Year ( MDXLV ) was a Common Year Starting On Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian Calendar .
- March 2 - Thomas Bodley , English diplomat and library founder (died 1613 )
- April 2 - Elizabeth Of Valois , queen of Philip II Of Spain (died 1568 )
- April 28 - Yi Sun-sin , Korean naval leader (died 1598 )
- July 8 - Don Carlos Of Spain , son of Philip II Of Spain (died 1568 )
- August 1 - Andrew Melville , Scottish theologian and religious reformer (died 1622 )
- August 27 - Alexander Farnese, Duke Of Parma (died 1592 )
- December 7 - Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley , consort of Mary I Of Scotland (died 1567 )
- ''date unknown''
- --- George Bannatyne , collector of Scottish poems (died 1608 )
- --- John Field , British Puritan clergyman and controversialist (died 1588 )
- --- John Gerard , English botanist (died 1612 )
- --- William Morgan , Welsh Bible translator (died 1604 )
- --- Asai Nagamasa , Japanese nobleman (died 1572 )
- --- Mashita Nagamori , Japanese warlord (died 1615 )
- ''probable''
- --- Nicholas Breton , English poet and novelist (died 1626 )
- --- Joris Hoefnagel , Dutch painter and engraver (died 1601 )
- --- Lady Douglas Sheffield , lover of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl Of Leicester (died 1608 )
- January 16 - George Spalatin , German reformer (born 1484 )
- April 3 - Antonio De Guevara , Spanish chronicler and moralist (born 1481 )
- April 10 - Costanzo Festa , Italian composer (born 1495 )
- April 22 - Louis X, Duke Of Bavaria (born 1496 )
- June 12 - Francis I, Duke Of Lorraine (born 1517 )
- July 7 - Pernette Du Guillet , poet (born c.1520)
- August 24 - Charles Brandon, 1st Duke Of Suffolk , English politician and husband of Mary Tudor (born c. 1484 )
- August 27 - Piotr Gamrat , Polish Catholic archbishop (born 1487 )
- September - Hans Baldung , German artist (born 1480 )
- September 24 - Albert Of Mainz , elector and archbishop of Mainz (born 1490 )
- October 18 - John Taverner , English composer (born c. 1490 )
- ''date unknown''
- --- William Latimer , English churchman and scholar (born c. 1467 )
- --- Fernão Lopez , Portuguese renegade
- --- Agnes Howard, Duchess Of Norfolk , Englsh noblewoman (born c. 1477 )
- --- Stanisław Odrowąż , Polish noble (born 1509 )
- --- Sher Shah Suri , Indian ruler (born 1486 )
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