1520 deaths

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (; March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), now generally known in English as Raphael ( , ), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.

9th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1512 to 1520

Portuguese military commander and explorer (c.1467/8 – c.1521)

9th tlatoani of Tenochtitlan and ruler of the Aztec Triple Alliance (1466-1520)

German cartographer

Cuitláhuac (, ) (c. 1476 – 1520) (in Spanish orthography; , , honorific form: Cuitlahuatzin) was the 10th Huey Tlatoani (emperor) of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan for 80 days during the year Two Flint (1520). He is credited with leading the resistance to the Spanish and Tlaxcalteca conquest of the Mexica Empire, following the death of his kinsman Moctezuma II.

Frisian warrior, pirate, and rebel

Regent of Sweden (1493-1520)

Archduchess of Austria (1465-1520)

Italian banker

Catholic cardinal

Italian cardinal and playwright

Regent of the Republic of Firenze (1472-1520)

Korean philosopher (1482-1520)

Ottomon civil servant

Spanish explorer and cartographer

Serbian saint and Albanian noblewoman

Catholic Archbishop; illegitimate child of Ferdinand II of Aragon (1470-1520)

Ottoman calligrapher (1436–1520)

French Roman Catholic cardinal

poet and Renaissance humanist from Dubrovnik (1463-1520)

Islamic scholar

Iranian artist and calligrapher (1435–1519)

Cacamatzin (or Cacama) (c. 1483–1520) was the tlatoani (ruler) of Texcoco, the second most important city of the Aztec Empire.

Roman Catholic cardinal

Spanish explorer

Father of King Gustav I of Sweden

Visoun (Vixoun also Visunarat or Vixounarath) was the king of Lan Xang from 1500 until 1520. He was the seventh son of King Sai Tia Kaphut, King of Lan Xang. He was appointed as Governor of Vientiane in 1480 and as Chief Minister with the title of Phya Sena Muang in 1491 with the reign name of Visoun (Lightning). He served as Regent for his minor nephew from 1495 to 1497. He deposed his nephew and was proclaimed as King in 1500. He ascended the throne and was crowned King in 1501. His reign was prosperous and peaceful with a large number of shrines and monuments being constructed, including th

Croatian nobleman

Flemish humanist

French archbishop and author (1450-1520)

Mevlânâ Mehmed Neşri (born c. 1450 – died circa 1520), also commonly referred to as Neshri (), was an Ottoman historian, a prominent representative of early Ottoman historiography.

Spanish artist

Czech lawyer and writer

Spanish explorer

German theologian (1457-1520)

French nobleman

Italian condottiero (1470-1520)

Japanese samurai

French printer (1460–1520)

Spanish bishop

Austrian artist (1460–1520)

Prince-Bishop of Breslau (1464/66-1520)

Italian historian (1434–1520)

Spanish Marine

Italian painter (1477-1520)

Swedish politician

Spanish courtier and ambassador

Bosnian Franciscan theologian and philosopher

Italian metallurgist and alchemist

German writer (1450-1520)

Secret wife of the Elector Palatine Frederick I (c. 1440–1520)

Italian Roman Catholic aristocrat

Polish bishop

Dutch noble

Tlapalizquixochtzin was an Aztec noblewoman and Queen regnant of the Aztec city of Ecatepec. She was also a consort of Moctezuma II.

raja of Kantipur

(1462-1520)