Year ( MDXXIV ) was a Leap Year Starting On Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian Calendar .
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- February 10 - Albrecht Giese , German politician and diplomat (died 1580 )
- February 17 - Charles Of Guise , French cardinal (d. 1574 )
- March 17 - Diego De Landa , Bishop of the Yucatán (died 1579 )
- May 28 - Selim II , Ottoman Sultan (died 1574 )
- August 23 - François Hotman , French Protestant lawyer and writer (died 1590 )
- September 7 - Thomas Erastus , Swiss theologian (died 1583 )
- September 11 - Pierre De Ronsard , French poet (died 1585 )
- ''date unknown''
- --- Jan Borukowski , royal secretary of Poland (died 1584 )
- --- Armand De Gontaut, Baron De Biron , French soldier (died 1592 )
- --- Azai Hisamasa , Japanese warlord (died 1573 )
- --- Jean Pithou , French lawyer and author (died 1602 ); and his twin brother, Nicolas Pithou , French lawyer and author (died 1598 )
- --- Thomas Tusser , English poet and farmer (died 1580 )
: ''See also .''
- January 5 - Marko Marulic , Croatian poet (born 1450 )
- April 30 - Pierre Terrail, Seigneur De Bayard , French soldier (b. 1473 )
- May 21 - Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke Of Norfolk , English soldier and statesman (born 1443 )
- May 23 - Ismail I , Shah Of Persia (born 1487 )
- June 12 - Diego Velázquez De Cuéllar , Spanish conquistador (born 1465 )
- July 20 - Claude Of France , queen of Louis XII Of France (born 1499 )
- August 24 - William Scott Of Scott's Hall , Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
- October 5 - Joachim Patinir , Flemish painter (born c 1480 )
- December 20 - Thomas Linacre , English humanist and physician (born 1460 )
- December 24 - Vasco Da Gama , Portuguese explorer (born c 1469 )
- ''date unknown''
- --- Hans Holbein The Elder , German painter (born 1460 )
- --- Andrea Solari , Italian painter (born 1460 )
- --- Tang Yin , Chinese painter (born 1470 )
: ''See also .''
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