page_title: 1543
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1543 / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: English: Oil painting of Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo. He was painted about 1500 times.
context_page_description: Year 1543 was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. It is one of the years sometimes referred to as an "Annus mirabilis" because of its significant publications in science, considered the start of the scientific revolution.
context_section_description: January 2 – Francesco Canova da Milano, Italian composer (b. 1497)
  January 3 – Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, Portuguese explorer (b. 1499)
  January 9 – Guillaume du Bellay, French diplomat and general (b. 1491)
  February 13 – Johann Eck, German Scholastic theologian (b. 1486)
  February 21 – Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi, Imam of Adal (in battle) (b. c. 1506)
  March 2 – John Neville, 3rd Baron Latimer, English politician (b. 1493)
  March 6 – Baccio D'Agnolo, Florentine woodcarver (b. 1460)
  April 23 – Susanna of Bavaria, German noble, House of Wittelsbach (b. 1502)
  May 24 – Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish mathematician and astronomer (b. 1473)
  June 27 – Agnolo Firenzuola, Italian poet (b. 1493)
  July 19 – Mary Boleyn, English courtier, mistress of Kings Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England (b. 1500)
  August 1 – Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, German noble (b. 1470)
  August 29 – Maria of Jülich-Berg, German duchess, Spouse of John III, Duke of Cleves (b. 1491)
  September 2 – Sultan Quli Qutb Mulk, founder of the Qutb Shahi dynasty of Golconda (b. 1470)
  September 20 – Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland (b. 1492)
  September 23 – Johanna von Hachberg-Sausenberg, Swiss countess regnant (b. 1485)
  November 29 – Hans Holbein the Younger, German artist, active in England
  December 27 – George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (b. 1484)
  December 29 – Maria Salviati, Italian noble (b. 1499)
  December 30 – Gian Matteo Giberti, Italian Catholic bishop (b. 1495)
  date unknown
  Polidoro da Caravaggio, Italian painter (b. 1492; murdered)
  Madeleine Lartessuti, French shipper and banker (b. 1478)
  Al-Mutawakkil III, last caliph of the Cairo-based Abbasid caliphate
  Sehzade Mehmed, Ottoman prince (b. 1521)
  probable
  Sebastian Franck, German freethinker (b. 1515)
  Margaret Lee, English courtier, sister of poet Thomas Wyatt (b. 1506)
caption: Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo
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