1548

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1510s 1520s 1530s – 1540s – 1550s 1560s 1570s
Years:	1545 1546 1547 – 1548 – 1549 1550 1551

Births

Giordano Bruno (d. 17 February 1600), Italian philosopher, priest, mathematician, and astronomer
8 July – Kim Jang-saeng (d. 3 August 1631), Korean scholar, politician, and educator

January 23 – Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer (b. 1490)
February 26 – Lorenzino de' Medici, writer and assassin (b. 1514)
March 23 – Itagaki Nobukata, Japanese retainer
March 24 – Gissur Einarsson, first Lutheran bishop in Iceland
April 1 – King Sigismund I the Old of Poland (b. 1467)
May 30 – Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, Mexican Catholic saint (b. 1474)
June 3 – Juan de Zumárraga, Spanish Catholic bishop of Mexico (b. 1468)
June 6 – João de Castro, Portuguese explorer (b. 1500)
June 14 – Carpentras, French composer (b. c. 1470)
September 8 – Catherine Parr, Sixth and last Queen of Henry VIII of England (b. c. 1512)
October 27 – Johannes Dantiscus, Polish poet and Bishop of Warmia (b. 1485)
December 27 – Francesco Spiera, Italian Protestant jurist (b. 1502)