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• Charles Estienne
  Charles Estienne
  Charles Estienne was an early exponent of the science of anatomy in France. Charles was a younger brother of Robert Estienne, the famous printer, and son to Henri, who Latinized the family name as Stephanus. He married Geneviève de Berly....
  
   - Praedium Rusticum
• Lazarillo de Tormes
  Lazarillo de Tormes
  The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and of His Fortunes and Adversities is a Spanish novella, published anonymously because of its heretical content...
  
  (anonymous)
• Adrianus Turnebus
  Adrianus Turnebus
  Adrianus Turnebus was a French classical scholar.-Life:Turnebus was born at Les Andelys in Normandy. At the age of twelve he was sent to Paris to study, and attracted great notice by his remarkable abilities...
  
  's edition of Corpus Hermeticum.

Births

• November 11 - Luis de la Puente, theologian (d. 1624)
• November 30 - Sir Philip Sidney
  Philip Sidney
  Sir Philip Sidney was an English poet, courtier and soldier, and is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan Age...
  
  , soldier and poet (d. 1586)
• date unknown - Anrakuan Sakuden
  Anrakuan Sakuden
  was an Edo period Japanese priest of the Jōdo sect of Buddhism; devotee of the tea ceremony; connoisseur of camellias; and dilettante poet. The name Anrakuan takes from the name of the tea house that he built and lived at after he retired at the age of seventy. He is famous as the author of the...
  
  , Japanese poet (d. 1642)

Deaths

• January 16 - Christiern Pedersen
  Christiern Pedersen
  Christiern Pedersen was a canon, humanist scholar, writer, printer and publisher.-Education:Christiern Pedersen was born in Helsingør, Denmark. He was schooled in Roskilde and studied from 1496 at the University of Greifswald...
  
  , humanist scholar, writer, printer and publisher (b. c.1480)
• June 24 - Feliciano de Silva
  Feliciano de Silva
  Feliciano de Silva was a Spanish writer.de Silva was born in Ciudad Rodrigo to a powerful family, Silva wrote “sequels” to Celestina and Amadis de Gaula. Silva was a prolific writer. His first chivalresque work, Lisurate de Grecia , was published in 1514. It is a relatively short work...
  
  , chivalresque writer (b. c. 1491)
• September 8 - Johann Wild
  Johann Wild
  Johann Wild was a German Franciscan scriptural commentator and preacher.-Life:Wild was born in Swabia. At an early age he joined the Franciscan Order. He was educated at Cologne. At a chapter held in the Convent at Tübingen in 1528, he was appointed professor of rhetoric and belles-lettres,...
  
  , Biblical commentator (b. 1497)