- May 2 Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist (b. 1500)
John Calvin
May 27 John Calvin [Jehan Cauvin], Protestant religious reformer and theologian (Calvinism), dies at 54 (b. 1509)

John Calvin
May 27 John Calvin [Jehan Cauvin], Protestant religious reformer and theologian (Calvinism), dies at 54 (b. 1509)