page_title: 1552
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1552 / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: 日本語: フランシスコ・ザビエル像。17世紀初期に描かれた。神戸市立博物館所蔵。『中公バックス 日本の歴史 別巻2 図録 鎌倉から戦国』より。 English: A Japanese depiction of Francis Xavier, dated to the 17th century.
context_page_description: Year 1552 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.
context_section_description: January 3 – Henry of the Palatinate, bishop of Utrecht (b. 1487)
  January 10 – Johann Cochlaeus, German humanist and controversialist (b. 1479)
  January 22 – Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, English politician (b. 1509)
  February 6 – Henry V, Duke of Mecklenburg (b. 1479)
  February 20 – Anne Parr, Countess of Pembroke, English countess (b. 1515)
  February 26 – Heinrich Faber, German composer (b. 1500)
  March 29 – Guru Angad, Indian religious leader (b. 1504)
  April 19 – Olaus Petri, Swedish clergyman (b. 1493)
  April 18 – John Leland, English historian (b. 1502)
  April 21 – Petrus Apianus, German astronomer (b. 1495)
  May 26 – Sebastian Münster, German cartographer and cosmographer (b. 1488)
  June 10 – Alexander Barclay, British poet (b. 1476)
  July 9 – György Szondy, Hungarian soldier
  August 15 – Hermann of Wied, German Catholic archbishop (b. 1477)
  September 23 – Barbara of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach, Landgravine of Leuchtenberg (b. 1495)
  October 14 – Oswald Myconius, Swiss Protestant reformer (b. 1488)
  October 17 – Andreas Osiander, German Protestant theologian (b. 1498)
  November 10 – Günther XL, Count of Schwarzburg (b. 1499)
  December 3 – Francis Xavier, Spanish Jesuit missionary and saint (b. 1506)
  December 20 – Katharina von Bora, wife of Martin Luther (b. 1499)
caption: Saint Francis Xavier
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