cardinal (d. 1589 )
- Choi Hyong Ung , Korean monk
- Jean Ribault , French navigator (died 1565 )
- Vincenzo Galilei , Italian music theorist, lutenist, and composer (died 1591 )
- Aben Humeya , last independent king of Granada (died 1568 )
- Bess Of Hardwick , jailor of Mary I Of Scotland (died 1608 )
- Denis Lambin , French classical scholar (died 1572 )
- Frans Floris , Flemish painter (died 1570 )
- Giovanni Battista Moroni , Italian mannerist painter (died 1578 )
- Hans Eworth , Flemish portrait painter (died 1574 )
- Ijuin Tadaaki , Japanese nobleman
- Jacques Cujas , French legal expert (died 1590 )
- Johannes Acronius Frisius , German doctor and mathematician (died 1564 )
- Jorge De Montemayor , Spanish novelist and poet (died 1561 )
- Leonard Digges , mathematician and surveyor
- Sigismund II Of Poland (died 1572 )
- William Somerset, 3rd Earl Of Worcester (died 1589 )
Deaths
- February 5 - Sten Sture The Younger , Viceroy of Sweden (born 1493 )
- April 6 - Raphael , Italian painter and architect (born 1483 )
- June 24 - Hosokawa Sumimoto , Japanese samurai commander (born 1489 )
- September 22 - Selim I , Ottoman Sultan (born 1465 )
- Cacamatzin , king of Texcoco
- Cuitláhuac , Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan
- Filippo De Lurano , Italian composer (born 1475 )
- Jan Lubranski , Polish bishop (born 1456 )
- Moctezuma II , Aztec ruler
- Raphael Urbinas , Italian artist
- Sheikh Hamdullah , calligrapher (born 1436 )
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