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== Births ==
* [[February 16]] &ndash; [[Philip Melanchthon]], German humanist and reformer (d. [[1560]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Timothy Wengert|author2=M. Patrick Graham|title=Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560) and the Commentary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Io_YAAAAMAAJ|date=1 October 1997|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic|isbn=978-1-85075-684-2|page=7}}</ref>
* [[February 19]] &ndash; [[Matthäus Schwarz]], German fashion writer (d. [[1574]])
* March &ndash; [[Giovanni Paolo I Sforza]], Italian condottiero (d. [[1535]])
* [[April 2]] &ndash; [[Georg Giese]], German merchant (d. [[1562]])
* [[April 16]] &ndash; [[Mōri Motonari]], Japanese daimyō (d. [[1571]])
* [[April 17]] &ndash; [[Pedro de Valdivia]], Spanish conquistador (d. [[1553]])
* [[May 3]] &ndash; [[Wilhelm IV of Eberstein]], President of the Reichskammergericht (d. [[1562]])
* [[May 21]] &ndash; [[Al-Hattab]], Tripolitanian Muslim jurist (d. [[1547]])
* [[June 27]] &ndash; [[Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg]] (d. [[1546]])
* [[July 15]] &ndash; [[Francis of Denmark]], Danish prince (d. [[1511]])
* [[August 18]] &ndash; [[Francesco Canova da Milano]], Italian composer (d. [[1543]])
* [[September 10]] &ndash; [[Wolfgang Musculus]], German theologian (d. [[1563]])
* [[October 29]] &ndash; [[Benedetto Accolti the Younger]], Italian cardinal (d. [[1549]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Jean Fernel]], French physician (d. [[1558]])<ref>{{cite journal |last1=BONO |first1=JAMES J. |last2=SCHMITT |first2=CHARLES B. |title=AN UNKNOWN LETTER OF JACQUES DALÉCHAMPS TO JEAN FERNEL: LOCAL AUTONOMY VERSUS CENTRALIZED GOVERNMENT |journal=Bulletin of the History of Medicine |date=1979 |volume=53 |issue=1 |pages=100–127 |jstor=44451300 |pmid=387127 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/44451300.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/44451300.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |issn=0007-5140}}</ref>
** [[Gonzalo de Sandoval]], Spanish conquistador (d. [[1528]])
** [[Margareta Eriksdotter Vasa]], Swedish noblewoman (d. [[1536]])
** [[Johann Wild]], German preacher (d. [[1554]])
* ''probable''
** [[Francesco Berni]], Italian poet (d. [[1536]])
** [[John Heywood]], English playwright (d. [[1580]])