Editing 1494 (section)

== Births ==
[[File:EmperorSuleiman.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Suleiman the Magnificent]]]]
[[File:François Ier Louvre.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Francis I of France]]]]
* [[February 2]] &ndash; [[Bona Sforza]], queen of [[Sigismund I the Old|Sigismund I of Poland]] (d. [[1557]])
* [[February 11]] &ndash; [[Takeda Nobutora]], Japanese warlord (d. [[1574]])
* [[February 20]] &ndash; [[Johan Friis]], Danish statesman (d. [[1570]])
* [[March 24]] &ndash; [[Georgius Agricola]], German mineralogist and scholar (d. [[1555]])
* [[March 25]] &ndash; [[Elisabeth of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach]], Margravine (d. [[1518]])
* [[April 4]] &ndash; [[Ambrosius Moibanus]], German theologian (d. [[1554]])
* [[April 20]] &ndash; [[Johannes Agricola]], German Protestant reformer (d. [[1566]])
* [[April 25]] &ndash; [[Juan Téllez-Girón, 4th Count of Ureña]], Spanish count (d. [[1558]])
* [[May 24]] &ndash; [[Pontormo]], Italian painter (d. [[1557]])
* [[August 18]] &ndash; [[Johannes Scheubel]], German mathematician (d. [[1570]])
* [[September 8]] &ndash; [[Sri Chand]], Indian founder of the ascetic sect of Udasi (d. [[1629]])
* [[September 11]] &ndash; [[Elisabeth of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Duchess of Guelders]] (1518–1538) (d. [[1572]])
* [[September 12]] &ndash; King [[Francis I of France]] (d. [[1547]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Francis I {{!}} king of France |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francis-I-king-of-France |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=10 April 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[October 31]] &ndash; [[Wolfgang of the Palatinate]], Count Palatine of Neumarkt (1524–1558), governor of the Upper Palatinate (d. [[1558]])
* [[November 5]] &ndash; [[Hans Sachs]], German meistersinger ("mastersinger") (d. [[1576]])
* [[November 6]] &ndash; [[Suleiman the Magnificent]], [[Ottoman Sultan]] (d. [[1566]])
* [[November 12]] &ndash; [[Margaret of Anhalt-Köthen]], Princess of Anhalt by birth, Duchess consort of Saxony (d. [[1521]])
* [[November]] (''probable'') &ndash; [[François Rabelais]], French Renaissance writer (d. [[1553]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Alonso Álvarez de Pineda]], Spanish  explorer and cartographer (d. [[1519]])
** [[Christina Gyllenstierna]], Swedish national heroine (d. [[1559]])
** [[Ambrosius Holbein]], German painter (d. [[1519]])
** [[Qiu Ying]], Chinese painter (d. [[1552]])
** [[Saitō Dōsan]], Japanese warlord (d. [[1556]])
** [[John Sutton, 3rd Baron Dudley]] (d. [[1554]])
** [[Hans Tausen]], Danish religious reformer (d. [[1561]])