* 1555 – After 18 months of siege, Siena surrenders to the Florentine-Imperial army.

* 1555 – Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter ( d. 1619 )

On 9 November 1555 Cardinal Ippolito II d ' Este ( famed as the builder of the Villa d ' Este at Tivoli ), wrote to Guglielmo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua ( 1538 – 1587 ), that he has heard that His Grace is interested in his cantoretti, and offering to send him two, so that he could choose one for his own service.

* 1508 – Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer ( d. 1555 )

* 1494 – Oronce Finé, French mathematician ( d. 1555 )

* 1555 – Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake.

* 1555 – John Hooper, Bishop of Gloucester & Worcester ( burned at the stake ) ( b. ca.

* 1555 – Rowland Taylor, English pastor ( executed ) ( b. 1510 )

Georgius Agricola ( 24 March 1494 – 21 November 1555 ) was a German scholar and scientist.

During the next decade, Palestrina held positions similar to his Julian Chapel appointment at other chapels and churches in Rome, notably St John Lateran, ( 1555 – 1560 – a post previously held by Lassus ) and Sta Maria Maggiore ( 1561 – 1566 ).

Nasir ud-din Muhammad Humayun (; full title: Al-Sultan al -' Azam wal Khaqan al-Mukarram, Jam-i-Sultanat-i-haqiqi wa Majazi, Sayyid al-Salatin, Abu ' l Muzaffar Nasir ud-din Muhammad Humayun Padshah Ghazi, Zillu ' llah ; OS 7 March 1508 – OS 17 January 1556 ) was the second Mughal Emperor who ruled present day Afghanistan, Pakistan, and parts of northern India from 1530 – 1540 and again from 1555 – 1556.

* 1555 – The Ottoman Admiral Turgut Reis sacks the Italian city of Paola.

* 1555 – Ava Kingdom falls to Toungoo Dynasty of Burma.

* 1555 – The College of Arms was reincorporated by Royal charter signed by Queen Mary I of England and King Philip II of Spain.

# George Albert ( 1555 – 1557 )

Lancelot Andrewes ( 1555 – 25 September 1626 ) was an English bishop and scholar, who held high positions in the Church of England during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I.

* 1501 – Pope Marcellus II ( d. 1555 )

* 1494 – Georg Agricola, German scientist ( d. 1555 )

* 1555 – François, Duke of Anjou ( d. 1584 )

* 1555 – William Hunter, Protestant martyr

** Edward Wotton, English physician and zoologist ( d. 1555 )

* November 1 – Edward Kelley, English spirit medium ( b. 1555 )

* 1555 Edward Fisher

Hugh Latimer ( – 16 October 1555 ) was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge and Bishop of Worcester before the Reformation, and later Church of England chaplain to King Edward VI.

Sir Edward Kelley or Kelly, also known as Edward Talbot ( August 1, 1555 – November 1, 1597 ), was an ambiguous figure in English Renaissance occultism and self-declared spirit medium who worked with John Dee in his magical investigations.

* Louise Schleiner, ‘ Kelley, Sir Edward ( 1555 – 1597 / 8 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 4 March 2012

* Edward Stourton, 10th Baron Stourton ( c. 1555 – 1633 )

Sir Edward Phelips ( c. 1555 / 60 – 1614 ), builder of Montacute House

After Northumberland's execution, Dudley Castle was forfeited to the crown, and in 1555 was restored to Lord Quondam's eldest son, Edward Sutton, 4th Baron Dudley.

Edward Wotton ( 1492 – 5 October 1555 ) was an English physician, born in Oxford, credited with starting the modern study of zoology, by separating out much of the fanciful and folkloric additions that had been added over time to the body of zoological knowledge.

They were still regarded with some suspicion and in April 1555 the Spanish ambassador, Simon Renard wrote of a possible match between Frances and Edward Courtenay, a Plantagenet descendant.

* Edward Kelley or Kelly ( 1555 – 1597 ), English medium and alchemist

* 1555 – The English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism.

* 1555 – Stephen Gardiner, English statesman ( b. 1497 )

* 1510 – Rowland Taylor, English clergyman ( d. 1555 )

In February 1555 an envoy was dispatched from the English parliament to Julius to inform him of the country's formal submission, but the pope died before the envoy reached Rome.

* September 25 – Lancelot Andrewes, English scholar ( b. 1555 )

* May 3 – Henry Garnet, English Jesuit ( executed ) ( b. 1555 )

* A Narrative of the Proceedings and Troubles of the English Congregation at Frankfurt on the Maine ( 1554 – 1555 )

** Rowland Taylor, English Protestant martyr ( d. 1555 )

** John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford, English royal minister ( d. 1555 )

" Buggery " first appears in English in 1330, though " bugger " in a sexual sense is not recorded until 1555.

John Rogers ( c. 1500 – 4 February 1555 ) was a clergyman, Bible translator and commentator, and the first English Protestant martyr under Mary I of England.

" Buggery " first appears in English in 1330, though " bugger " in a sexual sense is not recorded until 1555.

** Thomas Watson, English lyric poet ( born 1555 )

The English usage owes its origins to Conrad Gesner who used the Italian name in the third volume of his Historiae Animalium ( History of Animals ) of 1555.

* Nicholas Ridley ( martyr ) ( died 1555 ), English clergyman

John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford, KG, PC, JP ( c. 1485 – 14 March 1554 / 1555 ) was an English royal minister in the Tudor era.

* Lancelot Andrewes ( 1555 – 1626 ), English clergyman and scholar

1495-1500 – 9 February 1555 ) was an English churchman, Anglican Bishop of Gloucester and Worcester.

* William Temple ( logician ) ( 1555 – 1627 ), English Ramist logician and Provost of Trinity College, Dublin