Nekrolog 1566

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This is a list of famous people who died in 1566 . 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
6th January	Francesco II Gonzaga	Bishop of Mantua	27
6th January	Jan van Utenhove	Flemish humanist and reformed theologian
January 7th	Louis de Blois	French Benedictine, reformer of the Benedictine order and mystical poet
January 16	Basil Monner	German legal scholar

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
3 February	Georg Cassander	German theologian and humanist	52
February 11th	Jan Hodějovský z Hodějova	Bohemian nobleman and humanist and patron	70

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
9th March	David Rizzio	Italian musician; Private secretary and favorite of Maria Stuart
March 23	wolfgang	Prince of Anhalt-Koethen	73
28th March	Siegmund von Herberstein	Austrian imperial council and envoy to the Russian court	79

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as
4. April	Daniele da Volterra	Italian painter and sculptor
April 18	Johann Draconites	German theologian, humanistic philosopher and reformer
20th of April	Hans Dietrich von Gemmingen	Landlord in Heimsheim, Mühlhausen and Weinfelden
April 22	Diana of Poitiers	Henry II's mistress
April 25	Louise Labé	French poet
April 29	Jean Suau	Cardinal and Roman Catholic Bishop
April	Francesco Lismanini	Italian reformer in Poland

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
May 3rd	Johannes Lening	German Protestant theologian and reformer	75
8th of May	Luigi Cornaro	Italian humanist, agricultural economist, writer, villa owner and patron
10th of May	Leonhart Fuchs	German herbalist	65
May 11th	Leonhard Gnetzamer	German Benedictine abbot
May 26	Antonio de Cabezón	Spanish composer and organist	56
31. May	Georg Buchholzer	German theologian, reformer

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
June 4th	Matthaeus Collinus	Czech teacher and writer
June 7th	Philipp Gallicius	Reformed theologian, hymn poet and reformer	62

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2nd July	Nostradamus	French doctor and seer	62
July 6th	Margarethe von der Saale	Wife of Landgrave Philipp of Hesse
July 18th	Bartolome de Las Casas	Dominican and lawyer in the Spanish colonies in America
29th of July	Bartholomeus Tinnappel	Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
4th of August	Girolamo Della Robbia	Italian sculptor and architect	78
4th of August	Christoph of Oldenburg	German nobleman
August 10	Bartholomaeus Rieseberg	German Protestant theologian	73
August 16	Arnold Burenius	German humanist and professor of philosophy at the University of Rostock
August 19th	Elisabeth of Braunschweig-Calenberg	Countess von Henneberg	40
August 28th	Arndt Siemerding	German sculptor and former representative of the Renaissance in Hanover

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
5th September	Johannes Fabricius Montanus	Graubünden reformer and neo-Latin poet of humanism
September 6th	Ambrosius Smurf	Swiss Mayor
7th of September	Ivan I. Drašković	Croatian nobleman
7th of September	Suleyman I.	Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1520–1566)
September 8th	Nikola Šubić Zrinski	Croatian-Hungarian general and defender of Szigetvár near Pécs
13.september	Sigismund of Brandenburg	Archbishop of Magdeburg and Bishop of Halberstadt	27
16th September	Lorenz Hiel	German physician and botanist
September 20th	Giovanni Valentino Gentile	Italian humanist
September 22	Johannes Agricola	German reformer	72
September 27th	Marcus Hieronymus Vida	Italian poet and humanist

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
October 10th	Tiberio Crispo	Cardinal of the Catholic Church	68
October 17th	Paul Neefe	Cloth merchant and mayor of Chemnitz
28th of October	Johann Funck	German Protestant theologian	48
30th of October	Johann Valentin Furtmüller	Carpenter and theologian and reformer close to the Anabaptists
October 31	Richard Edwards	English composer
October 31	Matthias von Sittard	Dominican theologian, imperial court preacher	44
October	Jacopo Gastaldi	Italian cartographer
October	Jacobus de Dacia	Danish Franciscan

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
November 3rd	Jakob Funkelin	Reformed theologian and playwright
14th November	Pier Francesco Ferrero	Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church
November 17th	Raffaellino del Colle	Italian painter
21st November	Annibale Caro	Italian poet	59
22nd of November	Domenico Cubelles	Spanish Roman Catholic clergyman and Bishop of Malta
November 27th	Froben Christoph von Zimmer	Author of the "Zimmerische Chronik"	47
November 29th	Nikolaus Gromann	Renaissance builder

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
December 4th	Georg of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel	last Catholic Archbishop of Bremen and Bishop of Verden	72
10th of December	Georg Bombastus from Hohenheim	Grand Prior of the German Order of St. John

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
	Jacomo Bassano	Italian musician
	Pierre Boaistuau	French editor, writer and translator
	Hans Clauert	fool
	Wolf Hünerkopf	German miner, mint master and landowner
	Paulus Klautendorffer	German hymn poet
	Lambert Lombard	Renaissance painter, architect and humanist
	Wigand Orth	German Protestant theologian
	Stanislaw Orzechowski	Representative of the Polish Renaissance
	Girolamo Romanino	Italian painter
	Guillaume Rondelet	French doctor and naturalist
	Wolfgang Schutzbar called Milchling	Hoch- and Deutschmeister
	Bartholomaeus Suawe	Protestant theologian and reformer
	Anton Thurler	Dresden councilor and mayor
	Diego de Torralva	Portuguese architect
	Tsharchen Losel Gyatsho	Head of the Tsar tradition, the Sakya sub-school of Tibetan Buddhism; Founder of Dar Thrangmochen Monastery
	Taddeo Zuccari	Italian painter