Nekrolog 1557
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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | Age | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 |
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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 |