1555 deaths

pope of the Catholic Church from 1550 to 1555

pope of the Catholic Church and bishop of Rome from 9 April to 1 May 1555

Queen of Castile from 1504 and of Aragon from 1516

German mineralogist (1494-1555)

king of Navarre

Frisian physician, mathematician and cartographer (1508–1555)

Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire

English bishop (circa 1485-1555)

Portuguese explorer and colonial administrator

French mathematician and cartographer (*1494 – †1555)

Italian-English scholar (1470–1555)

Spanish Augustinian saint and archbishop

Italian classical scholar

electress consort of Brandenburg

Portuguese infante

German Lutheran reformer

German noblewoman, by marriage Electress consort of Saxony

Bishop of London; Anglican Saint

English bishop (1483-1555)

English royal minister in the Tudor era (1485-1554)

German Renaissance painter (1493–1555)

French anatomist (1478-1555)

French philosopher

4th king of the Ryukyu Kingdom

Italian physician and botanist (1500-1555)

English Bible editor and martyr (c. 1505 – 1555)

Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal of Milan

German printer

Italian painter (1474-1555)

Dutch field marshal

Italian noble

French diplomat

samurai

Bishop of Worcester and Gloucester

Ruler of Astrakhan Khanate

Polish bishop

Italian cardinal

Patriarch of Babylonia

samurai of the Sengoku period. a.k.a. Sōteki

Doge of the Republic of Genoa

Dutch noble

Tried for heresy and subsequently burnt at the stake

Italian artist (1500-1555)

Safavid military leader

wife of John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland

Japanese tea master

Norwegian noble

Landgrave of Leuchtenberg

Japanese warlord

Archbishop of Mainz

Italian writer

painter from Italy (1476-1555)

Italian poet (1515-ca. 1555)

English church Reformer and martyr (1510–1555)

Japanese noble

Belgian politician (1488-1555)

Italian painter (1475-1555)

Chinese statesman

Spanish Roman Catholic prelate

Danish Catholic priest