page_title: 1571
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1571 / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Portrait des Schweizer Malers Hans Asper.
context_page_description: Year 1571 was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
context_section_description: January 3 – Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1505)
  January 9 – Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, French naval officer (b. 1510)
  January 13 – John, Margrave of Brandenburg-Küstrin (b. 1513)
  January 19 – Paris Bordone, Venetian painter (b. 1495)
  February 12 – Nicholas Throckmorton, English diplomat and politician (b. 1515)
  February 13 – Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist (b. 1500)
  March 6 – Tsukahara Bokuden, Japanese swordsman (b. 1489)
  March 14 – John Sigismund Zápolya, King of Hungary (b. 1540)
  March 21
  Odet de Coligny, French cardinal and Protestant (b. 1517)
  Hans Asper, Swiss painter (b. 1499)
  April 6 – John Hamilton, Scottish prelate and politician (b. 1511)
  May 4 – Pierre Viret, Swiss theologian (b. 1511)
  May 29 – Joachim Mörlin, German Lutheran bishop (b. 1514)
  June 1 – John Story, English Catholic (martyred) (b. 1504)
  June 3 – Tarik Sulayman, Filipino chieftain
  June 7 – Francesco Corteccia, Italian composer (b. 1502)
  July 6 – Mōri Motonari, Japanese warlord (b. 1497)
  July 15 – Shimazu Takahisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1514)
  July 17 – Georg Fabricius, German poet (b. 1516)
  August 17 – Marco Antonio Bragadin, Venetian lawyer and military officer (b. 1523)
  September 4 – Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox (b. 1516)
  September 23 – John Jewel, English Anglican bishop (b. 1522)
  October 7
  Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg, Danish queen, consort of Christian III of Denmark (b. 1511)
  Müezzinzade Ali Pasha, Ottoman statesmen and naval officer
  November 24 – Jan Blahoslav, Czech writer (b. 1523)
  December 14 – Lorenzo Strozzi, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1513)
  date unknown
  Titu Cusi, Incan ruler (b. 1529)
  Anna Vigfúsdóttir á Stóru-Borg, Icelandic landowner
  Setthathirath, Laotian king of Lan Na and Lan Xang (b. 1534)
  Jan Tarło, Polish noble
caption: Hans Asper
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