page_title: 1560
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1560 / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: François II, roi de France. English: Francis II of France.
context_page_description: Year 1560 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
context_section_description: January 1 – Joachim du Bellay, French poet (b. 1522)
  January 8 – Jan Łaski, Polish Protestant evangelical reformer (b. 1499)
  January 22 – Wang Zhi, Chinese pirate
  February 7 – Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Florentine sculptor (b. 1493)
  February 14 – Philip I, Duke of Pomerania-Wolgast (b. 1515)
  February 16 – Jean du Bellay, French cardinal and diplomat (b. 1493)
  March 5 – Pedro Pacheco de Villena, Spanish Catholic cardinal (b. 1488)
  April 19 – Philip Melanchthon, German humanist and reformer (b. 1497)
  June 11 – Mary of Guise, queen of James V of Scotland and regent (b. 1515)
  June 12
  Imagawa Yoshimoto, Japanese daimyō (b. 1519)
  Ii Naomori, Japanese warrior (b. 1506)
  August 4 – Maeda Toshimasa, Japanese samurai
  August 7 – Anastasia Romanovna, Tsarina of Russia, married to Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible (b. 1530)
  September 8 – Amy Robsart, English noblewoman (b. 1532)
  September 14 – Anton Fugger, German merchant (b. 1493)
  September 29 – King Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1496)
  September 30 – Melchor Cano, Spanish theologian (b. 1525)
  November 7 – Petrus Lotichius Secundus, German Neo-Latin poet (b. 1528)
  November 25 – Andrea Doria, Italian naval commander (b. 1466)
  December 2 – Georg Sabinus, German writer (b. 1508)
  December 5 – King Francis II of France (b. 1544)
  December 7 – Ernest of Bavaria, pledge lord of the County of Glatz (b. 1500)
  Date unknown – Benvenida Abrabanel, philanthropist and businesswoman.
caption: King Francis II of France
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