Editing 1572 (section)

== Deaths ==
[[File:El Greco 050.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Pope Pius V]]]]
[[File:明穆宗画像.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Longqing Emperor]] of China]]
[[File:Cranach the Younger Sigismund II Augustus.jpg|thumb|110px|King [[Sigismund II Augustus]] of Poland]]
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| footer = Saint [[John of Cologne]] and [[Martyrs of Gorkum]] died on [[July 7]], 1572
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[[File:Miguel López de Legazpi, en La Hormiga de Oro.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Miguel Lopez de Legazpi]]]]
[[File:Gaspard de Coligny 1517 1572.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Gaspard II de Coligny|Gaspard de Coligny]]]]
[[File:San Francisco de Borja.jpg|thumb|110px|Saint [[Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía|Francis Borgia]]]]
* [[January 22]] &ndash; [[Henry VI, Burgrave of Plauen]] (b. [[1536]])
* [[January 26]] &ndash; [[Pierre de Monte]], French 50th Grandmaster of the [[Knights Hospitaller]] (b. [[1499]])
* [[February 21]] &ndash; [[Cho Shik]], Korean Confucian scholar and politician (b. [[1501]])
* [[February 23]] &ndash; [[Pierre Certon]], French composer (b. c. [[1510]])
* [[February 26]] &ndash; [[Pedro Agustín]], Spanish [[Roman Catholic]] bishop (b. [[1512]])
* [[February 28]]
** [[Aegidius Tschudi]], Swiss historian (b. [[1505]])
** [[Catherine of Austria, Queen of Poland]] (b. [[1533]])
** [[Udai Singh II]], King of Mewar (b. [[1522]])
* [[March 2]] &ndash; [[Mem de Sá]], Portuguese Governor-General of Brazil (b. c. [[1500]])
* [[March 10]] &ndash; [[William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester]] (b. c. [[1483]])
* [[March 27]] &ndash; [[Girolamo Maggi]], Italian [[Polymath|Renaissance man]] (b. c. [[1523]])
* [[April 2]] &ndash; [[Elisabeth of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Duchess of Guelders]] (1518–1538) (b. [[1494]])
* [[May 1]] &ndash; [[Pope Pius V]] (b. [[1504]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Saint Pius V {{!}} pope {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Pius-V |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=23 April 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[May 11]] &ndash; [[Moses Isserles]], Polish Jewish rabbi and Talmudist (b. [[1530]])
* [[June 2]] &ndash; [[Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk]] (executed) (b. [[1536]])
* [[June 9]] &ndash; [[Jeanne d'Albret]], Queen of Navarre (b. [[1528]])
* [[June 28]] &ndash; [[Johannes Goropius Becanus]], Dutch physician, linguist, and humanist (b. [[1519]])
* [[July 5]] &ndash; [[Longqing Emperor]] of China (b. [[1537]])
* [[July 7]] &ndash; King [[Sigismund II Augustus]] of Poland (b. [[1520]])
* [[July 9]]
** [[John of Cologne]], Dutch [[Franciscan]] friar, martyr and saint (b. [[1510]])
** [[Martyrs of Gorkum]] (b. Dutch nationality)
** [[Nicholas Pieck]], Dutch Franciscan friar, martyr and saint (b. [[1534]])
* [[July 25]] &ndash; [[Isaac Luria]], Palestinian-born Jewish Kabbalist (b. [[1534]])
* [[August 20]] &ndash; [[Miguel López de Legazpi]], Spanish conquistador (b. [[1502]])
* [[August 24]]
** [[Gaspard II de Coligny|Gaspard de Coligny]], French [[Protestant]] leader (b. [[1519]])
** [[Charles de Téligny]], French soldier and diplomat (b. [[1535]])
* [[August 26]] &ndash; [[Petrus Ramus|Pierre de la Ramée]], French humanist scholar (b. [[1515]])
* August &ndash; [[Claude Goudimel]], French composer (b. [[1510]])
* September &ndash; [[Denis Lambin]], French classical scholar (b. [[1520]])
* [[September 19]] &ndash; [[Archduchess Barbara of Austria]] (b. [[1539]])
* [[September 24]] &ndash; [[Túpac Amaru]], last of the Incas
* [[September 30]] &ndash; [[Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía|Francis Borgia]], Italian [[Jesuit]] priest and saint (b. [[1510]])
* [[October 24]] &ndash; [[Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby]], English politician (b. [[1508]])
* [[October 25]] &ndash; [[Cosimo Bartoli]], Italian diplomat and writer (b. [[1503]])
* [[October 29]] &ndash; [[John Erskine, Earl of Mar (d. 1572)|John Erskine, Earl of Mar]], regent of Scotland
* [[November 9]] &ndash; [[Al-Mutahhar]], Imam of the Zaidi state of Yemen (b. [[1503]])
* [[November 12]] &ndash; [[Henry of Stolberg]], German nobleman (b. [[1509]])
* [[November 23]] &ndash; [[Bronzino|Agnolo di Cosimo (Bronzino)]], Italian artist and poet (b. [[1503]])
* [[November 24]] &ndash; [[John Knox]], Scottish religious reformer (b. [[1513]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Jasper Godwin Ridley|title=John Knox|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XoMcAAAAMAAJ|year=1968|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-821373-4|page=517}}</ref>
* [[December 2]] &ndash; [[Ippolito II d'Este]], Italian cardinal and statesman (b. [[1509]])
* [[December 12]] &ndash; [[Loredana Marcello]], Venetian dogaressa and botanist 
* [[December 22]] &ndash; [[François Clouet]], French miniaturist (b. c. [[1510]])
* [[December 23]] &ndash; [[Johann Sylvan]], Reformed German theologian (executed; date of birth unknown)<ref>{{BBKL|s/s4/sylvan_j}}</ref>
* ''date unknown''
** [[Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski]], Polish scholar (b. [[1503]])
** [[Francisco de Moraes]], Portuguese author and writer (b. [[1500]])
** [[Yasumi Naomasa]], Japanese military commander
** [[Stanisław Zamoyski]], Polish nobleman (b. [[1519]])
* ''probable'' &ndash; [[Christopher Tye]], English composer and organist (b. [[1505]])