Editing 1566 (section)

== Deaths ==
[[File:Nostradamus by Cesar.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Nostradamus]]]]
[[File:Fray Bartolomé de las Casas.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Bartolomé de las Casas]]]]
[[File:EmperorSuleiman.jpg|thumb|110px|Sultan [[Suleiman the Magnificent]]]]
* [[January 6]] &ndash; [[Francesco Gonzaga (1538-1566)|Francesco Gonzaga]], Spanish Catholic cardinal (b. [[1538]])<ref>{{cite web |title=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of February 26, 1561 |url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1561.htm#Gonzaga |website=cardinals.fiu.edu |access-date=3 December 2023}}</ref>
* [[January 7]] &ndash; [[Louis de Blois]], Flemish mystical writer (b. [[1506]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Blois |first1=Georges de |title=Louis de Blois, un bénédictin au XVIème siècle |date=1875 |publisher=Palmé |page=2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WwmGQpzHmVwC&dq=Louis+de+Blois+%227+janvier+1566%22&pg=PA29 |access-date=3 December 2023 |language=fr}}</ref>
* [[February 3]] &ndash; [[George Cassander]], Flemish theologian (b. [[1513]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Luïscius |first1=A. G. |title=Het algemeen historisch, geographisch en genealogisch woordenboek, vervattende de geheele wereldlyke geschiedenis, ... van deze laatsten gevoegt een naamlyst van derzelver uitgegevene werken |date=1726 |publisher=Husson |page=231 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D3g58EJE3i0C&dq=George+Cassander+%223+februari+1566%22&pg=PA231 |access-date=3 December 2023 |language=nl}}</ref>
* [[February 24]] &ndash; [[Mimura Iechika]], Japanese warlord (b. [[1517]])
* [[March 9]] &ndash; [[David Rizzio]], Italian secretary of [[Mary, Queen of Scots]] (b. [[1533]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Paul James|author2=Peter Russell|title=At Her Majesty's Service|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LH3C4F7aGg0C|year=1986|publisher=J. Curley & Associates|isbn=978-1-55504-287-5|page=76}}</ref>
* [[March 23]] &ndash; [[Wolfgang, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen]], German prince (b. [[1492]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Allgemeine deutsche Biographie |date=1898 |publisher=Duncker & Humblot |page=68 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o_Y4EZbh3ZAC&dq=Wolfgang,+F%C3%BCrst+von+Anhalt-K%C3%B6then+%2223+marz+1566%22&pg=PA68 |access-date=3 December 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[March 26]] &ndash; [[Antonio de Cabezón]], Spanish composer and organist (b. [[1510]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Cabezón, Antonio de |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/display/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-90000380595 |website=Grove Music Online |access-date=3 December 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 28]] &ndash; [[Sigismund von Herberstein]], Austrian diplomat (b. [[1486]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=WISSGRILL |first1=Franz Carl |title=Schauplatz des landsässigen Nieder-Oesterreichischen Adels von Herren- und Ritterstande, von dem XI Jahrhundert an, bis auf jetzige Zeiten |date=1800 |publisher=Christian Fridich Wapplets |page=253 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LyvgHw4hAcsC&q=%2228%20marz%201566%22 |access-date=3 December 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[April 25]] &ndash; [[Diane de Poitiers]], mistress of King [[Henry II of France]] (b. [[1499]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Jehanne d'Orliac|title=The Moon Mistress: Diane de Poitiers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6YgJAQAAIAAJ|year=1931|publisher=Harrap|page=310}}</ref>
* [[April 25]] &ndash; [[Louise Labé]], French poet (b. c. [[1524]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bever |first1=Adolphe van |title=Les poètes du terroir du XVe siècle au XXe siècle: textes choisis, accompagnés de notices |date=1923 |publisher=Delagrave |page=266 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SMY-AAAAYAAJ&dq=Louise+Lab%C3%A9+%2225+avril+1566%22&pg=PA266 |access-date=3 December 2023 |language=fr}}</ref>
* [[May 10]] &ndash; [[Leonhart Fuchs]], German physician and a botanist (b. [[1501]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Brinkhus |first1=Gerd |last2=Pachnicke |first2=Claudine |title=Leonhart Fuchs (1501-1566): Mediziner und Botaniker |date=2001 |publisher=Kulturamt |isbn=978-3-910090-43-9 |page=23 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hPAfAQAAIAAJ&q=%2210%20mai%201566%22 |access-date=3 December 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[July 2]] &ndash; [[Nostradamus]], French astrologer (b. [[1503]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Reading |first1=Mario |title=Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies for the Future |date=2006 |publisher=Watkins Media Limited |isbn=978-1-84293-180-6 |page=16 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WgXaCwAAQBAJ&q=%20%222%20july%201566%22 |access-date=3 December 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[July 13]] &ndash; [[Thomas Hoby]], English diplomat and translator (b. [[1530]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wagner |first1=John A. |last2=Ph.D |first2=Susan Walters Schmid |title=Encyclopedia of Tudor England |date=9 December 2011 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=978-1-59884-299-9 |page=600 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7uPNEAAAQBAJ&dq=Thomas+Hoby+%2213+july+1566%22&pg=PA600 |access-date=3 December 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[July 18]] &ndash; [[Bartolomé de las Casas]], Spanish priest (b. [[1484]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fernández |first1=Isacio Pérez |title=Fray Bartolomé de las Casas: brevísima relación de su vida, diseño de su personalidad, síntesis de su doctrina |date=1984 |publisher=Editorial San Esteban |isbn=978-84-7188-151-9 |page=21 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qrOHqL_uEtwC&dq=Bartolom%C3%A9+de+las+Casas+%2218+de+julio+de+1566%22&pg=PA50 |access-date=3 December 2023 |language=es}}</ref>
* [[July 30]] &ndash; [[Guillaume Rondelet]], French doctor (b. [[1507]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Damkaer |first1=David M. |title=The Copepodologist's Cabinet: A Biographical and Bibliographical History |date=2002 |publisher=American Philosophical Society |isbn=978-0-87169-240-5 |page=15 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TgUNAAAAIAAJ&dq=Guillaume+Rondelet+%2230+july+1566%22&pg=PA15 |access-date=3 December 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[August 19]] &ndash; [[Elisabeth of Brunswick-Calenberg]], Countess of Henneberg (b. [[1526]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Braunschweigisches Magazin |date=1899 |publisher=J. Zwissler. |page=201 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RXsKAAAAIAAJ&dq=Elisabeth+von+Braunschweig+%2219+august+1566%22&pg=RA2-PA201 |access-date=3 December 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[September 2]] &ndash; [[Taddeo Zuccari]], Italian painter (b. [[1529]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Ricerche di storia dell'arte |date=1986 |publisher=Bulzoni |page=44 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D3FMAAAAYAAJ&q=Taddeo+Zuccari+%222+settembre+1566%22 |access-date=3 December 2023 |language=it}}</ref>
* [[September 6]] &ndash; [[Suleiman the Magnificent]], [[Ottoman Sultan]] since [[1520]] (b. [[1494]])<ref name="sul" />
* [[September 17]] &ndash; [[Íñigo López de Mendoza, 4th Duke of the Infantado]] (b. [[1493]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Falguera |first1=Cristina de la Cruz de Arteaga y |title=La Casa del Infantado: cabeza de los Mendoza |date=1940 |publisher=Duque del Infantado |page=420 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SgRJIZG6-SwC&q=%20%2217%20de%20septiembre%20de%201566%22 |access-date=3 December 2023 |language=es}}</ref>
* [[September 22]] &ndash; [[Johannes Agricola]], German Protestant reformer (b. [[1494]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dietsch |first1=Julius Erdmann Christoph |title=Die christlichen Weihestätten in und bei der Stadt Hof: geschichtliche Darstellung der allda befindlichen Kirchen, Kapellen und Friedhöfe |date=1856 |publisher=Riegel & Wießner |page=45 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mMoOyjlvJcwC&dq=Johannes+Agricola+%2222+september+1566%22&pg=PA45 |access-date=3 December 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[September 27]] &ndash; [[Marco Girolamo Vida]], Italian poet (b. [[1490]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tadisi |first1=Jacopo Antonio |title=Vita di monsignor Marco Girolamo Vida nobile cremonese, vescovo d'Alba, descritta da Jacopo Antonio Tadisi .. |date=1788 |publisher=Vincenzo Antoine |page=39 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2STOTi4Q-S0C&dq=Marco+Girolamo+Vida+%2227+settembre+1566%22&pg=PA39 |access-date=3 December 2023 |language=it}}</ref>
* [[October 13]] &ndash; [[Zilia Dandolo]], Venetian dogaressa<ref>{{cite book |last1=Staley |first1=Edgcumbe |title=The dogaressas of Venice: The wives of the doges |date=1910 |publisher=T. W. Laurie |location=London |page=264 |url=https://archive.org/details/dogaressasofveni00stal/page/264/mode/2up?q=1566 |access-date=3 December 2023}}</ref>
* [[October 28]] &ndash; [[Johann Funck]], German theologian (b. [[1518]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dingel |first1=Irene |title=Der Osiandrische Streit (1550–1570) |date=17 April 2023 |publisher=Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht |isbn=978-3-647-50014-0 |page=59 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=spTkEAAAQBAJ&dq=Johann+Funck+%2228+oktober+1566%22&pg=PA59 |access-date=3 December 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[October 31]] &ndash; [[Richard Edwardes]], English poet (b. [[1523]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Evans |first1=Robert |last2=Humphreys |first2=Maggie |title=Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland |date=1 January 1997 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-4411-3796-8 |page=101 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xZCvAwAAQBAJ&dq=Richard+Edwardes+%2231+october+1566%22&pg=PA101 |access-date=3 December 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[November 2]] &ndash; [[Thomas White (died 1566)|Thomas White]], English politician (b. [[1507]])
* [[November 17]] &ndash; [[Annibale Caro]], Italian poet and Knight of Malta (b. [[1507]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Monti |first1=Achille |title=Scritti in prosa ed in versi |date=1882 |publisher=I. Galeati |page=120 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YQYOAAAAYAAJ&dq=Annibale+Caro+%2217+novembre+1566%22&pg=PA120 |access-date=3 December 2023 |language=it}}</ref>
* [[November 27]] &ndash; [[Froben Christoph of Zimmern]], author of the ''Zimmern Chronicle'' (b. [[1519]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jenny |first1=Beat Rudolf |title=Graf Froben Christoph von Zimmern, 1519-1566: Geschichtschreiber, Erzähler, Dynast |date=1959 |publisher=Konstanz |page=1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zG131FTl49IC&q=%20%2227%20november%201566%22 |access-date=3 December 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[December 1]] &ndash; [[Francisco Mendoza de Bobadilla]], Spanish Catholic cardinal (b. [[1508]])<ref>{{cite web |title=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of December 19, 1544 |url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1544.htm#Mendoza |website=cardinals.fiu.edu |access-date=3 December 2023}}</ref>
* [[December 14]] &ndash; [[René, Marquis of Elbeuf]] (b. [[1536]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Barthélemy |first1=L[ouis] |title=Histoire d'Aubagne, chef-lieu de Baronnie: depuis son origine jusq'en 1789 |date=1889 |publisher=Barlatier et Barthelet |page=47 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oy8bAAAAYAAJ&dq=Ren%C3%A9+II+de+Lorraine+%2214+aout+1566%22&pg=PA47 |access-date=3 December 2023 |language=fr}}</ref>
* [[December 26]] &ndash; [[Kimotsuki Kanetsugu]], Japanese samurai (b. [[1511]])
* [[December 28]] &ndash; [[Margaret Paleologa]], Sovereign Marchioness of Montferrat (1531–1540) (b. [[1510]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Archivio storico italiano |date=1892 |publisher=Leo S. Olschki |page=265 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gGFIAAAAYAAJ&dq=Margherita+Paleologa+%2228+dicembre+1566%22&pg=PA265 |access-date=3 December 2023 |language=it}}</ref>
* ''date unknown''
** [[Charles Dumoulin]], French jurist (b. [[1500]])<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Izbicki |first1=Thomas |title=Charles Dumoulin's Annotations in a Lyon Edition of the Decretum |journal=Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law |date=2022 |volume=39 |issue=1 |pages=179–187 |doi=10.1353/bmc.2022.0006 |s2cid=257785323 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/16/article/885374/summary |issn=2372-2509|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
** [[Calvagh O'Donnell]], Irish chieftain<ref>{{cite ODNB |title=O'Donnell, Calvagh, lord of Tyrconnell|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-20550|year=2004 |access-date=3 December 2023 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/20550}}</ref>
* ''probable'' &ndash; [[Jacob Acontius]], Swiss jurist, theologian, philosopher and engineer (b. [[1492]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=O'Malley |first1=Charles Donald |title=Jacopo Aconcio |date=1955 |publisher=Ed. di Storia e Letteratura |page=51 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-SvF1ye4QwYC&q=1566 |access-date=3 December 2023 |language=it}}</ref>