Editing 1553 (section)

== Deaths ==
[[File:Portrait of Edward VI of England.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Edward VI of England]]]]
[[File:Michael Servetus.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Michael Servetus]]]]
* [[January 13]] &ndash; [[George II, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels]], Count of Glatz (b. [[1512]])
* [[February 4]] &ndash; [[Caspar Othmayr]], German Protestant priest, theologian and composer (b. [[1515]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Vendrix |first1=Philippe |title=Music and the Renaissance: Renaissance, Reformation and Counter-Reformation |date=5 July 2017 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-351-55750-4 |page=202 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AzcrDwAAQBAJ&dq=Caspar+Othmayr+%224+februar+1553%22&pg=PA108 |access-date=9 October 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[February 6]] &ndash; [[Ernest, Margrave of Baden-Durlach]] (b. [[1482]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Ernst |url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/gnd116563710.html#ndbcontent |website=www.deutsche-biographie.de |access-date=9 October 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[February 8]] &ndash; [[John Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Coburg]], (b. [[1521]])
* [[February 17]] &ndash; [[Chamaraja Wodeyar III]], King of Mysore (b. [[1492]])
* [[February 19]] &ndash; [[Erasmus Reinhold]], German astronomer and mathematician (b. [[1511]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Morton |first1=Edward John Chalmers |title=Heroes of Science: Astronomers |date=1882 |publisher=Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge |page=63 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=al0BAAAAQAAJ&dq=Erasmus+Reinhold+%2219+february+1553%27&pg=PA63 |access-date=9 October 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[February 25]] &ndash; [[Hirate Masahide]], Japanese diplomat and tutor of [[Oda Nobunaga]] (suicide) (b. [[1492]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rankin |first1=Andrew |title=Seppuku: A History of Samurai Suicide |date=20 November 2012 |publisher=Kodansha USA |isbn=978-1-56836-448-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jl4qDwAAQBAJ&dq=Hirate+Masahide+25+february+1553&pg=PT94 |access-date=9 October 2023 |language=en|quote=An early instance of a remonstrative seppuku, recorded by Ōta Gyuichi in his biography of Oda Nobunaga, was the death of Hirate Masahide on February 25, 1553. A former general, in his sixties Masahide served as personal tutor to the young Nobunaga, whose teenage bad-boy antics are legendary in Japan.}}</ref>
* April &ndash; [[Minkhaung of Prome]], last king of [[Prome Kingdom|Prome]] in Burma (Myanmar)
* [[April 9]] &ndash; [[François Rabelais]], French writer<ref>{{cite book|author=Jean Plattard|title=The Life of Fran ̧cois Rabelais|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kpk1WL4aPfwC&pg=PA3|date=April 1968|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-7146-2077-0|pages=3}}</ref>
* [[May 5]] &ndash; [[Erasmus Alberus]], German humanist (b. [[1500]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mohnike |first1=Gottlieb |title=Hymnologische Forschungen |date=1831 |publisher=Struck |page=29 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P2lFAAAAcAAJ&dq=Erasmus+Alberus+%225+may+1553%22&pg=PA29 |access-date=9 October 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[May 28]] &ndash; [[Johannes Aal]], Swiss theologian (b. [[1500]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Aal, Johannes |url=https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/011462/2001-01-24/ |website=hls-dhs-dss.ch |access-date=9 October 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[June 26]] &ndash; [[Tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich of Russia (1552–1553)|Tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich of Russia]], Grand Prince of Moscow (b. [[1552]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Донской |first1=Дмитрий Владимирович |title=Рюриковичи: исторический словарь |date=2008 |publisher=Русская панорама |isbn=978-5-93165-188-0 |page=273 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y6M-AQAAIAAJ&q=%D0%94%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9+%D0%98%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87+%C2%AB26+%D0%B8%D1%8E%D0%BD%D1%8F+1553+%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0%C2%BB |access-date=9 October 2023 |language=ru}}</ref>
* [[July 6]] &ndash; King [[Edward VI of England]] (b. [[1537]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Former Director of the Warburg Institute and Professor Emeritus of the History of Classical Tradition J B Trapp|title=[[The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain]]|year=1998|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-57346-7|pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=rOzUl7TCL9QC&pg=PA176 176]}}</ref>
* [[July 9]] &ndash; [[Maurice, Elector of Saxony]] (b. [[1521]])<ref name="Lindsay1999"/>
* [[July 16]] &ndash; [[Bernardino Maffei]], Catholic cardinal (b. [[1514]])<ref>{{cite web |title=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of April 8, 1549 |url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1549.htm#Maffei |website=cardinals.fiu.edu |access-date=9 October 2023}}</ref>
* [[August 6]] &ndash; [[Girolamo Fracastoro]], Italian physician (b. [[1478]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gelmetti |first1=Carlo |title=Storia della Dermatologia e della Venereologia in Italia |date=13 April 2015 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-88-470-5717-3 |page=159 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AAtJCAAAQBAJ&dq=Girolamo+Fracastoro+%226+agosto+1553%22&pg=PA159 |access-date=9 October 2023 |language=it}}</ref>
* [[August 17]] &ndash; [[Charles III, Duke of Savoy]] (b. [[1486]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Savoyen, Karl II. (III.) von |url=https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/021443/2011-01-28/ |website=hls-dhs-dss.ch |access-date=9 October 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[August 22]] &ndash; [[John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland]] (b. [[1502]]; executed)<ref>{{cite ODNB |title=Dudley, John |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-8156|year=2004 |access-date=9 October 2023 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/8156}}</ref>
* [[September 6]] &ndash; [[Juan de Homedes y Coscon]], 47th Grandmaster of the [[Knights Hospitaller]] (b. c. [[1477]])<ref>{{cite book |title=La soberana Orden militar de San Juan de Jerusalén ó de Malta: noticia de su historia y de su organización, por un caballero de la orden |date=1899 |publisher=Sucesores de Rivadeneyra |page=51 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vU1RAQAAMAAJ&dq=Juan+de+Homedes+%226+de+septiembre+de+1553%22&pg=PA51 |access-date=9 October 2023 |language=es}}</ref>
* [[October 6]] &ndash; [[Şehzade Mustafa]], Suleiman the Magnificent's first-born son by Mahidevran Hatun (b. [[1515]])<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Atçil |first1=Zahit |title=Why Did Süleyman the Magnificent Execute His Son Şehzade Mustafa in 1553? |journal=Osmanlı Araştırmaları |date=27 July 2016 |volume=48 |issue=48 |pages=67–103 |doi=10.18589/oa.586488 |url=https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/oa/issue/47402/586488 |language=en |issn=0255-0636}}</ref>
* [[October 7]] &ndash; [[Cristóbal de Morales]], Spanish composer (b. [[1500]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Paul Henry Lang|title=Music in Western Civilization|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W_YLAQAAIAAJ|year=1941|publisher=W. W. Norton, Incorporated|page=266|language=en}}</ref>
* [[October 16]] &ndash; [[Lucas Cranach the Elder]], German painter (b. [[1472]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Brinkmann |first1=Bodo |title=Lucas Cranach |date=2007 |publisher=Harry N. Abrams |isbn=978-1-905711-13-0 |page=24 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BYrqAAAAMAAJ&q=16%20october%201553%22 |access-date=9 October 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[October 17]] &ndash; [[George III, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau]], German prince (b. [[1507]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jammerthal |first1=Tobias |last2=Janssen |first2=David Burkhart |title=Georg III. von Anhalt: Abendmahlsschriften |date=1 September 2019 |publisher=Evangelische Verlagsanstalt |isbn=978-3-374-06295-9 |page=16 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RzYjEAAAQBAJ&q=%2217%20oktober%201553%22 |access-date=9 October 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[October 27]] &ndash; [[Michael Servetus]], Spanish Protestant theologian (burned at the stake) (b. [[1511]])<ref name="michael" />
* [[October 28]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Salviati]], Italian Catholic cardinal (b. [[1490]])<ref>{{cite web |title=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of July 1, 1517 |url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1517-ii.htm#Salviati |website=cardinals.fiu.edu |access-date=9 October 2023}}</ref>
* [[October 30]] &ndash; [[Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck]], German statesman and reformer (b. [[1489]])<ref>{{cite book |last=Manchot|first=Carl|title=Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck: Straßburgs großer Stettmeister und Scholasch : Standrede gehalten in Straßburg |date=1870 |publisher=Henschel |page=v |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mKFSAAAAcAAJ&dq=Jacob+Sturm+von+Sturmeck+%2230+oktober+1553%22&pg=PR5 |access-date=9 October 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[November 15]] &ndash; [[Lucrezia de' Medici (1470–1553)|Lucrezia de' Medici]], Italian noblewoman (b. [[1470]])
* [[November 23]] &ndash; [[Sebastiano Antonio Pighini]], Italian cardinal (b. [[1500]])<ref>{{cite web |title=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of November 20, 1551 |url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1551-ii.htm#Pighini |website=cardinals.fiu.edu |access-date=9 October 2023}}</ref>
* [[November 27]] &ndash; [[Şehzade Cihangir]], Ottoman prince (b. [[1531]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Atıl |first1=Esin |title=Süleymanname: The Illustrated History of Süleyman the Magnificent |date=1986 |publisher=National Gallery of Art |isbn=978-0-89468-088-5 |page=221 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pPwgAQAAMAAJ&q=%2227%20november%22 |access-date=9 October 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[December 3]] &ndash; [[Ludwig of Hanau-Lichtenberg]], German nobleman (b. [[1487]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft |date=1905 |publisher=Verlag von W. Spemann |page=470 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MXlFAQAAMAAJ&q=%223%20dezember%22 |access-date=9 October 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[December 25]] &ndash; [[Pedro de Valdivia]], Spanish conquistador (b. [[1497]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Boletín del Centro de Estudios Americanistas de Sevilla |date=1923 |publisher=Centro de Estudios Americanistas de Sevilla |page=48 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ftk3AQAAIAAJ&dq=Pedro+de+Valdivia+%2225+de+diciembre+de+1553%22&pg=RA8-PA48 |access-date=9 October 2023 |language=es}}</ref>
* ''date unknown'' 
** [[George Joye]], English [[Protestant]] [[List of Bible translators|Bible translator]] (b. c. [[1495]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Butterworth |first1=Charles C. |last2=Chester |first2=Allan G. |title=George Joye, 1495?-1553; a chapter in the history of the English Bible and the English Reformation |date=1962 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |location=Philadelphia |page=259 |url=https://archive.org/details/georgejoye14951500butt/page/258/mode/2up?q=1553 |access-date=9 October 2023}}</ref>
** [[Gunilla Bese]], Finnish noble and fiefholder (b. [[1475]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Gunilla Johansdotter (Bese) |url=https://www.skbl.se/en/article/GunillaJohansdotterBese |website=skbl.se |access-date=9 October 2023}}</ref>