Nekrolog 1576
This is a list of famous people who died in 1576 . 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 | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 5th | Thomas Rehdiger | Silesian humanist and major collector of books and paintings | 35 | |
| January 8th | Lope García de Castro | Spanish lawyer, interim viceroy of Peru | ||
| 10. January | Benedikt Burgauer | Swiss theologian and reformer | 81 | |
| January 19th | Hans Sachs | Nuremberg poet, master singer and playwright | 81 | |
| January 26th | Juan Ortiz de Zárate | Spanish conquistador | ||
| 31 January | Dionysius Dreytwein | German furrier and author | 
February
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 10th | Guilielmus Xylander | German scholar and humanist | 43 | |
| February 12th | Johann Albrecht I. | Duke of Mecklenburg | 50 | |
| February 22 | Bernardino Gatti | Italian painter | ||
| February 24th | Nikolaus Gentzkow | German mayor and chronicler | 73 | 
March
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2nd March | Georg Kleefeld | Mayor of Gdansk | 54 | |
| 5. March | Luis de Zúñiga y Requesens | Steward and tutor of the later Spanish King Philip II | 47 | |
| March 11 | Juan de Salcedo | Spanish conquistador | ||
| March, 15 | Jacques Gohory | French alchemist and writer | 56 | |
| March 18th | Charles I. | Count of Hohenzollern and Haigerloch | ||
| March 18th | Johann Stössel | German Protestant theologian and reformer | 51 | |
| March 18th | Eitelhans von Westernach | German nobleman | ||
| March, 20th | Heinrich Salmuth | Protestant theologian and superintendent of Leipzig | 54 | |
| 27th of March | Clare of Saxony-Lauenburg | Duchess of Braunschweig-Gifhorn | 57 | |
| 28th March | Jakob von der Schulenburg | imperial field marshal | 61 | |
| March 29 | Valentin Erythraeus | German educator and philologist | 
May
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.May | Bartolome de Carranza | Archbishop of Toledo, victim of the Spanish Inquisition | ||
| 5th of May | Anna von Kuedorf | German sister of the Cistercian order | ||
| May 14th | Tahmasp I. | second Shah of the Safavid dynasty | 62 | |
| May 26 | Vincenzo Danti | Italian sculptor, goldsmith, military architect and poet of the Florentine school | ||
| May 27th | Ludwig von Boisot | Dutch admiral, Lord on Ruart | ||
| May 29th | Petrus Paganus | New Latin poet, humanist and wine drinker | 44 | 
June
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23rd June | Levina Teerlinc | Dutch painter at the English court | ||
| June 29th | Franciscus Sonnius | first bishop of Antwerp | 69 | 
July
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2nd July | Josias Simler | Swiss theologian and national historian | 45 | |
| 5th July | Volcher coiter | Dutch doctor, anatomist and ornithologist | ||
| 7th of July | Thomas Matthias | Berlin Mayor | ||
| July 11th | Eleonora of Toledo | Daughter of Garcia of Toledo and niece of her aunt of the same name | ||
| July 11th | Simon Musaeus | Protestant theologian and reformer | 55 | |
| 16th of July | Isabella de 'Medici | Daughter of Cosimo I de 'Medici, the first Grand Duke of Tuscany and Eleonora of Toledo | 33 | |
| 30th July | Hans Staden | German Landsknecht in the service of Portuguese conquistadors and explorers | 
August
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15th of August | Valentin Bakfark | Hungarian lutenist and composer of the Renaissance | ||
| 20th of August | Petrus Bockelmann | German Lutheran theologian | 71 | |
| August 27 | Titian | Chief master of the Venetian school of painting and finisher of a new coloristic trend | 
September
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 11 | Mario Carafa | Archbishop of Naples | ||
| 21st September | Gerolamo Cardano | Italian doctor and mathematician | 74 | |
| September 22 | Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex | British nobleman, 1st Earl of Essex, 2nd Viscount Hereford and 10th Baron Ferrers of Chartley | 
October
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 7th | Marteinn Einarsson | Icelandic clergyman, Bishop of Skálholt | ||
| October 12th | Maximilian II | Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia and Hungary | 49 | |
| October 12th | Adam Neuser | German theologian | ||
| October 14th | Konrad Heresbach | German humanist | 80 | |
| the 20th of October | George Gordon, 5th Earl of Huntly | Member of the Scottish nobility | ||
| October 26th | Friedrich III. | Elector Palatinate | 61 | 
November
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 27th | Georg Parsimonius | Protestant theologian, reformer and confessionalist | ||
| November 28th | Hans Truchsess from Höfingen | Württemberg councilor and bailiff of Tübingen | ||
| 30th of November | Wolfgang Hilliger | German gun and bell founder | 65 | 
December
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11th December | Joachim Hopper | Dutch lawyer and statesman | 53 | |
| 20th of December | Henri de Saint-Sulpice | Mignons of the French King Henry III. | ||
| 21st December | Otto IV. | Count of Holstein-Pinneberg | ||
| 21st December | Juan Alfonso de Polanco | Secretary of the First Superior General of the Society of Jesus | 
Date unknown
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schlomo Alkabez | Kabbalist and mystical poet | |||
| Josquin Baston | Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance | |||
| Cristóbal de las Casas | Spanish Italianist and lexicographer | |||
| Adam de Craponne | French engineer | |||
| Basil Faber | German educator | |||
| Estêvão da Gama | Portuguese governor of India | |||
| Francisco Giralte | Spanish sculptor | |||
| Conrad Haas | Military technician and missile pioneer | |||
| Heini Havreki | first provost of the Faroe Islands after the Reformation in the Faroe Islands | |||
| Georg von Holle | German Landsknechtsführer | |||
| Augustin Jamund | Lithuanian Lutheran clergyman | |||
| Heinrich Lersner | Hessian politician | |||
| Aloisius Lilius | Medical doctor who taught at the University of Perugia | |||
| Melchior Manlich | Augsburg merchant | |||
| Girolamo Muzio | Italian writer | |||
| Mario Nizolio | Italian philosopher | |||
| Mauritius piderite | Lutheran theologian | |||
| Livio Sanuto | Italian cosmographer and mathematician | |||
| Charles Stewart, 1st Earl of Lennox | Scottish nobleman | |||
| Simon Titius | German medic and physicist | |||
| Johann von Viermund | Electoral Cologne bailiff and hereditary bailiff of Uerdingen | |||
| Achaz II of Zehmen | Prussian civil servant in the Prussian Royal Share and in the Duchy of Prussia | 
