1560s deaths

French poet

Spanish historian

Italian painter (1536-1565)

Flemish painter

thumb|Detail of the scene painted on the right wall of the presbytery (''Daniel's three friends brought before Nebuchadnezzar''), c 1535, fresco, Church of Saint Anthony the Abbot, Breno, Val Camonica, Italy. Girolamo Romani, known as Romanino ( – ), was an Italian High Renaissance painter active in the Veneto and Lombardy, near Brescia. His long career brought forth several different styles.

Polish composer

Franco-Flemish composer

Jurist, theologian, philosopher, engineer

Portuguese historian (1492–c.1563)

Italian artist (1504-1566)

Spanish Friar Minor and musician

Spanish historian

Netherlandish composer

German Renaissance painter and architect

painter (1498-1564)

English biographer of Cardinal Wolsey

Sandrin (Pierre Regnault) (c. 1490 – after 1561) was a French composer of the Renaissance. He was a prolific composer of chansons in the middle of the 16th century, some of which were extremely popular and widely distributed.

Franco-Flemish composer

Portuguese painter, active 1514-1551, died circa 1565

Croatian writer and translator

French poet, woman of letters

Italian musician and organist, father of Girolamo Cavazzoni

French composer

Engineer and director of a mint

Dutch painter (1490–1553)

Spanish priest and composer

Flemish painter (1520-1565)

Italian Gun maker who established Firearms manufacturing company Beretta

Polish noble and poet

Czech traveller

German artist

Saint, sheikh and islamic scholar

franco-Flemish composer

German priest

Italian composer

Spanish colonial aadministrator

Polish physician, scientist