1538 deaths

German painter (1480–1538)

Spanish conquistador

Doge of Venice (1455-1539)

Emperor of the Songhai empire

second wife of Grand Prince Vasili III

Portuguese noble (1505-1538)

English noble (1480-1538)

French writer

Italian noble

Duke of Guelders and Count of Zutphen from 1492 to 1538

French bible translator

prince-bishop of Liège, Belgium

Khan of Crimea (r. 1524–32)

Portuguese cartographer and explorer (c. 1483–1538)

Baron of Breda

Catholic cardinal

French noble

English nobleman (1498-1538)

German Renaissance composer (1483-1538)

archbishop

Italian philosopher

Catholic cardinal and Spanish inquisitor

Spanish count (1465-1538)

English Earl (1468-1538)

Flamish historian

English Franciscan friar and martyr (1471–1538)

Bishop of Poznań and illegitimate son of Sigismund I the Old, King of Poland

Italian banker (1489-1538)

48th Archbishop of Regensburg

Counts of Stolberg-Wernigerode (1467-1538)

English judge, scholar and legal author

Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg

Polish bishop

Quemuenchatocha or Quimuinchateca (named in the earliest sources Eucaneme) (Hunza, 1472–Ramiriquí, 1538) was the second-last hoa of Hunza, currently known as Tunja, as of 1490. He was the ruler of the northern Muisca when the Spanish conquistadores arrived in the Muisca highlands. His contemporary enemy psihipquas of the southern Muisca were successively Nemequene and Bogotá.

Italian typographer and publisher (fl. 1483-1538)

cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church

the last Sultan of the Hussain Shahi dynasty of Bengal

Grandmother of William the Silent

Greek scholar (ca 1468-1535)

Italian painter (1490-1538)

Swedish bishop

spouse of Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1538)

Italian scientist

Chinese painter (1464-1538)

Japanese martial artist

French humanist scholar and poet

Spanish general and explorer

British theologian