Nekrolog 1556

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This is a list of famous people who died in 1556 . 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
January 20th	Joachim von Maltzan	Baron and Imperial Field Marshal
21th January	Maxim the Greek	Greek monk, translator and saint of the Orthodox Church
January 26th	Humayun	Mughal Mughal of India	47

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
February 7th	Michel Wedelich	Dresden councilor and mayor
February 18	Johann V of Isenburg	Archbishop and Elector of Trier (1547–1556)
February 26th	Friedrich II.	Elector Palatinate	73

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
4th of March	Leonhard Kleber	German organist and composer
17. March	Richard Morison	English humanist and diplomat
March 21st	Thomas Cranmer	Anglican Archbishop and Reformer	66

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
April 6th	Konrad Pelikan	Reformed theologian and reformer	78
7th of April	Jerónimo de Alderete	Spanish conquistador in Venezuela, Peru and Chile
April 14th	Andrä von Graben	Styrian nobleman, owner of Kornberg Castle
April 18	Luigi Alamanni	Italian poet and humanist	61
April 23	Philipp von Breuner	Austrian nobleman and civil servant
26th of April	Valentin Friedland	humanistic school man	66

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as
May 4th	Luca Ghini	Italian doctor and botanist
10th of May	Bernhard of Nassau-Beilstein	Landdrost of Westphalia
May 20th	Weigand von Redwitz	Bishop of Bamberg

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2th of June	Francesco Venier	Doge of Venice
8th June	Martin Weiher	Lutheran theologian and Bishop of Cammin
June 10th	Martin Agricola	German music theorist, music teacher and composer of the Renaissance	70
June 29th	Theodor von Rheden	Bishop of Lübeck

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
July 1	Hans Stokar	Schaffhausen patrician, chronicler and pilgrim	65
July 6th	Johann Nopel the Elder	Auxiliary Bishop of Cologne
15th of July	Johann Stoltz	German Lutheran theologian, philosopher and Thuringian reformer
July 18th	Seraphin I of Taxis	Postmaster of Augsburg and Rheinhausen
July 31	Ignatius of Loyola	Founder of the Society of Jesus, later also known as the Jesuit Order	65

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
August 9	Andreas Pfeilschmidt	Dresden councilor and mayor
August 28th	David Joris	Representative of the Anabaptist movement, glass painter and self-proclaimed Messiah
29th August	Georg Kleinschmidt	German medic	58

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
September 8th	Martin Frecht	Theologian and reformer
September 18	Edward Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon	English nobleman
September 20th	Adolf von Schaumburg	Archbishop of Cologne (1547–1556)	45
25th of September	Reinoud III. van Brederode	Dutch nobleman

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
October 3	Bernhard von Hagen	Priest and Vicar General in Cologne
4th of October	Johannes Knipstro	Lutheran theologian and reformer	59
October 11th	Georg Müller	ninth abbot of the imperial abbey of Ochsenhausen
October 21	Pietro Aretino	Italian writer	64
October 21	Matthes Enderlein from Burgstadl	Saxon-Bohemian mountain master
October 27	Frederick of Denmark	Son of King Friedrich I of Denmark, Bishop of Hildesheim and Schleswig	24
October 31	Johannes Sleidanus	Luxembourgish historian, translator and diplomat

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
November 7th	Pilgram Marbeck	Personality of the South German Anabaptist Movement
November 10th	Richard Chancellor	English navigator
November 11th	Francesco Alunno	Italian calligrapher, lexicographer, Romanist, Italianist and grammarian
14th November	Giovanni Della Casa	Italian cleric and poet	53

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
December 8th	Johann Forster	German Lutheran theologian	60
20th of December	Ludwig von Praet	Nobleman, diplomat and statesman under Emperor Charles V.	68
23rd of December	Thomas Neidlein	German Premonstratensian Abbot
23rd of December	Nicholas Udall	English educator and playwright

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Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
	Thomas Aderpul	Clergyman of the Reformation period
	Tullia d'Aragona	Renaissance courtesan as well as an admired poet and philosopher in Italy
	Nicolas Bachelier	French architect and sculptor
	Gonçalo Anes Bandarra	Portuguese shoemaker, poet and prophet
	Girolamo da Carpi	Italian painter and architect
	Eustace Chapuys	Spanish Ambassador to the United Kingdom
	Pedro Jaime Esteve	Spanish doctor, botanist and humanist
	Fuzūlī	Divan poet
	Sebastian Gryphius	German-French printer and translator
	Domingo Martínez de Irala	Spanish conquistador
	Jörgen Kock	Mayor of Malmö
	Robert IV de La Marck	Marshal of France and Duke of Bouillon
	Margaret of Montfort	Abbess of the Buchau women's monastery
	Oddur Gottskálksson	Son of the Catholic Bishop Gottskálk Nikulásson and the Guðrún Eiríksdóttir
	Peter Rideman	baptist
	Nicholas Shaxton	English theologian and Bishop of Salisbury
	Friedrich von Stockheim	Vice dome of the Rheingau
	Sebestyén Tinódi	Hungarian songwriter and lute player
	Claudio Tolomei	Italian writer, critic and philologist
	Heinrich Vogtherr the Elder	German artist
	Burkard Waldis	German fabulous poet and author of a carnival game
	Denis Zachaire	French alchemist