1511

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1480s  1490s  1500s  – 1510s –  1520s  1530s  1540s
Years:	1508 1509 1510 – 1511 – 1512 1513 1514

Births

• February 8 – Giorgio Vasari (d. 1574), Italian painter, architect and writer

Deaths

• January 9 – Demetrios Chalkokondyles, Greek classical scholar (b. 1424)
• February 11 – Henry, Duke of Cornwall, eldest son of Henry VIII of England
• June 6 – Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah, Islamic scholar, author of the Oran fatwa
• July 2 – Şahkulu, leader of the Şahkulu Rebellion
• August 2 – Andrew Barton, Scottish naval leader (b. c. 1466)
• September 6 – Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (b. 1481)
• October 18 – Philippe de Commines, French-speaking Fleming in the courts of Burgundy and France (b. 1447)
• date unknown
  • Nicolás de Ovando (born 1460), Spanish soldier, governor of Hispaniola
  • Diego de Nicuesa, Spanish conquistador and explorer
  • Johannes Tinctoris, Flemish composer and music theorist (b. c. 1435)
  • Matthias Ringmann, German cartographer and humanist poet (b. 1482)
  • Yusuf Adil Shah, founding leader of the Adil Shahi dynasty
• probable – Antoine de Févin, French composer (b. c. 1470)