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1559 deaths

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pope of catholic church 1555-1559

Henry II of France

King of France from 1547 to 1559 (1519–1559)

Christian II of Denmark

king of Denmark, Norway and Sweden

Christian III of Denmark

king of Denmark and Norway

Isabella Jagiellon

Queen Consort of Hungary

Michele Sanmicheli

Italian architect (1484–1559)

Robert Estienne

16th-century printer and classical scholar in Paris

Ercole II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara

Italian noble (1508-1559)

Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Selim I

chinese painter, calligrapher and poet from the Ming dynasty (1470-1559)

Count Palatine of Neuburg from 1505 to 1559

Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk

English duchess

German mathematician

Italian painter (1481–1559)

Christina Gyllenstierna

Noblewoman of Sweden and leader of resistance to Christian II of Denmark (1494-1559)

Italian physician

Doge of Venice (1489-1559)

Japanese painter (1476-1559)

William I, Count of Nassau-Siegen

German count (1487-1559)

Mircea the Shepherd

Voivode of Wallachia

Cuthbert Tunstall

English bishop, administrator and royal advisor

Ming Dynasty poet (1488-1559)

Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen

Dutch painter (c. 1504 – 1559)

Francis Otto, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Prince of Luneberg 1555-1559

Galawdewos (, 1521/1522 – 23 March 1559), also known as Claudius in European sources, was Emperor of Ethiopia from 3 September 1540 until his death in 1559, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. His throne name was Atsnaph Sagad I (Ge'ez: አጽናፍ ሰገድ). A male line descendant of medieval Amhara kings, he was a younger son of Dawit II and Seble Wongel.

Sikandar Shah Suri

Catholic cardinal

Theophanes the Cretan

Icon painter from Crete (died 1559)

Irene di Spilimbergo

Italian painter (1538-1559)

Spanish botanist (1499-1559)

Roberto de' Nobili

Italian cardinal

Juan Ladrillero

Spanish explorer

Philip III of Nassau-Weilburg

Count of Nassau-Weilburg (1523-1559)

Fernão Lopes de Castanheda

Portuguese historian

Antoine Sanguin

Catholic cardinal

Luigi Lippomano

Catholic cardinal

Christoph Weiditz the Elder

German painter, sculptor, engraver, medallist and goldsmith (1498–1559)

Giovanni da Nola

15th-16th century Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect

Jacquet of Mantua

French composer

Antonio Trivulzio, iuniore

Italian cardinal

German astronomer and mathematician (1501-1559)

Martin du Bellay

French memorialist

French magistrat (1521-1559)

Giovanni Battista Consiglieri

Italian Cardinal

Conn O'Neill, 1st Earl of Tyrone

1st Earl of Tyrone

George van Egmond

Sebastián Fox Morcillo

Spanish scholar and philosopher

Andreas Aurifaber

German physician, professor, Protestant theologian and physicist (1513/14-1559)

William IV, Count of Henneberg-Schleusingen

Count of Henneberg (1480-1559)

Alessandro Pasqualini

Italian architect

Girolamo Dandini

Catholic cardinal (1509-1599)

Pietro Giovanni Chiavica Cibo

Virgilio Rosario

Italian cardinal

Yūki Masakatsu

Japanese samurai and daimyo of the Sengoku period

Girolamo Recanati Capodiferro

Italian cardinal

Petrus Dasypodius

François Douaren

Matthias Garbitius

German philologist

franco-Flemish composer