1530s deaths

Chess player and theorist

Spanish composer, and theater artist

16th-century Italian engraver and printmaker (1480–1534)

Bartolomeo Suardi ( – ) was an Italian painter and architect, mainly active in his native Milan.

Italian metallurgist

Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad, commonly known as Khvandamir (, also spelled Khwandamir; 1475/76–1535/36) was a Persian historian who was active in the Timurid, Safavid and Mughal empires. He is principally known for his Persian universal history, the Habib al-siyar (The beloved of careers), which was regarded by both the Safavids and Mughals as their first official court account.

French composer

Imposter-pretender to the throne of England

Italian painter (1480s-1555)

Italian composer

Japanese painter (1434-1530)

French painter (1470-1534)

16th century European writer

Spanish writer

priest and Latin-language poet

Ukrainian Cossack leader

Flemish Renaissance painter (1460-1533)

Portuguese sailor and navigator

Flemish scholar

German artist (1490-1534)

Spanish writer

Chief Donnacona (died 1539 in France) was the chief of the St. Lawrence Iroquois village of Stadacona, located at the present site of Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. French explorer Jacques Cartier, concluding his second voyage to what is now Canada, kidnapped Donnacona along with nine other Iroquois captives, and brought them to France, where Donnacona died. Later Cartier would make a third voyage to the same area.

Spanish writer

Flemish composer

Danish Government minister

Ottoman admiral

16th-century Italian sculptor (1502–1537)

Flemish painter

Italian painter (1465-1535)

Portuguese explorer

German astrologer

Roman Catholic bishop

Franciscan friar and theologian (ca 1480 - ca 1535)

Notname given to an anonymous painter active in the Southern Netherlands in the early 16th century

German sculptor (1480–1531)

Italian composer and publisher

Stained glass artist from the Northern Netherlands

jurist

Spanish colonial administrator

- Aft 1529