Editing 1502 (section)

== Births ==
[[File:Johann und Elisabeth.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Elisabeth of Hesse, Hereditary Princess of Saxony]]]]
[[File:John Leland.jpg|thumb|110px|[[John Leland (antiquary)|John Leland]]]]
*[[January 3]] &ndash; [[Yi Hwang]], Korean Neo-Confucian scholar (d.[[1571]])
* [[January 7]] (Julian) (January 17 Gregorian)&ndash; [[Pope Gregory XIII]], born Ugo Boncompagni, Bolognese-born pontiff (d. [[1585]])<ref>{{cite EB1911|wstitle= Gregory (Popes)/Gregory XIII |volume= 12 | page= 575 |quote= Gregory XIII. (Ugo Buoncompagno), pope from 1572 to 1585, was born on the 7th of January 1502, in Bologna}}</ref>
* [[January 20]] &ndash; [[Sebastian de Aparicio]], Spanish colonial industrialist and saint in Mexico (d. [[1600]])
* [[February 2]] &ndash; [[Damião de Góis]], Portuguese philosopher (d. [[1574]])
* [[March 4]] &ndash; [[Elisabeth of Hesse, Hereditary Princess of Saxony]] (d. [[1557]])
* [[March 18]] &ndash; [[Philibert of Chalon]], French nobleman (d. [[1530]])
* [[March 20]] &ndash; [[Pierino Belli]], Italian soldier and jurist (d. [[1575]])
* [[April 2]] &ndash; [[Susanna of Bavaria]], German noble of the House of Wittelsbach (d. [[1543]])
* [[April 10]] &ndash; [[Otto Henry, Elector Palatine|Otto Henry]], Count Palatine of Neuburg (1505–1559) and Elector Palatine (1556–1559) (d. [[1559]])
* [[April 25]] &ndash; [[Georg Major]], German Lutheran theologian (d. [[1574]])
* [[June 2]] &ndash; [[Guillaume Bigot]], French writer (d. [[1550]])
* [[June 6]] &ndash; King [[John III of Portugal]] (d. [[1557]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia Americana: Jefferson to Latin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l_cWAQAAMAAJ|year=2006|publisher=Scholastic Library Pub.|isbn=978-0-7172-0139-6|page=113}}</ref>
* [[July 26]] &ndash; [[Christian Egenolff]], German printer (d. [[1555]])
* [[July 27]] &ndash; [[Francesco Corteccia]], Italian composer (d. [[1571]])
* [[August 14]] &ndash; [[Pieter Coecke van Aelst]], Flemish painter (d. [[1550]])
* [[September 14]] &ndash; [[Louis II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken]], Duke of Zweibrücken from 1514 to 1532 (d. [[1532]])
* [[December 6]] &ndash; [[Anna of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1502–1568)|Anna of Brunswick-Lüneburg]], Duchess consort of Pomerania (d. [[1568]])
* [[December 13]] &ndash; [[George III, Landgrave of Leuchtenberg]] (d. [[1555]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Takeno Jōō]], Japanese Sengoku period master of the tea ceremony and merchant (d. [[1555]])
** [[Miguel López de Legazpi]], Spanish conquistador (d. [[1572]])
** [[Pedro Nunes]], Portuguese mathematician (d. [[1578]])
** [[Francesco Spiera]], Italian Protestant jurist (d. [[1543]])
** [[Anthony Maria Zaccaria]], Cremonese founder of the Barnabite Order and saint (d. [[1539]])
* ''probable''
** [[Elizabeth Blount]], English courtier, mistress of King [[Henry VIII of England]] (d. [[1540]])
** [[Cuauhtémoc]], last Aztec ruler (Tlatoani) of Tenochtitlán and the last "Aztec Emperor" (d. [[1525]])
** [[Blaise de Lasseran-Massencôme, seigneur de Montluc]], marshal of France (approximate date; d. [[1577]])
** [[Hurrem Sultan]], Ruthenian-born [[Haseki sultan]] of the Ottoman Empire (d. [[1558]])
** [[Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland]], English courtier (d. [[1537]])