1550s deaths

Turkish admiral and cartographer

Andalusian author

Nahua woman who was the interpreter, advisor, and intermediary to Hernán Cortés

Ruthenian humanist, bible translator and book printer

Venetian explorer and mapmaker in the service of Spain and England

Eastern Orthodox Church Saint

Greek monk and scholar

Italian writer and fairy tale collector

16th-century Flemish composer (1510–1555)

Dutch Renaissance painter (c. 1475–1552/53)

French music printer and composer

Spanish conquistador

Spanish conquistador

Scottish noble and poet (c. 1490 – c. 1555)

16th-century king of the Georgian Kingdom of Kartli

Italian painter (1480-1555)

16th-century Italian geographer and cartographer

Bavarian noblewoman and first Protestant woman writer

French neo-Latin poet; called " the elder"; grand uncle to "the younger"

Italian painter (1492-1556)

English Franciscan, briefly a cardinal

Italian sculptor (1530-1553)

Franco-Flemish singer, Renaissance composer

Italian painter (1490-1548)

Italian architect and sculptor (1474-1554)

British mathematician

16th-century Italian nobewoman

French translator

German music theorist and composer

16th-century Italian painter (1480–1556)

Spanish explorer

French cartographer

Italian painter (1470-1550)

German artist (1495-1555)

Portuguese writer

Patriarch of Moscow

genoese admiral

French Renaissance era lutenist, composer and music publisher

Ban of Croatia (c. 1485-1544)

Spanish writer and poet (1522-1551)

Italian composer

Italian painter, sculptor and architect (1480-1547)

Italian artist

Dutch sculptor

French artist (1505–1559)

French diplomat

Dutch painter (1490-1557)

French writer