1564 deaths

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6March 147518February 1564), known mononymously as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. He was born in the Republic of Florence but was mostly active in Rome from his 30s onwards. His work was inspired by models from classical antiquity and had a lasting influence on Western art. Michelangelo's creative abilities and mastery in a range of artistic arenas define him as an archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival and elder contemporary, Leonardo da Vinci. Given the sheer volume of survivin

French Protestant reformer (1509-1564)

Flemish anatomist, physician and author (1514–1564)

Holy Roman Emperor of the Habsburg dynasty and king of Bohemia, Croatia and Hungary (1503–1564)

French traveler, naturalist, writer and diplomat (1517-1564)

Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire

Queen regent of Gondwana (1524–1564)

Italian courtesan, author

French anatomist, printer, agronomist (1504-1564)

Italian painter (1487-1564)

Indian musician

Bavarian Duchess

Swiss orientalist and linguist

Italian theologian

Portuguese explorer

French noble (1535-1564)

Viceroy of New Spain (1511-1564)

Catholic cardinal

Italian painter and engraver (1500-1564)

Catholic cardinal

Corderius (Latinized form of the name Mathurin Cordier; 1479 or 1480 – 8 September 1564) was a French-born theologian, teacher, humanist, and pedagogian active in Geneva, Republic of Geneva. He taught at the School of Lausanne (now the University of Lausanne), where he was a director.

Spanish viceroy (1510-1564)

Mughal empress

Indian guru, poet and philosopher of the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition (1489-1564)

Franco-Flemish Renaissance composer

printer in Zurich (1490-1564)

German astronomer and inventor (1489–1564)

Roman Catholic bishop

Japanese samurai and daimyo who was lord of the Miyoshi clan during the Sengoku period

Italian cartographer

Sultan of Johor

Duke of the Archipelago (r. 1517–1564)

Japanese samurai

Ruler of Moldavia in 1563 and 1564

Swiss theologian

Samurai of the Sengoku period

Flemish theologian (1511-1564)

French duke

Dutch doctor and mathematician (1520-1564)

German Protestant theologian and reformer

Italian cardinal

French printer, book publisher and bookseller (1504-1564)

Spanish conquistador

Chinese cartographer

flemish painter (c.1490-c.1564)

Italian military engineer

samurai

Roman Catholic bishop (1505-1564)

Faience manufacturer from France

(1544-1564)

Italian humanist, translator and publisher (1515–1564)

Austrian statesman and printer

Tibetan king

Japanese poet

German theologian

wife of three religious reformers

German theologian (1501-1564)

16th-century English noblewoman

16th century Prince of Guria