Nekrolog 1561

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This is a list of famous people who died in 1561 . The entries are made alphabetically within the individual data. Animals can be found in the necrology for animals .

January

Day	Surname	Profession known as
January 1st	Pedro de Ursúa	Basque-Spanish conqueror in South America
13th January	Friedrich Magnus I.	Regent and ruling count of the County of Solms
31 January	Bairam Khan	Turkmen general, adviser and regent for the underage great mogul Akbar
January	Hans Regkmann	German merchant and chronicler
January	Menno Simons	Dutch theologian; Namesake of the Mennonites

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
February 4th	Robert II. De Lénoncourt	French cardinal
February 26th	Jorge de Montemayor	Portuguese poet and singer

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
4th of March	Carlo Carafa	Soldier and cardinal	43
8th of March	Andreas Bussmann	Merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
March 10th	Johannes Saxonius	German humanist
the 14th of March	Petrus Conradi	German theologian and cathedral dean at Havelberg Cathedral
March 21st	Hermes Schallautzer	Mayor of Vienna and city judge
25th March	Conrad Lycosthenes	Humanist and encyclopedist	42
28th March	Bartholomäus V. Welser	Augsburg patrician and merchant	76
March 30	Andrés Hurtado de Mendoza	Spanish officer; Viceroy of Peru

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
April 14th	Gregor von Nallingen	City clerk and lawyer in Heilbronn
17th April	Johannes Tiedemann	Bishop of Lübeck
April 24th	Laurentius Kercher	Catholic clergyman, last dean of the collegiate monastery Neustadt an der Weinstrasse
April 28	Heinrich von Pflimmern	German chronicler	85

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
May 3rd	Nicholas Herman	German cantor, teacher and hymn creator
May 4th	Karl	Prince of Anhalt	26th
May 16	Jan Amor Tarnowski	Polish grand hetmans of the crown and politicians
23. May	Juan de Hoyos	Spanish-Austrian nobleman

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
6th of June	Catherine of Mecklenburg	Duchess of Saxony
6th of June	Ridolfo Ghirlandaio	Italian painter	78
June 13th	Hans von Dehn-Rothfelser	Saxon court official and building manager of the Renaissance

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
5th July	Ambrosius Pelargus	Dominican and controversial theologian
July 9	Sebald Heyden	German cantor, headmaster and spiritual poet	61
10th of July	Dionysius Melander	German reformed theologian
July 12	Rustem Pasha	Ottoman Grand Vizier
July 14th	Obata Toramori	Samurai towards the end of the Sengoku period
17th July	Vojtěch from Pernstein	Bohemian-Moravian nobleman	28

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
August 2nd	Hans Kemmer	German Renaissance painter
August 2nd	Johann Weiss	German Lutheran theologian
3rd August	Heinrich von Witzleben	Owner of Wendelstein Castle	51
August 7th	Wolfgang von Closen	Bishop of Passau (1555–1561)
August 10	Ambrosius Widmann	German lawyer and cleric
August 28th	Jacqueline de Longwy	French nobles
August 31	Pierre Davantès	Humanist, classical philologist, printer and composer of melodies from the Geneva Psalter

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as
September 10	Takeda Nobushige	Japanese general of the Sengoku period
September 10	Yamamoto Kansuke	Japanese general
September 11	Christoph Metzler	Bishop of Constance
25th of September	Andreas Martini	German Protestant theologian
30. September	Michael Helding	German Catholic bishop, poet of humanism

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as
October 6th	Christoph Tiedemann	German Canon
9th October	Kaspar Brunner	Swiss blacksmith and watchmaker
23rd October	Johannes Salat	Swiss playwright and historian
October 27	Lope de Aguirre	Basque-Spanish conqueror in South America
28th of October	Jacob Beurlin	German humanist, theologian, reformer
October 31	Wendelin Merbot	Cistercian, last abbot of the Otterberg monastery

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
November 11th	Hans Tausen	Danish Protestant theologian and reformer
14th November	Philip III	German nobleman, Count of Hanau-Munzenberg	34

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
6th of December	Joachim	Prince of Anhalt-Dessau	52
10th of December	Kaspar Schwenckfeld	Silesian reformer and religious writer
13th December	Johann III.	Count of Nassau-Beilstein
December 22	Taddeo Gaddi	Italian cardinal	41
December 26th	Nikolaus Schöneck	Catholic clergyman, last Catholic pastor of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse before the Reformation

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
	Barthélémy Aneau	French writer and humanist
	Simon Bening	Flemish miniature painter and illustrator
	Alonso Berruguete	Spanish sculptor, painter and architect
	Hans Bocksberger the Elder	Austrian painter
	Adrian Buxschott	Theologian, reformer
	Paul Dax	Soldier, painter, glass painter, cartographer
	Marie Dentière	Reformed theologian and Reformation historian
	Giovanni Battista Franco	Italian painter
	Cordula von Fürstenberg	Abbess of Geseke
	Claude Garamond	French type founder, typographer, die cutter and publisher
	Georg IV. Fuchs of Rügheim	Bishop of Bamberg
	Hans Geyer von Osterburg	Austrian nobleman and civil servant
	Eustachius of Harras	Last of the noble family from Harras zu Lichtenwalde
	Antoine Marcourt	Theologian and reformer of Romansh Switzerland
	Karsten Middeldorp	German gun and bell founder
	Bernhard of Mila	Swedish admiral, Saxon colonel and governor
	Bernhard von Prittwitz	Silesian district administrator, district captain and landowner
	Sayri Tupac	Inca rulers
	Theobald Schwarz	Protestant theologian and reformer
	Ursula Southeil	British mythical figure, Yorkshire folklore
	Caspar Vopelius	German mathematician, astronomer and cartographer