Editing 1543 (section)

== Deaths ==
[[File:Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo]]]]
[[File:Nikolaus Kopernikus.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Nicolaus Copernicus]]]]
[[File:Hans Holbein the Younger, self-portrait.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Hans Holbein the Younger]]]]
[[File:GianMatteoGiberti.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Gian Matteo Giberti]]]]
* [[January 2]] &ndash; [[Francesco Canova da Milano]], Italian composer (b. [[1497]])
* [[January 3]] &ndash; [[Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo]], Portuguese explorer (b. [[1499]])
* [[January 9]] &ndash; [[Guillaume du Bellay]], French diplomat and general (b. [[1491]])
* [[February 13]] &ndash; [[Johann Eck]], German Scholastic theologian (b. [[1486]])
* [[February 21]] &ndash; [[Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi]], Imam of [[Adal Sultanate|Adal]] (in battle) (b. c. [[1506]])
* [[March 2]] &ndash; [[John Neville, 3rd Baron Latimer]], English politician (b. [[1493]])
* [[March 6]] &ndash; [[Baccio D'Agnolo]], Florentine woodcarver (b. [[1460]])
* [[April 23]] &ndash; [[Susanna of Bavaria]], German noble, House of Wittelsbach (b. [[1502]])
* [[May 24]] &ndash; [[Nicolaus Copernicus]], Polish mathematician and astronomer (b. [[1473]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Paul F. Grendler|title=Encyclopedia of the Renaissance: Class-Furió Ceriol|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a43rAAAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Scribner's published|isbn=978-0-684-80509-2|page=83}}</ref>
* [[June 27]] &ndash; [[Agnolo Firenzuola]], Italian poet (b. [[1493]])
* [[July 19]] &ndash; [[Mary Boleyn]], English courtier, mistress of Kings [[Francis I of France]] and [[Henry VIII of England]] (b. [[1500]])<ref>{{cite book|author=George Edward Cokayne|title=The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom: Bass to Canning|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WgsMAQAAMAAJ|year=1912|publisher=St. Catherine Press, Limited|page=146}}</ref>
* [[August 1]] &ndash; [[Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg]], German noble (b. [[1470]])
* [[August 29]] &ndash; [[Maria of Jülich-Berg]], German duchess, Spouse of John III, Duke of Cleves (b. [[1491]])
* [[September 2]] &ndash; Sultan [[Quli Qutb Mulk]], founder of the Qutb Shahi dynasty of Golconda (b. [[1470]])
* [[September 20]] &ndash; [[Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland]] (b. [[1492]])
* [[September 23]] &ndash; [[Johanna of Hachberg-Sausenberg]], countess regnant of Neuchatel (b. [[1485]])
* [[November 29]] &ndash; [[Hans Holbein the Younger]], German artist, active in England<ref>{{cite book|author=Norbert Wolf|title=Hans Holbein the Younger, 1497/98-1543: The German Raphael|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xklcDZTnAAAC&pg=PA95|year=2004|publisher=Taschen|isbn=978-3-8228-3167-0|pages=95}}</ref>
* [[December 27]] &ndash; [[George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach]] (b. [[1484]])
* [[December 29]] &ndash; [[Maria Salviati]], Italian noble (b. [[1499]])
* [[December 30]] &ndash; [[Gian Matteo Giberti]], Italian Catholic bishop (b. [[1495]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Polidoro da Caravaggio]], Italian painter (b. [[1492]]; murdered)<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28421/28421-h/28421-h.htm#Page_173|title=Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects|volume=5 (of 10) Andrea da Fiesole to Lorenzo Lotto|author=Giorgio Vasari|publisher=Project Gutenberg|author-link=Giorgio Vasari}}</ref>
** [[Madeleine Lartessuti]], French shipper and banker (b. [[1478]])
** [[Al-Mutawakkil III]], last caliph of the Cairo-based Abbasid caliphate
** [[Sehzade Mehmed]], Ottoman prince (b. [[1521]])
* ''probable''
** [[Sebastian Franck]], German freethinker (b. [[1515]])
** [[Margaret Lee (lady-in-waiting)|Margaret Lee]], English courtier, sister of poet Thomas Wyatt (b. [[1506]])