Nekrolog 1568

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This is a list of famous people who died in 1568 . 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	Clemente d'Olera	Italian cardinal	66
15. January	Miklós Oláh	Hungarian archbishop, writer, politician and theologian	75
January 25th	Kilian Goldstein	German lawyer	68
January 26th	Catherine Gray	Members of the English nobility	27

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
February 12th	Rembert von Kerssenbrock	Bishop in the Archdiocese of Paderborn
February 15th	Heinrich von Brederode	Pioneer for the liberation of the Dutch from Spanish rule	36
February 25	Philipp Georg Schenk zu Schweinsberg	Prince Abbot of Fulda

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
March 11	Alexandru Lăpuşneanu	Voivode of the Principality of Moldova
March 12th	Cyriacus Lindemann	German educator
March, 20th	Albrecht	Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, first Duke of Prussia	77
March, 20th	Anna Maria of Braunschweig-Calenberg-Göttingen	Duchess of Prussia	35

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
April 16	Guglielmo Gratorolo	Italian alchemist	51
April 28	Franz Kram	German legal scholar and Electoral Saxon Chancellor
April, 30th	Ludovico Simonetta	Cardinal of the Catholic Church

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
May 6th	Bernardo Salviati	Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
May 13th	Sophia of Pomerania	Queen of Denmark and Norway and Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf
23. May	Johann von Ligne	Count, later Imperial Count, von Arenberg (1547–1568)
23. May	Adolf of Nassau	Count of Nassau	27

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
3rd of June	Andrés de Urdaneta	Spanish explorer and writer
June 5th	Lamoral from Egmond	Knight and governor of Flanders and Artois	45
June 5th	Philippe de Montmorency, Count of Hoorn	Dutch admiral and freedom fighter
June 11th	Henry II	Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel	78
18th of June	Pierre Eyquem de Montaigne	Mayor of Bordeaux, father of Michel de Montaigne	72
June 26th	Thomas Young	English archbishop

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
July 6th	Johannes Oporinus	Swiss book printer	61
7th of July	William Turner	British ornithologist and botanist
21 July	Erasmus Flock	German mathematician, astronomer, poet and physician	54
24th July	Don Carlos	Son of King Philip II of Spain	23
July	Stephan Zirler	German composer and court official

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
15th of August	Stanislaus Kostka	Saint of the Catholic Church	17th
August 21	Jean de la Valette	49. Grand Master of the Order of Malta
August 25	Hans Rebmann	Reformed theologian

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as
September 11	Paul Wibbeking	Councilor and Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
September 20th	Christian Lotichius	Deputy Abbot of the Schlüchtern Monastery
September 26th	Leonor de Cisnere	Spanish evangelical martyr
September 29th	Wilhelm Gnapheus	Humanist and scholar

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
October 3	Elisabeth of Valois	Daughter of Henry II of France and Catharina de 'Medici, wife of King Philip II of Spain	23
4th of October	Jakob Arcadelt	Dutch composer and conductor
October 10th	Eitel Dietrich von Gemmingen	Landlord in Steinegg
October 18	Eberhard von Varendorff	clerical dignitary of the Archdiocese of Bremen
October 19th	Johannes Aurifaber	Lutheran theologian and reformer	51
28th of October	Ashikaga Yoshihide	14. Shogun of the Ashikaga Shogunate

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
November 3rd	Nicholas Carr	English count and doctor
November 6th	Anna of Braunschweig-Lüneburg	Duchess of Pomerania	65
November 12th	Georg Forster	German doctor, composer and editor of song collections
November 19th	Vitellozzo Vitelli	Italian cardinal
November 27th	Erasmus Schenk from Limpurg	Bishop of Strasbourg	61

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
December 1	Luigi Tansillo	Italian poet
December 4th	Johann Schneidewein	German lawyer	48
11th December	Gianbernardino Scotti	Cardinal of the Catholic Church
23rd of December	Friedrich IV of Wied	Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Cologne
24th of December	Heinrich V of Plauen	Burgrave of Meissen	35
December 28th	Christoph	Duke of Württemberg	53
December 28th	Johann Geletzki	German hymn poet
30th of December	Roger Ascham	English educator

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
	Amato Lusitano	Portuguese-Jewish doctor and botanist
	Nanni di Baccio Bigio	Italian painter, sculptor and architect
	Pierre Bontemps	French sculptor
	Ñuflo de Chavez	Spanish conquistador
	Gilles Corrozet	French publisher, historian and writer
	Lodovico Dolce	Italian humanist, writer, poet, translator and art theorist
	Johann Wilhelm von Fürstenberg	Landmaster of the Teutonic Order in Livonia
	Guaicaipuro	Tribal leader of the Caribbean Teques tribe
	Khedrub Gendün Tenpa Dargye	22. Ganden Thripa
	Heinrich Lautensack	German goldsmith and painter
	Hoyko Manninga	East Frisian chief
	Garcia da Orta	Pioneer of botany and pharmacy
	Jakub Ostroróg	Polish general starost of Greater Poland, reformer
	Stanisław Ostroróg	Polish castellan, Starost General of Greater Poland, reformer
	Onofrio Panvinio	Italian theologian, church historian and antiquarian
	Dirk Philips	Dutch theologian and co-founder of the Mennonites
	Obbe Philips	Leader of the group of Anabaptists named after him, the Obbenites
	Heinrich Vogtherr the Younger	German painter, draftsman, wood cutter and eraser
	Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton	English peer and politician
	Paul Widemann	German stonemason, sculptor, master craftsman and builder