page_title: 1547
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1547 / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: Cropped version of the full portrait, showing the "jags" (i.e., cuts) in the body and sleeves of the doublet, through which "puffs" of the shirt have been pulled through.
context_page_description: Year 1547 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.
context_section_description: January 5
  Albrecht VII, Duke of Mecklenburg (b. 1486)
  Johann Heß, German theologian (b. 1490)
  January 16 – Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (b. 1477)
  January 18 – Pietro Bembo, Italian cardinal and scholar (b. 1470)
  January 19 – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, English nobleman, politician and poet, beheaded (b. c.1517)
  January 27 – Anne of Bohemia and Hungary, Queen consort of the Romans, Bohemia and Hungary (b. 1503)
  January 28 – King Henry VIII of England (b. 1491)
  February 25 – Vittoria Colonna, marchioness of Pescara (b. 1490)
  February 28 – Philippa of Guelders, Duchess of Lorraine (b. 1467)
  March 31 – King Francis I of France (b. 1494)
  April 11 – Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Prussia, Danish princess (b. 1504)
  May 22 – Daniel, Metropolitan of Moscow (b. c. 1492)
  c. May – Edward Hall, English chronicler and lawyer (b. c.1496)
  June 21 – Sebastiano del Piombo, Italian painter (b. 1485)
  July 20 – Beatus Rhenanus,  German humanist and religious reformer (b. 1485)
  August 7 – Saint Cajetan, Italian priest and saint (b. 1480)
  August 17 – Katharina von Zimmern, Swiss sovereign abbess (b. 1478)
  September 10 – Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1503)
  September 17 – Frederick II of Legnica, Duke of Legnica from 1488 (until 1495 and 1505 with his brothers) (b. 1480)
  October 18 – Jacopo Sadoleto, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1477)
  December 2 – Hernán Cortés, Spanish conquistador of Mexico (b. 1485)
  December 28 – Konrad Peutinger, German humanist and antiquarian (b. 1465)
  date unknown
  Jörg Breu the Younger, German painter (b. 1510)
  Meera (Mirabai), Rajput princess (b. 1498)
  Photisarath, King of Laos (b. 1501)
caption: King Henry VIII of England
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