Births
- Hernando de Alarcón, Spanish navigator (died 1541)
- Ruy López de Villalobos, Spanish explorer (died 1546)
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- Pierre Desceliers, French cartographer (died 1558)
- Ambrosius Ehinger, Bavarian explorer of South America (k. 1533)
- Bartolomeo Maranta, Italian physician and botanist (died 1571)
- Paarangot Jyeshtadevan Namboodiri, Keralan mathematician and astronomer (died 1610)
- Walther H. Ryff, German science writer (died 1548)
- Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia, Italian mathematician (died 1557)
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