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1550 deaths

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Portuguese soldier turned health-care worker, canonized by the Catholic Church (1495–1550)

Gian Giorgio Trissino

Italian Renaissance humanist

Wilhelm IV, Duke of Bavaria

Duke of Bavaria

Italian jurist and writer (1492–1550)

Claude of Lorraine, duke of Guise

Pieter Coecke van Aelst

Flemish painter painter, sculptor, architect, author and designer of woodcuts, goldsmith's work, stained glass and tapestries (1502–1550)

Francesco III Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua

Roman Catholic bishop

Hans Sebald Beham

German artist (1500-1550)

Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg

Duke of Württemberg, 1498-1519 and 1534-1550

Ashikaga Yoshiharu

12th shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate of Japan (1521–1546)

Tabin-shwë-hti ( ; , ; 16 April 1516 – 30 April 1550), also called Black Tongue (လျှာနက်မင်း), was King of Burma from 1530 to 1550, and the founder of the First Toungoo Empire. His military campaigns (1534–1549) created the largest kingdom in Burma since the fall of the Pagan Empire in 1287. His administratively fragile kingdom proved to be the impetus for the eventual reunification of the entire country by his successor and brother-in-law Bayinnaung.

Veronica Gambara

Italian poet and stateswoman

Isabel Moctezuma

1509-1550 daughter of Moctezuma II and Teotlalco

Françoise d'Alençon

Spouse of Charles, Duke of Vendôme

German artist (1500-1550)

Ambrosius Benson

Italian painter (c.1500-1550)

Safavid prince, governor and military officer

Jean, Cardinal of Lorraine

Catholic cardinal (1498-1550)

Italian Catholic cardinal and archbishop

Scottish philosopher

Ferdinand, Duke of Calabria

Duke of Calabria

Niccolò Ridolfi

Catholic cardinal

Spanish artist (c.1490-1550)

Louis of Valois

Niccolò Tribolo

Italian artist (1500-1550)

Tiedemann Giese

Roman Catholic bishop

Magnus III, Duke of Mecklenburg

Member of the House of Mecklenburg, Prince-Bishop of Schwerin

Jorge de Lencastre, 2nd Duke of Coimbra

2nd Duke of Coimbra, son of D. João II

Marcantonio Flaminio

Italian humanist

Philippe de la Chambre

Catholic cardinal

Gregório Lopes

Portuguese artist (1490-1550)

Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno

Italian philosopher and rabbi

Jamsheed Quli Qutb Shah

2nd Ruler of the Sultanate of Golkonda

Raghunatha Siromani

Indian philosopher

Jacopo Bonfadio

Italian humanist and historian

Georges II d'Amboise

Catholic archbishop

Gérard Roussel

Francesco Sfondrati

Italian cardinal

Aq Kubek of Astrakhan

ruler of Astrakhan Khanate

Nicholas Kratzer

German astronomer

Gevhermülük Sultan

ottoman princess, daughter of Cem Sultan

Margery Wentworth

French composer

Giovanni Maria Francesco Rondani

Italian painter (1490-1550)

Yokota Takatoshi

Samurai of the Sengoku period who served the Takeda clan

Samuel Maciejowski

Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton

English earl (1505-1550)

Wali Sanga of Java

Bartolomé Ferrer

Spanish explorer

Nicolas Perrenot de Granvelle

French diplomat

Italian mathematician and astronomer

Shams al-Din al-Khafri

Persian astronomer

Johannes Petreius

German printer (1497–1550)

Matthias Greitter

German priest, cantor and composer

Subhan Quli Qutb Shah

3rd Sultan of Golconda

Lasses Birgitta

Alleged Swedish witch

Adrian of Poshekhonye

Monk and iconographer

George of Polentz

bishop of Samland and Pomesania; lawyer and the first Protestant Bishop

Anna of Pomerania, Duchess of Lubin

German noblewoman