1542 deaths

Spanish explorer and conquistador

King of Scotland from 1513 to 1542

fifth wife of Henry VIII of England

subject of the Mona Lisa

English poet and diplomat (1503-1542)

Dalai Lama of Tibet (1476-1542)

Italian painter; (c.1490-1542)

Spanish poet

German inventor and watchmaker (1485–1510)

Flemish draughtsman, painter (c.1488-1541)

sister-in-law of King Henry VIII of England

Italian dramatist

Catholic cardinal and Bishop of Belluno

Indian poet

Elder of Spaso-Eleazar Monastery near Pskov (died 1542)

Cardinal and scholar (1480-1542)

German conquistador

son of Spanish conquistador Diego de Almagro

Portuguese soldier in Ethiopia

Ruler of a Vijayanagara Empire of South India

Russian Orthodox saint and wife of Grand Prince Vasili III of Muscovy

Swiss reformer

Italian painter (1484-1542)

cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church

Flemish grammarian

Italian cardinal

Spanish artist

illegitimate daughter of Cosimo I de' Medici

Dutch mathematician and theologian

Illegitimate son of King Edward IV of England

daimyo of the Sengoku period

German artist

German writer (1481-1542)

Italian poet (1453–1542)

German engraver (c.1491-1542)

Lithuanian noble

Founded the Capuchin Poor Clares

Italian condottiero

Italian cardinal

Fuman (; ; died 1542) was Chieftain of the Jianzhou Jurchens and an ancestor of the future Qing dynasty emperors. His father was Sibeoci Fiyanggū. His family name was Aisin Gioro (愛新覺羅).

German typographer and publisher, c. 1470-1549

samurai

Polish diplomat (1496-1541)

English Earl

German Reformer & hymnwriter (1496–1542)

Pomeranian historian

French humanist scholar

Spanish duke

Dutch historian (1482-1542)

daughter of Martin Luther

Spanish writer (1474-1542)

Persian physician

Spanish conquistador

Lithuanian noble

concubine of Jiajing Emperor

Italian painter (1480-1542)

Indian monarch

Iranian philosopher

Hardwin von Grätz (), better known in English as Ortwin (; 1475 – 22 May 1542), was a German humanist scholar and theologian.

Grandee of Spain