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Year ( MDXLII ) was a Common Year Starting On Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian Calendar .
- March 19 - Jan Zamoyski , Polish nobleman (died 1605 )
- June 6 - Richard Grenville , Elizabethan soldier and explorer (died 1591 )
- June 24 - St. John Of The Cross , Spanish Carmelite friar and poet (died 1591 )
- October 4 - Robert Bellarmine , Italian saint (d. 1621 )
- October 15 - Akbar, Jellaladin Mahommed , Mughal Emperor (died 1605 )
- December 8 - Queen Mary I Of Scotland (died 1587 )
- ''date unknown''
- --- Toda Kazuaki , samurai in the service of Tokugawa Ieyasu (died 1604 )
- --- John Speed , historian (died 1629 )
- --- Horio Yoshiharu , Japanese daimyo (died 1611 )
- --- Kuki Yoshitaka , Japanese naval commander (died 1600 )
: ''See also .''
- February - Nikolaus Federmann , German adventurer in Venezuela and Colombia (born 1501 )
- February 1 - Girolamo Aleandro , Italian cardinal (born 1480 )
- February 13 - Catherine Howard , fifth wife of Henry VIII Of England (executed) (born c 1522 )
- March 3 - Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle , illegitimate son of King Edward IV of England
- May 21 - Hernando De Soto , Spanish explorer, navigator and conquistador (born c 1500 )
- June 19 - Leo Jud , Swiss reformer (born 1482 )
- July 15 - Lisa Gherardini , believed to be the model for the '' Mona Lisa ''
- August 24 - Gasparo Contarini , Italian diplomat and cardinal (born 1483 )
- August 29 - Cristovão Da Gama , Portuguese soldier (born c. 1516 )
- September 21 - Juan Boscán Almogáver , Spanish poet (born c 1490 )
- October 6 - Thomas Wyatt , English poet and diplomat (born 1503 )
- December 14 - King James V Of Scotland (born 1512 )
- ''date unknown''
- --- Dosso Dossi , Italian painter (born 1490 )
- --- Lucas Fernández , Spanish dramatist and musician (born c 1474 )
- --- Lapu-Lapu , Filipino warrior (born 1491 )
: ''See also .''
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