page_title: 1555
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1555 / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: English: Pope Marcellus II
context_page_description: Year 1555 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.
context_section_description: January 14 – Jacques Dubois, French anatomist (b. 1478)
  February 4 – John Rogers, English clergyman (burned at the stake) (b. c. 1505)
  February 8 – Laurence Saunders, English clergyman (burned at the stake) (b. 1519)
  February 9
  Christian Egenolff, German printer (b. 1502)
  John Hooper, English churchman (burned at the stake) (b. c. 1497)
  Rowland Taylor, English Protestant martyr (burned at the stake) (b. 1510)
  February 17 – Giuliano Bugiardini, Italian painter (b. 1475)
  March 14 – John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford (b. 1485)
  March 23 – Pope Julius III (b. 1487)
  March 27 – Al-Mutawakkil Yahya Sharaf ad-Din, Imam of the Zaidi state in Yemen (b. 1473)
  April 12 – Queen Joanna of Castile (b. 1479)
  April 18 – Polydore Vergil, English historian (b. 1470)
  May 1 – Pope Marcellus II (b. 1501)
  May 21 – George III, Landgrave of Leuchtenberg (b. 1502)
  May 25
  Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (b. 1508)
  Henry II of Navarre (b. 1503)
  June 10 – Elizabeth of Denmark, Electress of Brandenburg (1502–1535) (b. 1485)
  September 8 – Thomas of Villanova, Spanish Roman Catholic bishop and saint (b. 1488)
  October 5 – Edward Wotton, English zoologist (b. 1492)
  October 9 – Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (b. 1493)
  October 16
  Hugh Latimer, English clergyman (burned at the stake) (b. c. 1487)
  Nicholas Ridley, English clergyman (burned at the stake)
  Sue Harukata, Japanese retainer under the Ouchi clan (b. 1521)
  October 26 – Olympia Fulvia Morata, Italian classical scholar (b. 1526)
  November 4 – Agnes of Hesse, German nobleman, by marriage, Princess of Saxony (b. 1527)
  November 12
  Stephen Gardiner, English bishop and Lord Chancellor (b. 1493)
  Yang Jisheng, Ming Chinese statesman (beheaded) (b. 1516)
  Zhang Jing, Ming Chinese general (beheaded)
  November 21 – Georgius Agricola, German scientist (b. 1490)
  December – Stanisław Kostka, Polish noble (b. 1487)
  December 9 – Elisabeth of Culemborg, German noble (b. 1475)
caption: Pope Marcellus II
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