1515

Events of 1515

September 5 - Selim captures the Persian capital of Tabriz without encountering any resistance, but is unable to hold it.

September 13 - September 14 - Battle of Marignano: The army of Francis I of France defeats the Swiss, thanks to the timely arrival of a Venetian army. Francis restores French control of Milan.
November 15 - Thomas Cardinal Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal.
December 24 - Thomas Wolsey is named the English Lord Chancellor.

February 18 - Valerius Cordus, German physician (d. 1544)
February 24 - Johann Weyer, German physician (d. 1588)
March 28 - Saint Teresa of Ávila, Spanish Carmelite nun and poet (d. 1582)
July 10 - Francisco de Toledo, Count of Oropesa (d. 1584)
July 21 - Philip Neri, Italian churchman (d. 1595)
September 8 - Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar (d. 1585)
September 22 - Anne of Cleves, fourth queen of Henry VIII of England (d. 1557)
October 4 - Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (d. 1586)
October 7 - Infante Duarte, Duke of Guimarães, 6th son of King Manuel I of Portugal and his wife Maria of Aragon (d. 1540)
October 8 - Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (d. 1578)
November 22 - Mary of Guise, queen of James V of Scotland and regent of Scotland (d. 1560)
date unknown

January 1 - King Louis XII of France (b. 1462)
January 15 - Diebold Schilling the Younger, Swiss chronicler
February 6 - Aldus Manutius, Venetian printer (b. c. 1449)
April 15 - Mikołaj Kamieniecki, Polish nobleman (szlachcic) and the first Great Hetman of the Crown (b. 1460)
September 9 - Joseph Volotsky, prominent caesaropapist ideologist of the Russian Orthodox Church, who led the party defending monastic landownership
October - Bartolomeo d'Alviano, Venetian general (b. 1455)
November 5 - Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter (b. 1474)
December 2 - Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general and statesman (b. 1453)
December 16 - Afonso de Albuquerque, Portuguese naval general (b. 1453)
date unknown

Khan Meñli I Giray of the Crimean Khanate (b. 1445)
Pietro Lombardo, Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect (b. in Carona (Ticino)1435)
Nezahualpilli, Aztec philosopher (b. 1464)
Alonso de Ojeda, Spanish conquistador (b. 1466)
Andreas Stoberl, Austrian astronomer, mathematician and theologian (b. 1465)