Deaths Between 1468 & 1599

• Ashikaga Yoshimi dies (b. 1439).
  

1493 Deaths

• Hatakeyama Masanaga commits suicide.
  

1494 Deaths

• 1494/5/20 Takeda Nobuhiro, ancestor of the Matsumae clan of Ezo, dies (b. 1431).
  
• 1494/10/5 Omori Ujiyori dies.
  
• Uesugi Sadamasa dies.
  

1495 Deaths

• Ômori Fujiyori dies.
  
• Ôuchi Masahiro dies (b. 1446).
  

1496 and Deaths

• Hino Tomiko, wife of shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa, dies (b. 1440).
  

1497 Deaths

• Shoni Yoritada dies.
  

1498 Deaths

• Ashikaga Chachamaru dies.
  

1499 Deaths

• Rennyo dies (b. 1415).
  
• Zenchiku Ujinobu dies (b. 1414).
  

1500 Deaths

• Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado (b. 1442) dies.
  

1502 Deaths

• Murata Shukô, considered the father of the tea ceremony, dies.
  
• Sôgi dies (b. 1421).
  
• Urakami Norimune dies.
  

1504 Deaths

• Togashi Yasutaka dies.
  
• Yakushiji Motoichi dies (b. 1475).
  

1505 Deaths

• The Ryukyuan Empress Dowager Ogiyaka dies.
  
• Satomi Shigeyoshi dies (b. 1448).
  
• Takeda Nobumasa dies (b. 1447).
  

1506 Deaths

• Painter Sesshû dies (b. 1420).
  

1507 Deaths

• 1507/7 Hosokawa Masamoto is assassinated by his adopted son Sumiyuki.
  
• Akazawa Tomotsune dies.
  
• Hosokawa Sumiyuki commits suicide.
  
• Kôsai Motochika is killed.
  
• Takeda Nobutsuna (b. 1471), head of the Takeda clan of Kai, dies.
  

1508 Deaths

• Shimazu Tadamasa, lord of Satsuma, dies (b. 1463).
  

1509 Deaths

• Chinese painter Shen Zhou dies (b. 1427).
  

1510 Deaths

• Uesugi Akisada is killed.
  

1511 Deaths

• Shogun Ashikaga Yoshizumi dies.
  
• Kampaku Ichijô Fusaie dies (b. 1445).
  

1515 Deaths

• Shimazu Tadaharu dies (b. 1489).
  

1516 Deaths

• Kanze Kojiro Nobumitsu dies.
  
• Miura Yoshiatsu commits suicide.
  
• Miura Yoshimoto commits suicide.
  
• Môri Okimoto dies.
  

1517 Deaths

• Ashina Moritaka (b. 1448), head of the Ashina clan, dies.
  
• Naata Ufushu (b. 1456), chieftain of Ishigaki-jima, dies.
  
• Takeda Motoshige, head of the Takeda clan (Aki) is killed.
  

1518 Deaths

• Amako Masahisa is killed.
  
• Satomi Yoshimichi dies.
  

1519 Deaths

• Hôjô Sôun dies.
  
• Toki Masafusa dies.
  
• Leonardo da Vinci dies (b. 1452).
  

1520 Deaths

• Former Kanrei Hosokawa Sumimoto dies in Shikoku.
  
• Jinbo Yoshimune commits suicide.
  
• Miyoshi Yukinaga commits suicide.
  

1521 Deaths

• Ferdinand Magellan is killed in the Philippines.
  
• The Zhengde Emperor dies without an heir.
  

1522 Deaths

• Ashikaga Yoshitane dies.
  
• Kanze Doken dies.
  

1524 Deaths

• Katsura Hirozumi commits suicide.
  

1525 Deaths

• Sôami dies.
  
• Painter Tosa Mitsunobu dies (b. 1494).
  

1527 Deaths

• Murakami Takakatsu dies.
  

1528 Deaths

• 1528/12/20 Ôuchi Yoshioki dies (b. 1477).
  

1529 Deaths

• Wang Yangming dies (b. 1472).
  

1530 Deaths

• Kanô Masanobu dies (b. 1434).
  

1531 Deaths

• Ashikaga Masauji dies (b. 1466).
  
• Ashikaga Shigeuji, Kamakura Kubô, dies.
  
• Kanrei Hosokawa Takakuni commits suicide.
  
• Matsudaira Nobutada dies (b. 1489).
  

1532 Deaths

• Komparu Zenpo dies.
  
• Miyoshi Motonaga commits suicide.
  

1533 Deaths

• Satomi Sanetaka, lord of Awa province, suffers the defection of his nephew Satomi Yoshitoyo and commits suicide (b. 1483).
  

1535 Deaths

• Ashikaga Takamoto dies (b. 1485).
  
• Katanuma Nobutomo dies.
  
• Takeda Mitsuo dies.
  

1536 Deaths

• Imagawa Ujiteru dies.
  
• Nagao Tamekage dies.
  

1541 Death

• Kanze Nagatoshi dies (b. 1488).
  

1542 Deaths

• Nagoya Yagorô is killed at the first battle of Azukizaka.
  

1545 Deaths

• Hatakeyama Yoshifusa, lord of Nanao, dies (b. 1495?).
  

1549 Deaths

• 1549/3/6 Matsudaira Hirotada of Mikawa is killed.
  

1550 Deaths

• Ôtomo Yoshiaki is assassinated.
  

1551 Deaths

• 1551/3/3 Oda Nobuhide dies.
  
• 1551/9/1 Ôuchi Yoshitaka commits suicide.
  

1552 Deaths

• Francis Xavier dies (b. 1506).
  

1554 Deaths

• Amako Kunihisa is killed.
  
• Amako Sanehisa is killed.
  
• Shiba Yoshimune dies.
  
• Shônyo Kôkyo, founder of the Ishiyama Honganji, dies.
  

1555 Deaths

• 1555/9/23 Asakura Norikage dies.
  
• 1555/10 Sue Harukata dies.
  
• Komparu Sotan dies.
  
• Shô Sei, king of Ryûkyû, dies (b. 1497).
  
• Tea master Takeno Jôô dies (b. 1502).
  

1556 Deaths

• 1556/4/20 Saitô Dôsan dies (b. 1494).
  

1557 Deaths

• 1557/4/2 Ôuchi Yoshinaga commits suicide.
  
• 1557/11 Oda Nobuyuki is killed.
  

1558 Deaths

• Hosho Ikkan dies.
  

1559 Deaths

• Kanô Motonobu, painter, dies (b. 1476).
  
• Wen Zhengming dies (b. 1470).
  
• Yuki Masakatsu, lord of Shimosa province, dies (b. 1503).
  

1560 Deaths 

• 1560/5/19 Imagawa Yoshimoto is killed in battle at Okehazama.
  

1561 Deaths

• 1561/6 Saitô Yoshitatsu dies of leprosy.
  

1562 Deaths 

• Amako Akihisa dies.
  

1564 Deaths

• 1564/4 Miyoshi Chôkei dies.
  
• Kongô Magojirô Hisatsugu of the Kongô school of Noh dies.
  

1565 Deaths

• Ashikaga Yoshiteru commits suicide.
  
• Môri Takamoto, Môri Motonari’s heir, dies.
  
• Queen Munjeong of Korea dies (b. 1501).
  
• Satake Yoshiaki dies.
  

1567 Deaths

• King Myeongjeong of Korea dies.
  
• Takeda Yoshinobu commits suicide.
  

1568 Deaths

• Shimazu Tadayoshi dies (b. 1492).
  

1569 Deaths

1570 Deaths

• Cosme de Torres dies.
  

1571 Deaths

• 1571/5 Shimazu Takahisa dies.
  
• 1571/6/14 Môri Motonari dies.
  
• 1571/10/3 Hôjô Ujiyasu dies.
  
• Tsukahara Bokuden, founder of Kashima Shintô-ryû, dies (b. 1490).
  

1572 Deaths

• Hosho Shigekatsu dies.
  
• King Shô Gen of Ryûkyû, dies (b. 1528).
  

1573 Deaths

• 1573/2 - Murakami Yoshikiyo dies at Nechi Castle in Echigo Province.
  
• 1573/4/12 - Takeda Shingen (52) dies at Komanba in Shinano Province.
  

1574 Deaths

• Asakura Kageakira dies.
  
• Hatakeyama Yoshitaka is poisoned and killed in a conspiracy against him.
  
• Kanze Motoyori dies.
  

1575 Deaths

• Mimura Motochika commits suicide.
  
• Takeda Nobuzane, Baba Nobufusa, Yamagata Masakage, Naito Masatoyo, Hara Masatane, Sanada Nobutsuna, Sanada Masateru, Kasai Mitsuhide, Wada Narishige, Yonekura Shigetsugu, Torii Suneemon and Atobe Shigemasa are killed at the Battle of Nagashino.
  

1576 Deaths

• Kongô Ujimasa dies.
  

1577 Deaths

• Kanze Motohisa dies.
  
• Matsunaga Hisahide commits suicide after turning on Nobunaga.
  

1578 Deaths

• 1578/3/13 Uesugi Kenshin dies.
  

1581 Deaths

• Yusa Tsugumitsu, Oda retainer, is killed upon the orders of Oda Nobunaga.
  

1582 Deaths

• 1582/3 Abe Katsuyoshi and Takeda Katsuyori, among others, are killed at Tenmokuzan.
  
• 1582/6/2 Oda Nobunaga is killed at Honnô-ji.
  
• 1582/6/15 Akechi Mitsuhide is killed.
  
• Anayama Beisetsu is killed shortly after the attack on Honnô-ji.
  
• Fuwa Mitsuharu dies.
  
• Kuchiba Michiyoshi dies.
  
• Zhang Juzheng dies.
  

1583 Deaths

• 1583/4/24 Shibata Katsuie and Oichi commit suicide at Kitanoshô castle.
  
• Missionary Luis de Almeida dies (b. 1525).
  
• Nakagawa Kiyohide dies.
  
• Sakuma Morimasa is captured at Shizugatake and later executed.
  
• Shibata Katsumasa is killed at Shizugatake.
  
• Shibata Katsuhisa is killed at Shizugatake.
  

1585 Deaths

• Niwa Nagahide dies.
  
• Maeda Hidetsugu and his wife are killed in the Etchû earthquake.
  
• Pope Gregory XIII dies (b. 1502).
  

1588 Deaths

• Sasa Narimasa dies.
  

1590 Deaths

• Naganuma Morihide dies.
  
• Noted painter Kanô Eitoku (b. 1543) dies.
  

1591 Deaths

• 1591/1/22 Toyotomi Hidenaga (b. 1540) dies.
  
• 1591/2/28 Sen no Rikyû (b. 1522) commits suicide.
  
• Tsuda Sôgyû dies.
  

1592 Deaths

• Kanô Shôei dies (b. 1519).
  
• Uemura Masakatsu dies.
  

1593 Deaths

• 1593/8/3 Yodogimi gives birth to Toyotomi Hideyori (d. 1615).
  
• Gushichan Nôan (Kin Kokutei) dies.
  
• Imai Sôkyû dies (b. 1520).
  

1594 Deaths

• Hatakeyama Yoshitsuna, lord of Noto, dies (b. 1536).
  
• Hongo Tadatora, Shimazu retainer, dies (b. 1556).
  
• Ishikawa Goemon, famous thief, is captured and executed.
  
• Shimazu Teruhisa dies (b. 1567).
  
• Watari Motomune dies (b. 1530).
  

1595 Deaths

• 1595/7/15 Toyotomi Hidetsugu commits suicide on the orders of his uncle Hideyoshi.
  

1598 Deaths

• 1598/7/17 Akamatsu Norifusa dies.
  
• 1598/8/18 Toyotomi Hideyoshi dies.
  
• Philip II of Spain dies (b. 1527).
  
• Yi Sun-shin dies (b. 1545).
  

1599 Deaths

• 1599/int. 3/3 Maeda Toshiie dies.
  
• Shimazu clan retainer Ijuin Tadamune is murdered within the Shimazu daimyo’s residence.
  
• Chôsokabe Motochika (b. 1539) dies and is succeeded by Morichika.