Famous Deaths for Year 1572
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Months in Year 1572: February March May June July August September October November December
Deaths 1 - 30 of 30
Feb 23rd - Pierre Certon, French composer
Feb 28th - Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian (b. 1505)
Mar 2nd - Mem de Sá, Portuguese Governor-General of Brazil
Mar 27th - Girolamo Maggi, Italian Renaissance man (b. abt. 1523)
May 1st - Pius V, [Antonio Ghislieri], great-inquisiteur/Pope (1566-72), dies
Jun 2nd - Thomas Howard 4th duke of Norfolk, English Earl, executed at 36
Jun 7th - August I [Sigismund II August], king of Poland (1548-72), dies at 42
Jun 9th - Jeanne d'Albret, queen of Navarra, dies at 44
Jun 24th - Adrianus van Gouda, lay brother, hanged
Jun 24th - Cornelis van Diest, lay brother, hanged
Jun 24th - Daniel van Arendonck, clergyman, hanged
Jun 24th - Joannes van Naarden, priest, hanged
Jun 24th - Ludovicus Voets, priest, hanged
Jul 7th - Sigismund II August, last Jagellonen king of Poland, dies at 51
Aug 5th - Isaac Luria, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. 1534)
Aug 20th - Miguel López de Legazpi, Spanish conquistador (b. 1502)
Aug 22nd - Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland (b. 1528)
Aug 24th - Gaspard de Châtillon, Count the Coligny, French gen/admiral and Huguenot leader, beheaded
Aug 24th - Death of thousands of French Protestants by Roman Catholics in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, beginning in Paris
Aug 24th - Pierre de la Ramée, French humanist (b. 1515)
Aug 24th - Charles de Téligny, French Huguenot soldier (bc. 1535)
Aug 26th - Petrus Ramus, French philosopher (b. 1515)
Aug 27th - Claude Goudimel, French composer
Sep 5th - Pieter Tichelmann, Flemish Franciscan, dies at about 71
Sep 30th - Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía and Jesuit priest, dies at 61
Oct 24th - Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, English politician (bc. 1508)
Nov 23rd - Agnolo di Cosimo, Italian artist and poet (b. 1503)
Nov 24th - John Knox, Scottish preacher, dies at about 67
Dec 10th - Cornelis Musius, Dutch humanist/poet, murdered at 72
Dec 30th - Galeazzo Alessi, Italian architect (Palazza Marino, Milan), dies at 60
