1556 deaths

Italian religious martyr

German composer

Bishop of Bamberg

Elder sister of Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, aunt of Anne Boleyn

Spanish Roman Catholic prelate

3 women (Guillemine Gilbert, Perotine Massey, Catherine Cauchés) who were burned at the stake for their Protestant beliefs, in Guernsey, Channel Islands, in 1556 during the Marian persecutions

Mayor of Algiers and caliph of Salah Rais