Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1539
Birthdays March 25 - Christopher Clavius, German mathematician (d. 1612) April 7 - Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter (d. 1584) November 1 - Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (d. 1596) December 5 - Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian (d. 1604)
Deaths February 13 - Isabella d'Este, Marquise of Mantua (b. 1474) March 5 - Nuno da Cunha, Portuguese governor in India (b. 1487) April 17 - George, Duke of Saxony (b. 1471) May 1 - Isabella of Portugal, queen of Spain and empress of Germany (b. 1503) May 7 - Guru Nanak Dev, Founder of Sikhism (b. 1469) May 7 - Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (b. 1466) July 5 - St. Anthony Maria Zaccaria, Italian saint (b. 1502) September 8 - John Stokesley, English churchman September 22 - Guru Nanak Dev, founder of Sikhism (b. 1469) December 20 - Johannes Lupi, Flemish composer
Events January 12 - Treaty of Toledo signed by King Francis I of France and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. January 14 - Spain annexes Cuba. April 27 - Re-founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (nowadays Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar. May 30 - In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold. June 3 - DeSoto claims Florida for Spain. June 10 - Council of Trent: Paul III sends out letters to his bishops, delaying the Council due to war and the difficulty bishops had traveling to Venice.
