1515

Events

Births

• January 1 - Johann Weyer, Dutch physician
• February 4 - Mikołaj "the Black" Radziwiłł, Polish magnate
• February 14 - Frederick III, Elector Palatine, ruler from the house of Wittelsbach
• February 18 - Valerius Cordus, German physician, botanist and author
• March 10 - Injong of Joseon, 12th king of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea
• March 12 - Caspar Othmayr, German Protestant priest, theologian and composer
• March 28 - Teresa of Ávila, Spanish Carmelite nun, poet and saint
• May 2 - Sibylle of Saxony, Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg
• May 12
• * Christoph, Duke of Württemberg
• * Gilbert Kennedy, 3rd Earl of Cassilis, Scottish politician and judge
• June 15 - Anne Parr, Countess of Pembroke, English countess
• July 4 - Eleonora d'Este, Ferranese noblewoman
• July 10 - Francisco de Toledo, Viceroy of Peru
• July 14 - Philip I, Duke of Pomerania-Wolgast
• July 21 - Philip Neri, Italian Roman Catholic saint
• September 8 - Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish biblical scholar and early Jesuit
• September 22 - Anne of Cleves, Fourth Queen of Henry VIII of England
• October 4 - Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter
• October 7 - Infante Duarte, Duke of Guimarães, son of King Manuel I of Portugal
• October 8 - Margaret Douglas, daughter of Archibald Douglas
• October 15 - Leone Strozzi, French Navy admiral
• October 29
• * Vincenzo Borghini, Italian monk
• * Mary of Bourbon, daughter of Charles, Duke of Vendôme
• November 22 - Mary of Guise, queen of James V of Scotland and regent of Scotland
• December 15 - Maria of Saxony, Duchess of Pomerania
• date unknown
• * Gilbert Kennedy, 3rd Earl of Cassilis, Scottish peer
• * Sebastian Castellio, rector of the College of Geneva
• * Sehzade Mustafa, First born son of Suleiman the Magnificent by Mahidevran Sultan
• * Cristóbal Acosta, Portuguese doctor and natural historian
• * Injong of Joseon, 12th king of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea
• * Pierre de la Ramée, French humanist scholar
• * Thomas Seckford, Master of Requests for Elizabeth I of England
• * Thomas Watson, English Catholic bishop
• probable
• * Leonard Digges, English mathematician and surveyor
• * Jean Maillard, French composer
• * Laurence Nowell, English antiquarian
• * Cipriano de Rore, Flemish composer and teacher
• * Nicholas Throckmorton, English churchman, last abbot of Westminster
• * John Willock, Scottish reformer

  Deaths

• January 1 - King Louis XII of France
• February 6 - Aldus Manutius, Venetian printer
• March 16 - Queen Janggyeong, Korean royal consort
• April 15 - Mikołaj Kamieniecki, Polish nobleman and first Great Hetman of the Crown
• June 13 - Alaüddevle Bozkurt, Bey of Anatolian Dulkadir
• September 4 - Barbara of Brandenburg, Bohemian queen
• September 9 - Joseph Volotsky, caesaropapist ideologist of the Russian Orthodox Church
• October - Bartolomeo d'Alviano, Venetian general
• November 5 - Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter
• December 2 - Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general and statesman
• December 16 - Afonso de Albuquerque, Portuguese naval general
• December 18 - Alexander Stewart, Duke of Ross, Scottish prince
• date unknown
• * Giovanni Giocondo, Italian friar, architect and classical scholar
• * Eoghan Mac Cathmhaoil, Irish Bishop of Clogher since 1505
• * Meñli I Giray, khan of the Crimean Khanate
• * Pietro Lombardo, Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect
• * Nezahualpilli, Aztec philosopher
• * Alonso de Ojeda, Spanish conquistador
• probable - Vincenzo Foppa, Italian Renaissance painter
• * Quilago, queen regnant of the Cochasquí in Ecuador