1525

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1490s  1500s  1510s  – 1520s –  1530s  1540s  1550s
Years:	1522 1523 1524 – 1525 – 1526 1527 1528

Deaths

• February 24 – Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet, French soldier
• February 26 – Cuauhtémoc, last Aztec ruler (tortured to death)
• May 5 – Frederick III, Elector of Saxony (born 1463)
• May 27 – Thomas Muentzer, German pastor and rebel leader (born 1489)
• July 22 – Richard Wingfield, English diplomat
• December 30 – Jakob Fugger, German banker (born 1459)
• Jean Lemaire de Belges, Walloon poet and historian (born 1473)
• Huayna Capac, emperor of the Inca (born 1493)
• Franciabigio, Florentine painter (born 1482)
• Jacques de la Palice, French nobleman and military officer
• Richard de la Pole, last Yorkist claimant to the English throne (killed in battle)
• Nicholas Storch, weaver and reformer
• Leonor of Viseu, queen of João II of Portugal