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Events
Births
- January 26 - Florent Chrestien , French writer (d. 1596 )
- March 25 - Francesco I De' Medici, Grand Duke Of Tuscany (died 1587 )
- April 8 - Michele Mercati , Italian physician and gardener (died 1593 )
- Pierre Charron , French philosopher (died 1603 )
- Walter Devereux, 1st Earl Of Essex , English nobleman (died 1576 )
- painter, sculptor and architect (died 1614 )
- Hatano Hideharu , Japanese samurai (died 1579 )
- Mizuno Tadashige , Japanese nobleman (died 1600 )
- Guðbrandur Þorláksson , mathematician
- Hattori Hanzo , Ninja who served under Tokugawa Ieyasu
Deaths
- May 27 - Margaret Pole, 8th Countess Of Salisbury (executed) (born 1473 )
- June 26 - Francisco Pizarro , Spanish conquistador
- July 4 - Pedro De Alvarado , Spanish conquistador (born 1495 )
- August 1 - Simon Grynaeus , German scholar and theologian (born 1493 )
- September 24 - Paracelsus , Swiss alchemist (b. 1493 )
- November 24 - Margaret Tudor , queen of James IV Of Scotland (born 1489 )
- Francisco Alvarez , Portuguese missionary and explorer (born 1465 )
- Wolfgang Fabricius Capito , German reformer
- Jean Clouet , French miniature painter
- Thomas Culpeper , English courtier
- Giovanni Guidiccioni , Italian poet (born 1480 )
- Andreas Karlstadt , Christian theologian and reformer
- Gendun Gyatso, 2nd Dalai Lama
- Jerzy Radziwill , Polish nobleman (born 1480 )
- Amago Tsunehisa , Japanese warlord
- Juan De Valdés , Spanish religious writer (born 1500 )
''See also .''
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