Nekrolog 1556
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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | Age | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 |
Date unknown
Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
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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 |