Births
- January 17 – Pope Pius V (d. 1572)
- April 16 – Shaun Drennan (d. 1586)
- July 18 – Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (d. 1575)
- August 6 – Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1574)
- November – Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian novelist and poet (d. 1573)
- November 13 – Philipp I of Hesse (d. 1567)
- date unknown
- Ali ibn Ahmad al-Samhudi (علي بن أحمد السمهودي), author of Wafa al-Wafa bi akhbar Dar al-Mustafa
- John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, Tudor nobleman and politician (d. 1553)
- Patrick Hamilton, Scottish churchman and Reformer (d. 1528)
- Dirk Philips, early Anabaptist writer and theologian (d. 1568)
- Nicholas Udall, English playwright and schoolmaster (d. 1556)
- probable – Jacques Arcadelt, Franco-Flemish composer (d. 1568)
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