1551 deaths

Protestant reformer

Italian painter (1486–1551)

calligraphist and noted poet (1504-1551)

(1520-1551) queen-consort of Poland, Grand Duchess of Lithuania

Queen consort of Sweden

Spanish conquistador

Khan of Crimea

Chagatai Turco-Mongol military general (died 1551)

a warlord and magistrate of lower Owari Province during the Sengoku period of Japan

Prelate, bishop of Panama

Croatian nobleman and cardinal, Hungarian statesman (1482-1551)

humanist from St Gall

Early Netherlandish painter (c. 1495-1551)

Italian renaissance painter (1476-1551)

German Lutheran

daimyo (1507-1551)

16th-century Mughal prince in India

Hungarian aristocrat, Lord of Csesznek, Ban of Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade)

Spanish Renaissance writer

Prince of Anhalt-Dessau and Anhalt-Zerbst (1504-1551)

Duke of the Principality Grubenhagen

French ship owner

Italian jurist and poet (1480-1551)

British Duke

French noble

English nobleman

Italian painter (1481-1551)

Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal

German preacher

Roman Catholic bishop

2nd Duke of Aarschot, 3rd Prince of Chimay and 3rd Count of Beaumont

Spanish explorer

Irish earl

German theologian

Italian physician (1498–1551)

French artist (1470–1551)

English Duke, survived his brother for 30 minutes

samurai

Polish noble

English baron (1501-1551)

Italian musician

khan of Shaki

Italian matematician and physician

Ming dynasty person CBDB = 126440

Jayavīra was King of Kandy from 1511 to 1551. He succeeded his father Senasammata Vikramabahu as king and was succeeded by his son Karalliyadde Bandara. During the reign of Banḍāra, Catholic friars appeared at court and some conversions took place in the kingdom.

Sephardic-Italian financier, academic, and supporter of Italian Jewry