* 1555 – Edward Kelley, English spirit medium ( d. 1597 )

* 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 – 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

By 1555 he had completed his work on the New Testament, finishing with the Acts and the Gospels ( he omitted only the brief second and third Epistles of John and the Book of Revelation ).

The first executions occurred over a period of five days in early February 1555: John Rogers on 4 February, Laurence Saunders on 8 February, and Rowland Taylor and John Hooper on 9 February.

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

Around 1555 Southwark St Thomas was split off from St Olave and Southwark St John Horsleydown was split off in 1733.

* John Bradford ( 1510 – 1555 ), religious reformer.

Holt is the seat of Gresham's School, a long-established public school founded in 1555 by Sir John Gresham, originally for boys only but co-educational since 1971.

Either before or after this he became apprentice to his uncle Sir John Gresham, also a merchant, who founded Gresham's School in Holt, Norfolk in 1555: we have his own testimony that he served an apprenticeship of eight years.

Henry II ( 18 April 1503 – 25 May 1555 ) was the eldest son of John III of Navarre ( died 1516 ) and Catherine I of Navarre, sister and heiress of Francis Phoebus, King of Navarre ; he was born at Sangüesa.

Other confessions had acquired popular, if not legal, legitimacy in the intervening decades and by 1555, the reforms proposed by Luther were no longer the only possibilities of religious expression: Anabaptists, such as the Frisian Menno Simons ( 1492 – 1559 ) and his followers ; the followers of John Calvin, who were particularly strong in the southwest and the northwest ; and the followers of Huldrych Zwingli were excluded from considerations and protections under the Peace of Augsburg.

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.

John Rogers was " tested by fire " on 4 February 1555 at Smithfield, England ; the first to meet this fate under Mary I of England.

Whittingham was one of those appointed to draw up a service-book, and he procured a letter from John Calvin, dated 18 January 1555, which won over some ; but the compromise adopted was disturbed by the arrival of Richard Cox, who was an uncompromising champion of the prayer-book.

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.

He was born at Worcester on August 1, 1555, at 4 P. M. according to a horoscope that John Dee drew up and based on notes Dee kept in his almanac, which he used as a diary.

In addition he held a series of prestigious positions as maestro for Basilica dei Santi Apostoli, Rome ( from 1686 ), at St. John Lateran ( from 1708, where Palestrina had served from 1555 to 1560 ), and for the Cappella Giulia at St. Peter ’ s ( from 1719, immediately following Domenico Scarlatti ), and maestro di cappella at the Collegium Germanicum in Rome.

In the film the conspiracy included Bishop Stephen Gardiner, a counter-reformer who had died in 1555 before Elizabeth's accession, and John Ballard, who was involved in the later Babington Plot.

His father was a son of John Doddridge ( 1621 – 1689 ), rector of Shepperton, Middlesex, who resigned his living after the Act of Uniformity of 1662 and became a nonconformist minister, and a great-nephew of the judge and MP Sir John Doddridge ( 1555 – 1628 ).

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

John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford, 1555

* Jane Dudley, Duchess of Northumberland ( 1508 / 1509 – 1555 ), wife of John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland

On 29 January 1555, Hooper, John Rogers, Rowland Taylor and others were condemned by Gardiner and degraded by Bonner.

On January 22, 1555, Rowland Taylor ( Vicar or Rector of Hadleigh ), and several other clergy, including John Hooper, were examined by a commission of leading bishops and lawyers.

* John Hooper, King Edward-era bishop of Gloucester and Worcester ( martyr ) – burned in Gloucester, 9 February 1555.