Necrology 1540
This is a list of famous people who died in 1540 . The entries are made alphabetically within the individual data. Animals can be found in the necrology for animals .
January
Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
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January 1st | Johann Molner | German Cistercian abbot | ||
January 9th | Hoyer VI. from Mansfeld | Count von Mansfeld, Knight of the Golden Fleece | ||
January 27th | Angela Merici | Religious, founder of the Ursulines | 65 |
February
Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
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February 2nd | Georg Schenck of Tautenburg | Governor of Friesland and Overijssel, Drenthe and Groningen | ||
27th of February | John III Buttner | German Benedictine abbot |
March
Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
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2nd March | Hieronymus Dungersheim | German theologian | 74 | |
March 22 | Hans Kohlhase | German businessman; Model for Kleist's "Michael Kohlhaas" | ||
March 30 | Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg | Archbishop of Salzburg and Cardinal |
April
Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
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3rd of April | Garcia de Noronha | Portuguese nobleman | ||
12. April | Antoine I. de Lalaing | Governor of Holland and Zealand | ||
April 16 | Afonso de Portugal | Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church | 30th | |
17th April | Stanislaus Thurzo | Bishop of Olomouc | ||
April 19th | Johannes V. Swan | Provost of Heidenfeld | ||
April 25 | Dietrich von Thüngen | Cathedral dean of Würzburg |
May
Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
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May 4th | Otto Beckmann | German theologian, pastor and humanist | ||
May 6th | Juan Luis Vives | Spanish humanist and teacher | 48 | |
May 16 | Johann Koell | Estonian clergyman and translator | ||
May 19th | Johann Schwebel | German theologian | ||
May 22 | Francesco Guicciardini | Italian historian | 57 | |
May 24th | Veit Welzer | Governor of Carinthia (1520–1537) |
June
Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
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June 1st | Sebald Pögl the Younger | Styrian hammer master and arms manufacturer | ||
June 11th | Georg Hohermuth of Speyer | German conquistador and governor of Venezuela | ||
June 16 | Konrad II of Thüngen | Prince-Bishop of Würzburg (1519–1540) | ||
June 22 | Sibert of Ryswick | Catholic clergyman and politician | ||
June 28th | Federico II Gonzaga | Duke of Mantua | 40 | |
June 29th | Prista early baby | Victims of the witch trials in Wittenberg | ||
June 30th | Thomas Abel | English clergyman |
July
Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
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22nd of July | Johann III. from Metzenhausen | Elector and Archbishop of Trier | ||
22nd of July | Johann Zápolya | Prince of Transylvania | 53 | |
July 28th | Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex | English statesman | ||
July 28th | Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford of Heytesbury | English politician during the Tudor period | ||
July 28th | Hermann Tulichius | German theologian (Protestant), educator and reformer | ||
30th July | Robert Barnes | English reformer and martyr | ||
30th July | Erich I. | Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg | 70 | |
July | Jörg Kölderer | Court painter and court architect of Emperor Maximilian I. |
August
Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
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5th of August | Jean Jonglet | Ambassador of the Spanish Netherlands in England | ||
8th August | Christoph Hegendorf | humanistic poet, Lutheran theologian and lawyer | ||
20th of August | Guillaume Budé | French humanist, diplomat, philologist and librarian | 72 | |
August 23 | Heinrich Schickhardt the Elder | German carver and cabinet maker | 76 | |
August 24th | Parmigianino | Italian mannerism painter | 37 | |
26th of August | Gallus Haas | Abbot in the monastery of St. Blasien |
September
Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
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September 1 | Konrad Krebs | German builder and architect | ||
September 18 | Philipp Fürstenberger | German patrician and statesman | ||
September 20th | Andreas Stoss | Carmelite | ||
September 24th | Enno II. | Count of East Frisia (1528–1540) | ||
25th of September | Adam White | Protestant theologian and reformer | ||
25th of September | John III wolf | German Cistercian abbot | ||
September | Hans Cromberger | Book printer, founded the first printing company in America |
October
Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
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4th of October | Helius Eobanus Hessus | German Protestant humanist and neo-Latin poet | 52 | |
October 7th | Cristoforo Giacobazzi | Cardinal of the Catholic Church | ||
23rd October | Stephan Kempe | Lutheran theologian and reformer |
November
Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
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November 12th | Boing from Oldersum | East Frisian nobleman and civil servant | ||
14th November | Rosso Fiorentino | Italian mannerism painter | 46 | |
November 18 | Sigmund Holbein | German painter |
December
Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
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December | Ștefan Lăcustă | Prince of Moldova |
Date unknown
Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
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Adolf of Burgundy | Lord von Veere and Admiral of the Netherlands | |||
Jorge Afonso | Portuguese painter | |||
Kaspar Baldung | German lawyer | |||
Balthasar von Esens | East Frisian chief | |||
Barthel Beham | German painter and engraver | |||
Bernhard bow dance | German music theorist | |||
Johann Böschenstein | German Hebraist, hymn poet and mathematician | |||
Joos van Cleve | Dutch painter | |||
Nicolas Cop | Rector and medic | |||
Andreas Cratander | Basel printer and publisher | |||
David II | Negus (Emperor) of Ethiopia (1508–1540) | |||
Gregor Erhart | German carver | |||
Johannes Fritzhans | German Lutheran preacher, formerly a Franciscan | |||
Elisabeth von Hohengeroldseck | Abbess of the Buchau women's monastery | |||
Hinrich Kerckring | Merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck | |||
Gottschalk Kruse | Lutheran theologian and reformer in Lower Saxony | |||
Philippe Maioris | Spanish Ambassador to the United Kingdom | |||
Daniel Mauch | German carver | |||
Wolfgang Reissenbusch | German theologian, humanist and politician, Chancellor of the University of Wittenberg | |||
Wolfgang Treu | Mayor of Vienna | |||
Francisco de Ulloa | Spanish explorer, explored the west coast of what is now Mexico | |||
Jakob Zech | Czech watchmaker | |||
Konrad Öttinger | Lutheran theologian and reformer |