Nekrolog 1561
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 | Age | receipt |
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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 |
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February 4th | Robert II. De Lénoncourt | French cardinal | ||
February 26th | Jorge de Montemayor | Portuguese poet and singer |
March
Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | Age | receipt |
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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 | Age | receipt |
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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 |
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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 | receipt |
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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 |
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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 |