Deaths
- January 2 – Pontormo, Italian painter (b. 1494)
- January 8 – Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach ("Albert the Warlike"), Prince of Bayreuth (b. 1522)
- April 9 – Mikael Agricola, Finnish scholar (b. c. 1510)
- April 21 – Petrus Apianus, German astronomer (b. 1495)
- June 11 – King John III of Portugal (b. 1502)
- July 8 (date of will) – Geoffrey Glyn, by his will founding Friars School, Bangor
- July 16 – Anne of Cleves, Fourth Queen of Henry VIII of England (b. 1515)
- August 1 – Olaus Magnus, Swedish ecclesiastic and writer (b. 1490)
- August 18 – Claude de la Sengle, 48th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1494)
- September 1 – Jacques Cartier, French explorer (b. 1491)
- September 13 – John Cheke, English classical scholar and statesman (b. 1514)
- September 27 – Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (b. 1497)
- October 5 or October 6 – Kamran Mirza, Mughal prince (b. 1509)
- October 25 – William Cavendish, English courtier (b. 1505)
- November 19 – Bona Sforza, queen of Sigismund I of Poland (b. 1494)
- December 13 – Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia, Italian mathematician (b. 1499)
- date unknown
- Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Spanish historian (b. 1478)
- Nicolas de Herberay des Essarts, French translator
- Jean Salmon Macrin, French poet (b. 1490)
- probable
- Sebastian Cabot, explorer (b. 1476)
- Thomas Crecquillon, Flemish composer (b. 1490)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)