Events
Births
Marriages
Deaths
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7 January - Catherine of Aragon, queen of Henry VIII of England (b. 1485)
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22 January - Bernhard Knipperdolling, Münster Rebellion leader
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17 May - George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford, English diplomat
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19 May - Anne Boleyn, queen of Henry VIII of England (executed)
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18 June - Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, illegitimate son of Henry VIII of England (b. 1519)
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12 July - Erasmus of Rotterdam, Dutch writer and philosopher
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September 25 - Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet (b. 1511)
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October 6 - William Tyndale, Protestant scholar (burned at the stake)
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December 21 - Sir John Seymour, English courtier
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Garcilaso de la Vega, Spanish poet (b. 1503)