Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1546
Birthdays
- January 27 - Joachim Friedrich, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1608)
- May 5 - Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter
- June 24 - Robert Parsons, English Jesuit priest (d. 1610)
- July 4 - Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1595)
- December 14 - Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer and alchemist (d. 1601)
- December 22 - Kuroda Yoshitaka, Japanese Daimyo (d. 1604)
Deaths
- January 21 - Azai Sukemasa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1491)
- February 18 - Martin Luther, German religious reformer (b. 1483)
- March 1 - George Wishart, Scottish religious reformer (martyred) (b 1513)
- March 26 - Thomas Elyot, English diplomat
- May 29 - David Beaton, Scottish Catholic cardinal
- July 4 - Hayreddin Barbarossa, Admiral of the Ottoman Navy (b. 1478)
- July 16 - Anne Askew, English Protestant (burned at the stake) (b. 1521)
- August 1 - Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (b. 1506)
- August 3 - Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (b. 1484)
- August 3 - Ιtienne Dolet, French scholar and printer (b. 1509)
- November 1 - Giulio Romano, Italian painter
Events
- January 23 - Having published nothing for eleven years, Francois Rabelais publishes the Tiers Livre, his sequel to Gargantua and Pantagruel.
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