Deaths
- 1540
- 28 July - Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, statesman (executed) (born c. 1485)
- 30 July - Thomas Abel, priest (martyred) (born c. 1497)
- 30 July - Robert Barnes, reformer (martyred) (born 1495)
- Elizabeth Blount, mistress of King Henry VIII (born 1502)
- 1541
- 27 May - Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury (executed) (born 1473)
- 24 November - Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII and queen of James IV of Scotland (born 1489)
- 10 December - Thomas Culpeper, courtier (executed) (year of birth unknown)
- 1542
- 13 February - Catherine Howard, fifth wife of King Henry VIII (executed) (born c. 1522)
- 3 March - Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle, illegitimate son of King Edward IV (year of birth unknown 1461–1475)
- 6 October - Thomas Wyatt, poet and diplomat (born 1503)
- 1543
- 19 July - Mary Boleyn, mistress of Kings Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England (born 1500)
- 20 September - Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland (born 1492)
- Margaret Lee, lady-in-waiting, sister of poet Thomas Wyatt (born 1506)
- 1544
- 30 April - Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden, Lord Chancellor (born 1488)
- 1545
- 24 August - Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, politician and husband of Mary Tudor (born c. 1484)
- 18 October - John Taverner, composer (born c. 1490)
- William Latimer, churchman and scholar (born c. 1467)
- Agnes Howard, Duchess of Norfolk, noblewoman (born c. 1477)
- 1546
- 26 March - Thomas Elyot, diplomat and scholar (born c. 1490)
- 16 July - Anne Askew, Protestant (burned at the stake) (born 1521)
- 1547
- 19 January - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, poet (born 1517)
- 28 January - King Henry VIII (born 1491)
- Edward Hall, chronicler and lawyer (born 1498)
- 1548
- 7 September - Catherine Parr, queen of Henry VIII (born c. 1512)
- 1549
- 10 March - Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, politician and diplomat (born 1508)
- April - Andrew Boorde, traveller (born 1490)
- 15 April - Henry Somerset, Earl of Worcester (born 1496)
- 7 December - Robert Kett, rebel (executed) (year of birth unknown)
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