Nekrolog 1557

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This is a list of famous people who died in 1557 . 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 2nd	Jacopo da Pontormo	Italian mannerism painter	62
January 4th	Philip	Duke of Mecklenburg	42
January 8th	Albrecht II Alcibiades	Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach	34
January 12th	Eberhard Billick	Theologian and designated auxiliary bishop in Cologne
January	Johannes Comander	Theologian, reformer
January	Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus	Scottish nobleman

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
February 4th	Wolf Feurer	Mayor of Heilbronn
February 15th	Gregor Brück	Politician and Saxon Chancellor during the Reformation	72
February 17th	Johann Timann	Protestant theologian and reformer
February	Thomas Crécquillon	Franco-Flemish composer, singer, conductor and cleric

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as
9th March	Geble Pederssøn	Norwegian clergyman and first Lutheran superintendent
17. March	Wilhelm the Elder of Waldburg-Trauchburg	Augsburg bailiff, envoy of the Swabian Federation, supreme field captain and court master of King Ferdinand
March, 20th	Paul Bacon	German stonemason, sculptor, master craftsman and builder
28th March	Johann Albrecht Widmannstetter	German humanist, diplomat, theologian and philologist

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
April 1st	Lautaro	Mapuche war chief (1553–1557)
2nd of April	Andreas Magerius	French Lutheran theologian, educator of princes in the Duchy of Pomerania
9th April	Mikael Agricola	Finnish theologian and reformer
April 21	Kaspar Gretter	Lutheran theologian and reformer
April 21	Girolamo Parabosco	Italian author, composer, organist and poet of the Renaissance
April 24th	Georg Rörer	Protestant theologian and colleague of Martin Luther	64

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
May 4th	George of Austria	Bishop of Liege
May 18	Johann II.	Count Palatine of Simmern	65
30th May	Heinrich von Galen	Livonian order master of the Teutonic Order
31. May	Juan Martínez Silíceo	Spanish cardinal
May	Reinhold von Buxhoeveden	Roman Catholic Bishop of Estonia

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
June 11th	Johann III.	King of Portugal from the House of Avis	55
June 16	Konrad von Tecklenburg-Schwerin	Count of Tecklenburg, Lord of Rheda and Count of Lingen
June	David Douglas, 7th Earl of Angus	Scottish nobleman

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
10th of July	Giovan Battista Ramusio	Italian humanist, historian and geographer	71
16th of July	Anna of Kleve	Wife of King Henry VIII of England	41
16th of July	Vincenzo degli Azani	Italian Renaissance painter
24th July	Wolffgang Wesener	German mayor
July 26th	Angelus Merula	evangelical martyr and reformer

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
4th of August	Brictius thom Norde	Lutheran theologian and reformer
8th August	Melchior from Ossa	German lawyer and cinematographer
August 10	Fabio Mignanelli	Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church
18th of August	Claude de la Sengle	Grand Master of the Order of Malta
August 22nd	Andreas Ebertus	German Lutheran theologian	78

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
September 1	Jacques Cartier	French explorer and navigator	65
13.september	Veit Amerbach	German scholar and humanist
13.september	John Cheke	British scholar and statesman	43
September 15th	Juan Álvarez y Alva de Toledo	Spanish Dominican, Archbishop and Cardinal	69
September 15th	Hans Walther von Hürnheim	Imperial Councilor and Landsknechtsführer
September 22	Niccolò Liburnio	Italian humanist, grammarian, lexicographer, Italianist and Romanist
September 26th	Kaspar von Niedbruck	Diplomat and humanist
September 27th	Go-Nara	105. Tennō of Japan	60
September 27th	John Sackville	Member of Parliament, local administrator	73

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
5th October	Caramuru	Portuguese colonist in Brazil
the 20th of October	Jean Salmon Macrin	neo-Latin poet of French origin

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
November 12th	Matthias Kremer	German Catholic theologian and Rector magnificus of the University of Cologne
15th of November	Ferrante I. Gonzaga	Viceroy of Sicily, governor of Milan, Count of Guastalla	50
November 19th	Bona Sforza	youngest daughter of Duke Gian Galeazzo Sforza of Milan	63
November 28th	Robert Rochester	catholic politician
30th of November	Galvarino	Mapuche warriors

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
6th of December	Elisabeth of Hesse	Princess of Hesse, Hereditary Princess of Saxony, Mistress in Rochlitz	55
6th of December	Johann Machabeus	Scottish reformer and Protestant theologian
13th December	Niccolò Tartaglia	Italian mathematician

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
	Jean Bouchet	French writer and historian
	John Braye, 2nd Baron Braye	English nobleman and politician
	Brigitta von Stiebar	last abbess of the Schlüsselau monastery
	Sebastiano Caboto	Italian explorer
	Thomas Crécquillon	Franco-Flemish composer
	Hans Dobel	Alsatian-Swiss sculptor and carpenter
	Wolfgang von Grünenstein	German abbot, prince abbot in the prince monastery Kempten (1535–1557)
	Hayâlî	Ottoman poet
	Gerrit Hazenpoet	Martyrs of the Anabaptist Movement
	Lorenzo Lotto	Italian painter of the High Renaissance
	Olaus Magnus	Swedish clergyman, cartographer and geographer
	Hermann von der Malsburg	Landgrave Hessian councilor and marshal
	Hieronymus Meitting	Bishop of Chiemsee (1536–1557)
	Mohammed ech-Cheikh	Sheikh; first sultan of the Saadians in Morocco (1544–1557)
	Ngorchen Könchog Lhündrub	10. Abbot of the Ngor Monastery
	Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo	Spanish historian and statesman
	Andreas Plathner	German goldsmith and armorer, innkeeper, entrepreneur and mayor
	Francesco Ubertini	Italian Renaissance painter
	Werner von Binsfeld	Landdrost of the Duchy of Jülich and bailiff of Nideggen
	Andreas Wilms	German reformer