|
|
1545
EventsBirths - March 2 - Thomas Bodley, English diplomat and library founder (died 1613)
- April 2 - Elizabeth of Valois, queen of Philip II of Spain (died 1568)
- April 28 - Yi Sun-sin, Korean naval leader (died 1598)
- July 8 - Don Carlos of Spain, son of Philip II of Spain (died 1568)
- August 1 - Andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and religious reformer (died 1622)
- December 7 - Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, consort of Mary I of Scotland (died 1567)
- George Bannatyne, collector of Scottish poems (died 1608)
- Nicholas Breton, English poet and novelist (died 1626)
- Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma and Piacenza (died 1592)
- John Field, British Puritan clergyman and controversialist (died 1588)
- John Gerard, English botanist (died 1612)
- Joris Hoefnagel, Dutch painter and engraver (died 1601)
- Giovanni Filippo Ingrassias, Sicilian anatomist (died 1580)
- Alexander Montgomerie, Scottish poet (died 1610)
- William Morgan, Welsh Bible translator (died 1604)
- Azai Nagamasa, Japanese nobleman
- Mashita Nagamori, Japanese warlord
- Lady Douglas Sheffield, lover of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (died 1608)
Deaths - January 16 - George Spalatin, German reformer (born 1484)
- April 10 - Costanzo Festa, Italian composer (born 1495)
- June 12 - Francis I, Duke of Lorraine (born 1517)
- August 24 - Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English politician
- August 27 - Piotr Gamrat, Polish Catholic archbishop (b. 1487)
- September 24 - Albert of Mainz, elector and archbishop of Mainz (b. 1490)
- October 18 - John Taverner, English composer
- Hans Baldung, German artist (born 1480)
- Antonio de Guevara, Spanish chronicler and moralist (born 1481)
- Fernão Lopez, Portuguese renegade
- Stanisław Odrowąż, Polish noble (born 1509)
|