1511

Births 
 February 8 – Giorgio Vasari (d. 1574), Italian painter, architect and writer

Deaths
January 9 – Demetrios Chalkokondyles, Greek classical scholar (b. 1424)
February 11 – Henry, Duke of Cornwall, eldest son of Henry VIII of England
June 6 – Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah, Islamic scholar, author of the Oran fatwa
July 2 – Şahkulu, leader of the Şahkulu Rebellion
August 2 – Andrew Barton, Scottish naval leader (b. c. 1466)
September 6 – Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (b. 1481)
October 18 – Philippe de Commines, French-speaking Fleming in the courts of Burgundy and France (b. 1447)
 date unknown
Nicolás de Ovando (born 1460), Spanish soldier, governor of Hispaniola
 Diego de Nicuesa, Spanish conquistador and explorer
 Johannes Tinctoris, Flemish composer and music theorist (b. c. 1435)
 Matthias Ringmann, German cartographer and humanist poet (b. 1482)
 Yusuf Adil Shah, founding leader of the Adil Shahi dynasty
 probable – Antoine de Févin, French composer (b. c. 1470)