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1537 deaths

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third wife of Henry VIII of England

Lorenzo di Credi

Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor (c.1459-1537)

Alessandro de' Medici

Duke of Florence (1510-1537)

Pedro de Mendoza

Spanish conquistador

Madeleine of Valois

Scottish royal consort

Charles, Duke of Vendôme

Gerolamo Emiliani

Italian humanitarian and saint

Bahadur Shah of Gujarat

Sultan of Gujarat

Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland

German writer (1475-1537)

Jörg Breu the Elder

German painter (c. 1475–1537)

Jorge de Menezes

Portuguese explorer

Robert III de La Marck

Marshal of France

Françoise de Foix

Mistress of the King of France

İslâm I Giray

Khan of Crimea for five months in 1532

Austrian organist and composer

Spanish conquistador and explorer

Bartolommeo Berrecci

Italian architect (1480–1537)

Nikolaus von Schönberg

Catholic cardinal

Giovanni Piccolomini

Catholic cardinal

German Renaissance painter (1513-1537)

Croatian nobleman and soldier

Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare

Deposed Queen Sin

wife and Queen Consort of King Yeonsangun of Joseon, the 10th monarch of the Joseon Dynasty

French botanist (1474-1537)

Agostino Spinola

Italian priest (1482-1537)

Andrzej Krzycki

Polish archbishop

Spanish architect

Alfonso Lombardi

Italian artist (1497-1537)

German woodcut artist (1495–1536)

Jürgen Wullenwever

Mayor of Lubeck (1488-1537)

Sophie of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach

German princess

Louis II d'Orléans, Duke of Longueville

Andrey of Staritsa

Youngest son of Ivan the Great by Sophia of Byzantium

Andrea Matteo Palmieri

Italian cardinal

Jean de La Forêt

First French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, 1534 to 1537

Paolo Emilio Cesi

Italian cardinal

Korean general and admiral, politicians

Antonio Tebaldeo

Vikramaditya Singh

ruler of Mewar Kingdom

Lorenzo Leonbruno

Italian painter (1480-1537)

Francesco Galigai

Italian mathematician (1498-1537)

Rodrigo Luis de Borja y de Castre-Pinós

Spanish cardinal

Mauritius Ferber

Prince-Bishop of Warmia

Francesco of Saluzzo

Marquess of Saluzzo

Johannes ab Indagine

astrologer, 1467-1537

Chinese empress (Ming dynasty)

Gaspar de Espinosa

Abdul Quddus Gangohi

Indian Islamic scholar and sofi

Manuel, Prince of Portugal

Portuguese prince

Lord of Edo Castle and enemy of the Hōjō clan

Tisquesusa, also spelled Thisquesuza, Thysquesuca, or Thisquesusha, referred to in the earliest sources as Bogotá, the Elder, (died Facatativá, 1537) was the fourth and last independent ruler (psihipqua) of Muyquytá, main settlement of the southern Muisca between 1514 and his death in 1537. The Spanish pronunciation of his name brought about the Colombian capital Bogotá. Tisquesusa was the ruler of the southern Muisca Confederation at the time of the Spanish conquest of the Muisca, when the troops led by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada and his brother entered the central Andean highlands.

John, Hereditary Prince of Saxony

Elizabeth Lucar

English calligrapher (1510–1537)

Joseon civil servant (Kim An-ro (1481 –1537)

Ottmar Luscinius

German humanist

Diego Ramírez de Fuenleal

Spanish chaplain