1557 deaths

Breton maritime explorer of North America (1491–1557)

Queen consort of England (1515–1557)

Finnish clergyman and de facto founder of literary Finnish

Italian mathematician (1499–1557)

King of Portugal (r. 1521-1557)

Jacopo Carucci or Carrucci (; May 24, 1494 – January 2, 1557), usually known as Jacopo (da) Pontormo or simply Pontormo (), was an Italian Mannerist painter and portraitist from the Florentine School. His work represents a profound stylistic shift from the calm perspectival regularity that characterized the art of the Florentine Renaissance. He is famous for his use of twining poses, coupled with ambiguous perspective; his figures often seem to float in an uncertain environment, unhampered by the forces of gravity.

Italian painter (1480–1556)

Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania

Swedish writer

emperor of Japan

Lautaro (Anglicized as 'Levtaru') ( "swift hawk") (; 1534 – April 29, 1557) was a young Mapuche toqui known for leading the indigenous resistance against Spanish conquest in Chile and developing the tactics that would continue to be employed by the Mapuche during the long-running Arauco War. Levtaru was captured by Spanish forces in his early youth, and he spent his teenage years as a personal servant of chief conquistador Pedro de Valdivia. He graduated from servant to stableman; in this job he saw that their horses were not godlike creatures like his people thought (the biggest animal they k

Venetian geographer and writer (1485-1557)

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Italian nobleman; Governor of the Duchy of Milan

Spanish naturalist and historian (1478–1557)

Saadian dynasty Sultan of Morocco (1490–1557)

Mughal prince

Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1527-1553)

Count Palatine of Simmern

Spanish cardinal

Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller

Flemish musician and composer

Tuscan Royal

16th-century English classical scholar and statesman

Scottish noble

Italian Renaissance painter (1494-1557)

Roman Catholic bishop

Prince of Wallachia

Catholic cardinal

Italian writer, composer, organist, and poet of the Renaissance

Fourth ruler of the Sur dynasty

the son of Oda Nobuhide and younger brother of Oda Nobunaga, who lived during the Sengoku period of Japan

queen; Korean royal consort

French cardinal

Mughal princess

Saxon princess

Mughal Empire emperor

French surveyor, architect, and sculptor (1487–1556)

Khaan of the Northern Yuan Dynasty

Caramuru (-1557) was the Tupi name of the Portuguese colonist Diogo Álvares Correia, who is notable for being the first European to establish contact with the native Tupinambá population in modern-day Brazil and was instrumental in the early colonization of Brazil by the Portuguese crown. Notably, Caramuru's native-born wife, Catarina Paraguaçu, was the first South American native to be received in France in 1526. He and Catarina became the first Christian family in Brazil and had three children: Gaspar, Gabriel and Jorge, all named knights by Tomé de Sousa.

German jurist (ca. 1485-1557)

Japanese Christian convert

Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1552-1557)

French typographer

(1528-1557)

Italian cardinal

Italian cardinal

Japanese samurai

member of the Saadi Dynasty and brother of the first Saadi sultan of Morocco (1486-1557)

Catholic cardinal

English courtier (1505-1557)

Italian Duchess

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Italian painter

British duchess

English rebel (c.1533-1557)

Japanese monk of the Sengoku period

Dutch poet and humanist

Spanish aristocrat (1501-1557)

Portuguese administrator and historian