Editing 1571 (section)

== Deaths ==
[[File:Hans Asper.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Hans Asper]]]]
* [[January 3]] 
** [[Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg]] (b. [[1505]])
** [[Yi Hwang]], Korean Neo-Confucian scholar, (b.[[1502]])
* [[January 9]] &ndash; [[Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon]], French naval officer (b. [[1510]])
* [[January 13]] &ndash; [[John, Margrave of Brandenburg-Küstrin]] (b. [[1513]])
* [[January 19]] &ndash; [[Paris Bordone]], Venetian painter (b. [[1495]])
* [[February 12]] &ndash; [[Nicholas Throckmorton]], English diplomat and politician (b. [[1515]])
* [[February 13]] &ndash; [[Benvenuto Cellini]], Italian artist (b. [[1500]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Sir John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy|title=An Introduction to Italian Sculpture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xW3qAAAAMAAJ|year=1963|publisher=Phaidon Press|page=70}}</ref>
* [[March 6]] &ndash; [[Tsukahara Bokuden]], Japanese swordsman (b. [[1489]])
* [[March 14]] &ndash; [[John Sigismund Zápolya]], King of Hungary (b. [[1540]])
* [[March 21]] 
** [[Odet de Coligny]], French cardinal and Protestant (b. [[1517]])
** [[Hans Asper]], Swiss painter (b. [[1499]])
* [[April 6]] &ndash; [[John Hamilton (archbishop of St Andrews)|John Hamilton]], Scottish prelate and politician (b. [[1511]])
* [[May 4]] &ndash; [[Pierre Viret]], Swiss theologian (b. [[1511]])
* [[May 29]] &ndash; [[Joachim Mörlin]], German Lutheran bishop (b. [[1514]])
* [[June 1]] &ndash; [[John Story (martyr)|John Story]], English Catholic (martyred) (b. [[1504]])
* [[June 3]] &ndash; [[Tarik Sulayman]], Filipino chieftain
* [[June 7]] &ndash; [[Francesco Corteccia]], Italian composer (b. [[1502]])
* [[July 6]] &ndash; [[Mōri Motonari]], Japanese warlord (b. [[1497]])
* [[July 15]] &ndash; [[Shimazu Takahisa]], Japanese samurai and warlord (b. [[1514]])
* [[July 17]] &ndash; [[Georg Fabricius]], German poet (b. [[1516]])<ref>{{cite EB1911|wstitle= Fabricius, Georg |volume= 10 | page= 119 |quote= ....where he died on the 17th of July 1571}}</ref>
* [[August 17]] &ndash; [[Marco Antonio Bragadin]], Venetian lawyer and military officer (b. [[1523]])
* [[September 4]] &ndash; [[Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox]] (b. [[1516]])
* [[September 23]] &ndash; [[John Jewel]], English Anglican bishop (b. [[1522]])
* [[October 7]]
** [[Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg]], Danish queen, consort of [[Christian III of Denmark]] (b. [[1511]])
** [[Müezzinzade Ali Pasha]], Ottoman statesmen and naval officer
* [[November 24]] &ndash; [[Jan Blahoslav]], Czech writer (b. [[1523]])
* [[December 14]] &ndash; [[Lorenzo Strozzi]], Italian Catholic cardinal (b. [[1513]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Titu Cusi]], Incan ruler (b. [[1529]])
** [[Anna Vigfúsdóttir á Stóru-Borg]], Icelandic landowner
** [[Setthathirath]], Laotian king of [[Lan Na]] and [[Lan Xang]] (b. [[1534]])