1540s deaths

Italian Renaissance painter (1477-1549)

Portuguese explorer and diplomat

Flemish-French Renaissance portrait painter, drawer and miniaturist (1480-1541)

Italian poet

Ruler of the Kingdom of Kongo from 1509 to 1542/43

German-Swiss composer

German Renaissance humanist

16th-century Portuguese merchant of Lisbon

Italian painter (1480-1548)

Portuguese cartographer

flemish painter (1490-1546)

Italian painter (c.1470-c.1540)

Italian composer, music theorist

16th century Portuguese missionary and explorer

Northern Renaissance painter (1500-1542)

French noble

Spanish painter (1475-1545)

Italian painter (1490–1540)

Navigator, explorer and corsair

Polish music theorist and composer

architect

Spanish Franciscan friar and author

Portuguese Renaissance painter (1475-1542)

Italian writer and critic (1489-1546)

Italian painter (1470-1540)

Italian painter (1486-1542)

Ukrainian saint of the Eastern Orthodox Church

third son of King Constantine II of Georgia, founder of the House of Mukhrani, and author of a Christian apology critical of Islam

Italian composer

Italian painter (1502–1548)

Italian ceramicist

Portuguese artist (-1540 ca.)

French poet

Swiss chronicler

German painter and engraver

Italian sculptor (1485-1548)

Italian painter (1480-1538)

Baroness Monteagle

French poet

German painter and engraver (1490-1540)

Mistress of James IV of Scotland

Italian painter (1485-1554)

Keliʻiokaloa (c. 1500–c. 1545) was the Aliʻi Nui of the island of Hawaiʻi from c. 1525 to c. 1545. He was the sovereign king or chief of the island of Hawaiʻi.