Famous Deaths
- Feb 12 Nicholas Throckmorton, English diplomat and politician (b. 1515)
- Feb 14 Benvenuto Cellini, Italian sculptor, goldsmith and author (Perseus), dies at 70
- Feb 14 Odet de Coligny, French aristocrat, ex-communicated Catholic Cardinal of Châtillon, Archbishop of Toulouse (1534-1550), Administrator of Beauvais (1535-63) who converted to Calvinism (1561), dies at 53
