Births
- January 25 – Maximilian Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1530)
- March 15 – Anne de Montmorency, Constable of France (d. 1567)
- June 5 – Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (d. 1555)
- September 28 – Agnolo Firenzuola, Italian poet (d. c. 1545)
- October 14 – Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (d. 1568)
- November 11 (or December 17 – Paracelsus, Swiss physician and scientist (d. 1541)
- November 12 – Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Italian artist and sculptor (d. 1560)
- date unknown
- Simon Grynaeus, German scholar and theologian (d. 1541)
- Takeda Nobutora, Japanese warlord (d. 1573)
- Matsudaira Shigeyoshi, Japanese general (d. 1580)
- probable
- Jean du Bellay, French cardinal and diplomat (d. 1560)
- Robert Maxwell, 5th Lord Maxwell, Scottish statesman (d. 1546)
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