1490s - Wikiwand

The 1490s decade ran from January 1, 1490, to December 31, 1499.

1490

January–December

January 4 – Anne of Brittany announces that all those who ally themselves with the king of France will be considered guilty of the crime of Lèse-majesté.
March 13 – Charles II becomes Duke of Savoy at age 1; his mother Blanche of Montferrato is regent.
March or April – 1490 Qingyang event, a presumed meteor shower or air burst over Qingyang in Ming dynasty China, said to have caused casualties.
July 4 – Battle of Bonefield: John Corvinus is defeated by the Kingdom of Hungary.
July 13 – John of Kastav finishes a cycle of frescoes in the Holy Trinity Church, Hrastovlje (modern-day southwestern Slovenia).
July 22 – Ashikaga Yoshitane becomes 10th Muromachi shōgun of Japan.
November 20 – The first edition of the chivalric romance Tirant lo Blanch, by Joanot Martorell, is printed in Valencia.
December 19 – Anne of Brittany is married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy.^[1]

Date unknown

Perkin Warbeck claims to be the son of King Henry VII of England, at the court of Burgundy.
Traditional date of the Battle of Glendale (Skye) between the Scottish clans MacDonald and MacLeod.
Catholic missionaries arrive in the African Kingdom of Kongo.
Pêro da Covilhã arrives in Ethiopia.
Regular postal service connects the Habsburg residences of Mechelen and Innsbruck, the first in Germany.
Leonardo da Vinci observes capillary action, in small-bore tubes.
Leonardo da Vinci develops an oil lamp: the flame is enclosed in a glass tube, placed inside a water-filled glass globe.
All Saints' Church, the Schlosskirche in Wittenberg, is begun.
Tirant lo Blanch, by Joanot Martorell and Martí Joan de Galba, is published.
Aldus Manutius moves to Venice.
John Colet receives his M.A. from Magdalen College, Oxford.
Johann Reuchlin meets Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.
Merchants carry coffee from Yemen to Mecca (approximate date).
Battle of Chocontá: The northern (zaque) tribes of the pre-Columbian Muisca Confederation (central Colombia) are beaten by the southern (zipa) tribes.

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Births

1490

February 14 – Valentin Friedland, German scholar and educator of the Reformation (d. 1556)
February 17 – Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, French military leader (d. 1527)
March 6 – Fridolin Sicher, Swiss composer (d. 1546)
March 22 – Francesco Maria I della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, Italian noble (d. 1538)
March 24 – Giovanni Salviati, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1553)
April – Vittoria Colonna, Italian poet (d. 1547)
April 4 – Vojtěch I of Pernstein, Bohemian nobleman (d. 1534)
May 17 – Albert, Duke of Prussia, last Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (d. 1568)
June 28 – Albert of Mainz, German elector and archbishop (d. 1545)
July 25 – Amalie of the Palatinate, Duchess consort of Pomerania (d. 1524)
August 5 – Andrey of Staritsa, son of Ivan III "the Great" of Russia (d. 1537)
September 23 – Johann Heß, German theologian (d. 1547)
October – Olaus Magnus, Swedish ecclesiastic and writer (d. 1557)
October 12 – Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer (d. 1548)^[47]
November 10 – John III, Duke of Cleves (d. 1539)
December 25 – Francesco Marinoni, Italian Roman Catholic priest (d. 1562)
December 26 – Friedrich Myconius, German Lutheran theologian (d. 1546)
December 30 – Ebussuud Efendi, Ottoman Grand Mufti (d. 1574)
approx. date – Properzia de' Rossi, Italian Renaissance sculptor (d. 1530)
date unknown
- Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus, Scottish noble (d. 1556)
- Luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist (d. 1566)
- Bars Bolud Jinong, Mongol Khagan (d. 1531)
- Argula von Grumbach, German Protestant reformer (d. 1564)
- Jean Salmon Macrin, French poet (d. 1557)
- Caspar Schwenckfeld, German theologian (d. 1561)
- Anna Bielke, Swedish noble and commander (d. 1525)
- David Reubeni, Jewish political activist and mystic (d. 1541)
probable
- Wijerd Jelckama, Frisian rebel and warlord (d. 1523)
- Adriaen Isenbrandt, Flemish painter (d. 1551)
- Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1567)^[48]
- María de Toledo, Vicereine and regent of the Spanish Colony of Santo Domingo (d. 1549)
- John Taverner, English composer and organist (d. 1545)
- María de Salinas, Lady Willoughby, Spanish lady-in-waiting and friend to Catherine of Aragon
- Quilago, queen regnant of the Cochasquí in Ecuador (d. 1515)

1491

January 30 – Francesco Sforza, Italian noble (d. 1512)
March 25 – Marie d'Albret, Countess of Rethel, French nobility (d. 1549)
May 10 – Suzanne, Duchess of Bourbon (d. 1521)
June 28 – Henry VIII of England (d. 1547)^[49]
August 3 – Maria of Jülich-Berg, spouse of John III, Duke of Cleves (d. 1543)
August 10 – Queen Janggyeong, Korean royal consort (d. 1515)
August 25 – Innocenzo Cybo, Catholic cardinal (d. 1550)
October 6 – Francis de Bourbon, Count of St. Pol, French noble (d. 1545)
c. October 23 – Ignatius of Loyola, Spanish founder of the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic religious order (d. 1556)
October 26 – Zhengde Emperor of China (d. 1521)
November 8 – Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet (d. 1544)
November 11 – Martin Bucer, German Protestant reformer (d. 1551)
December 13 – Martín de Azpilcueta, Spanish theologian and economist (d. 1586)
December 31 – Jacques Cartier, French explorer (d. 1557)^[50]
date unknown
- Lapulapu, Filipino king (d. 1542)
- Azai Sukemasa, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1546)
- Isabella Losa, Spanish scholar (d. 1564)
probable
- George Blaurock, Swiss founder of Anabaptism (d. 1529)
- Antonio Pigafetta, Italian explorer (d. 1534)

1492

January 22 – Beatrix of Baden, Margravine of Baden, Countess Palatine consort of Simmern (d. 1535)
March 4 – Francesco de Layolle, Italian composer (d. c. 1540)
March 21 – John II, Count Palatine of Simmern, Count Palatine of Simmern (1509-1557) (d. 1557)
March 27 – Adam Ries, German mathematician (d. 1559)
April 4 – Ambrosius Blarer, influential reformer in southern Germany and north-eastern Switzerland (d. 1564)
April 6 – Maud Green, English noble (d. 1531)
April 11 – Marguerite de Navarre, queen of Henry II of Navarre (d. 1549)^[51]
April 20 – Pietro Aretino, Italian author (d. 1556)
April 24 – Duchess Sabina of Bavaria (d. 1564)
May 8 – Andrea Alciato, Italian jurist and writer (d. 1550)
June 4 – Hirate Masahide, Japanese retainer and tutor of Oda Nobunaga (d. 1553)
August 1 – Wolfgang, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, German prince (d. 1566)
August 8 – Matteo Tafuri, Italian alchemist (d. 1582)
September 12 – Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (d. 1519)^[52]
September 29 – Chamaraja Wodeyar III, King of Mysore (d. 1553)
October 1 – Georg Rörer, German theologian (d. 1557)
October 11 – Charles Orlando, Dauphin of France, French noble (d. 1495)
October 30 – Anne d'Alençon, French noblewoman (d. 1562)
November 12 – Johan Rantzau, German general (d. 1565)
November 27 – Donato Giannotti, Italian writer (d. 1573)
date unknown
- Argula von Grumbach, German Protestant reformer (d. 1554)
- Berchtold Haller, Swiss reformer (d. 1536)
- Amago Kunihisa, Japanese nobleman (d. 1554)
- Giacomo Aconcio, Italian pioneer of religious tolerance (d. 1566)
- Edward Wotton, English physician and zoologist (d. 1555)
probable
- Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland (d. 1543)
- Fernán Pérez de Oliva, Spanish man of letters (d. 1531)
- Polidoro da Caravaggio, Italian painter (d. 1543)
- Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Spanish historian (d. 1584)

1493

January 2 – Louis de Bourbon de Vendôme, French cardinal (d. 1557)
January 6 – Olaus Petri, Swedish clergyman (d. 1552)
January 9 – Johann of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Viceroy of Valencia, German noble (d. 1525)
January 25 – Maximilian Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1530)
January 26
- Min Bin, king of Arakan (d. 1554)
- Giovanni Poggio, Italian cardinal and diplomat (d. 1556)
- Ippolita Maria Sforza, Italian noble (d. 1501)
February 9 – Helen of the Palatinate, Duchess of Pomerania (d. 1524)
March 15 – Anne de Montmorency, Constable of France (d. 1567)
April 11 – George I, Duke of Pomerania from the House of Griffins (d. 1531)
April 25 – Giovanni Gaddi, Italian priest (d. 1542)
May 5 – Alessandro Pasqualini, Italian architect (d. 1559)
May 6 – Girolamo Seripando, Catholic cardinal (d. 1563)
June 5 – Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (d. 1555)
June 10 – Anton Fugger, German merchant (d. 1560)
September 28 – Agnolo Firenzuola, Italian poet and litterateur (d. 1543)
September 29 – Yi Gwang-sik, Korean politician and general (d. 1563)
October 14 – Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (d. 1568)
October 17 – Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Renaissance Italian sculptor (d. 1560)
November 11 – Bernardo Tasso, Italian courtier and poet (d. 1569)^[53]
November 11 or December 17 – Paracelsus, born Philippus von Hohenheim, Swiss physician and scientist (d. 1541)^[54]
November 17 – John Neville, 3rd Baron Latimer, English politician (d. 1543)
November 25 – Osanna of Cattaro, Dominican visionary and anchoress (d. 1565)
December 9 – Íñigo López de Mendoza, 4th Duke of the Infantado (d. 1566)
December 25 – Antoinette de Bourbon, French noblewoman (d. 1583)
December 27 – Johann Pfeffinger, German theologian (d. 1573)
December 31 – Eleonora Gonzaga, Duchess of Urbino, Italian politically active duchess (d. 1570)
date unknown
- Jobst II, Count of Hoya (d. 1545)
- Simon Grynaeus, German scholar and theologian (d. 1541)
- Matsudaira Shigeyoshi, Japanese general (d. 1580)
probable
- Jean du Bellay, French cardinal and diplomat (d. 1560)
- Robert Maxwell, 5th Lord Maxwell, Scottish statesman (d. 1546)

1494

February 2 – Bona Sforza, queen of Sigismund I of Poland (d. 1557)
February 11 – Takeda Nobutora, Japanese warlord (d. 1574)
February 20 – Johan Friis, Danish statesman (d. 1570)
March 24 – Georgius Agricola, German mineralogist and scholar (d. 1555)
March 25 – Elisabeth of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach, Margravine (d. 1518)
April 4 – Ambrosius Moibanus, German theologian (d. 1554)
April 20 – Johannes Agricola, German Protestant reformer (d. 1566)
April 25 – Juan Téllez-Girón, 4th Count of Ureña, Spanish count (d. 1558)
May 24 – Pontormo, Italian painter (d. 1557)
August 18 – Johannes Scheubel, German mathematician (d. 1570)
September 8 – Sri Chand, Indian founder of the ascetic sect of Udasi (d. 1629)
September 11 – Elisabeth of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Duchess of Guelders (1518–1538) (d. 1572)
September 12 – King Francis I of France (d. 1547)^[55]
October 31 – Wolfgang of the Palatinate, Count Palatine of Neumarkt (1524–1558), governor of the Upper Palatinate (d. 1558)
November 5 – Hans Sachs, German meistersinger ("mastersinger") (d. 1576)
November 6 – Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1566)
November 12 – Margaret of Anhalt-Köthen, Princess of Anhalt by birth, Duchess consort of Saxony (d. 1521)
November (probable) – François Rabelais, French Renaissance writer (d. 1553)
date unknown
- Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, Spanish explorer and cartographer (d. 1519)
- Christina Gyllenstierna, Swedish national heroine (d. 1559)
- Ambrosius Holbein, German painter (d. 1519)
- Qiu Ying, Chinese painter (d. 1552)
- Saitō Dōsan, Japanese warlord (d. 1556)
- John Sutton, 3rd Baron Dudley (d. 1554)
- Hans Tausen, Danish religious reformer (d. 1561)

1495

January 26 – Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (d. 1557)
February 4
- Francesco II Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1535)
- Jean Parisot de Valette, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller (d. 1568)
February 13 – Giacomo Puteo, Spanish cardinal (d. 1563)
March 6 – Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet and statesman (d. 1556)
March 8 – John of God, Portuguese friar and saint (d. 1550)
March 26 – Michele Antonio, Marquess of Saluzzo (d. 1528)
March 29 – Leonhard Päminger, Austrian composer (d. 1567)
April 16 – Petrus Apianus, German humanist (d. 1552)
August 1 – Jan van Scorel, Dutch painter (d. 1562)
August 24 – Otto I, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg, Prince of Lüneburg and Baron of Harburg (d. 1549)
September 18 – Louis X, Duke of Bavaria, German noble (d. 1545)
September 20 – Gian Matteo Giberti, Catholic bishop (d. 1543)
September 23 – Bagrat III of Imereti, King of Imereti (d. 1565)
September 24 – Barbara of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach, Landgravine of Leuchtenberg (d. 1552)
November 1 – Erhard Schnepf, German theologian (d. 1558)
November 21 – John Bale, English churchman (d. 1563)^[56]
December 5 – Nicolas Cleynaerts, Flemish grammarian (d. 1542)
date unknown
- Robert Barnes, English reformer and martyr (d. 1540)
- Cuauhtémoc, 11th Tlatoani (emperor) of Tenochtitlan (modern Mexico City), 1520-1521 (d. 1525)^[57]
- Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton (d. 1568)
probable
- Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish conquistador (d. 1541)
- Marie Dentière, Genevan Protestant reformer and theologian (d. 1561)
- Costanzo Festa, Italian composer (d. 1545)
- Nicolas Gombert, Flemish composer (d. 1560)

1496

March 18 – Mary Tudor, Queen of Louis XII of France, daughter of Henry VII of England (d. 1533)
May 12 – King Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1560)
July 10 – Johann Forster, German theologian (d. 1558)
August 28 – Konrad Heresbach, German Calvinist (d. 1576)
September 27 – Hieronymus Łaski, Polish diplomat (d. 1542)
October 20 – Claude, Duke of Guise, French aristocrat and general (d. 1550)
November 23 – Clément Marot, French poet of the Renaissance period (d. 1544)
December 20 – Joseph ha-Kohen, Spanish-born French Jewish historian and physician (d. 1575)
December 21 – Elisabeth Corvinus, Hungarian princess (d. 1508)
date unknown
- Lazare de Baïf, French diplomat and author (d. 1547)
- João de Barros, Portuguese historian (d. 1570)
- Cuauhtémoc, 11th Tlatoani (emperor) of Tenochtitlan (modern Mexico City), 1520–1521, (d. 1521)^[58]
- Dirck Jacobsz., Dutch painter (d. 1567)
- Richard Maitland, Scottish poet (d. 1586)
- Louise de Montmorency, French noblewoman (d. 1547)
- Martín Ocelotl, Mexican priest (d. c. 1537)
- William Roper, son-in-law and biographer of Thomas More (d. 1578)
- Giovanni Battista da Sangallo, Italian architect (d. 1548)
- Menno Simons, Dutch Anabaptist leader (d. 1561)
- Agostino Steuco, Italian humanist scholar (d. 1548)
- Johann Walter, Lutheran composer and poet (d. 1570)
probable – Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester (d. 1549)
- María Pacheco, Spanish heroine and defender of Toledo (d. 1531)

1497

February 16 – Philip Melanchthon, German humanist and reformer (d. 1560)^[59]
February 19 – Matthäus Schwarz, German fashion writer (d. 1574)
March – Giovanni Paolo I Sforza, Italian condottiero (d. 1535)
April 2 – Georg Giese, German merchant (d. 1562)
April 16 – Mōri Motonari, Japanese daimyō (d. 1571)
April 17 – Pedro de Valdivia, Spanish conquistador (d. 1553)
May 3 – Wilhelm IV of Eberstein, President of the Reichskammergericht (d. 1562)
May 21 – Al-Hattab, Tripolitanian Muslim jurist (d. 1547)
June 27 – Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1546)
July 15 – Francis of Denmark, Danish prince (d. 1511)
August 18 – Francesco Canova da Milano, Italian composer (d. 1543)
September 10 – Wolfgang Musculus, German theologian (d. 1563)
October 29 – Benedetto Accolti the Younger, Italian cardinal (d. 1549)
date unknown
- Jean Fernel, French physician (d. 1558)^[60]
- Gonzalo de Sandoval, Spanish conquistador (d. 1528)
- Margareta Eriksdotter Vasa, Swedish noblewoman (d. 1536)
- Johann Wild, German preacher (d. 1554)
probable
- Francesco Berni, Italian poet (d. 1536)
- John Heywood, English playwright (d. 1580)

1498

January 31 – Tiberio Crispo, Italian clergyman (d. 1566)
February 4 – George I of Württemberg-Mömpelgard (d. 1558)
February 21 – Ralph Neville, 4th Earl of Westmorland, English earl (d. 1549)
February 25 – Francesco of Saluzzo, Marquess of Saluzzo (d. 1537)
April 5 – Giovanni dalle Bande Nere, Italian condottiero (d. 1526)
April 9 – Jean, Cardinal of Lorraine, French churchman (d. 1550)
June 1 – Maarten van Heemskerck, Dutch painter (d. 1574)
June 30 – Wilhelm von Brandenburg, Archbishop of Riga (d. 1563)
July 25 – Hernando de Aragón, Spanish Catholic archbishop (d. 1575)
August 23 – Miguel da Paz, Prince of Portugal (d. 1500)
August 24 – John, Hereditary Prince of Saxony, German prince (d. 1537)
November 1 – Giovanni Ricci, Italian cardinal (d. 1574)
November 15 – Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France (d. 1558)^[61]
December 1 – Giovanni Michele Saraceni, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1568)
December 19 – Andreas Osiander, German Protestant theologian (d. 1552)
date unknown
- Giulio Clovio, (Juraj Julije Klovic) Dalmatian miniaturist and illustrator (d. 1578)
- Anna of Masovia, Polish princess (d. 1557)
- Meera, Rajput princess (d. 1547)
- Sagara Taketō, Japanese retainer (d. 1551)
- Pier Paolo Vergerio, Italian religious reformer (d. 1565)
- Felix Manz, leader of the Swiss Anabaptists (d. 1527)

1499

January 15 – Samuel Maciejowski, Polish bishop (d. 1550)
January 20 – Sebastian Franck, German humanist (d. 1543)
January 29 – Katharina von Bora, German nun, wife of Martin Luther (d. 1552)
February 10 – Thomas Platter, Swiss humanist scholar and writer (d. 1582)
March 22 – Johann Carion, German astrologer and chronicler (d. 1537)
March 31 – Pope Pius IV (d. 1565)^[62]
May 14 – Agostino Gallo, Italian agronomist (d. 1570)
June 24 – Johannes Brenz, German theologian and Protestant Reformer of the Duchy of Württemberg (d. 1570)
July 17 – Maria Salviati, Italian noble and mother of Cosimo I de Medici (d. 1543)
August 14 – John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford, English noble (d. 1526)
September 3 – Diane de Poitiers, French duchess, mistress of Henry II of France (d. 1566)
October 13 – Claude of France, queen consort of France, daughter of Louis XII of France (d. 1524)
October 14 – Catherine of the Palatinate, Abbess of Neuburg am Neckar (d. 1526)
October 31 – Günther XL, Count of Schwarzburg (1526–1552) (d. 1552)
November 1 – Rodrigo of Aragon, Italian noble (d. 1512)
December 8 – Sebald Heyden, German musicologist and theologian (d. 1561)
December 13 – Justus Menius, German Lutheran pastor (d. 1558)
date unknown
- Hans Asper, Swiss painter (d. 1571)
- Michael Coxcie, Flemish painter (d. 1592)
- Cesare Hercolani, Italian military leader (d. 1534)
- Jan Łaski, Polish Protestant reformer (d. 1560)
- Laurentius Petri, Archbishop of Uppsala (d. 1573)
- Giulio Romano, Italian painter (d. 1546)
- Bernardino de Sahagún, Franciscan missionary (d. 1590)
- Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia, Italian mathematician (d. 1557)
- Ming, Icelandic clam (d. 2006)^[63]
probable – Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, Portuguese explorer (d. 1543)

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Deaths

1490

January 27 – Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shōgun (b. 1435)
March 6 – Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (b. 1458)
April 6 – King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary (b. 1443)^[64]
May 12 – Joanna, Portuguese Roman Catholic blessed and regent (b. 1452)
May 22 – Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent (b. 1416)
August 11 – Frans van Brederode, Dutch rebel leader (b. 1465)
date unknown
- Martí Joan de Galba, Catalan novelist
- Aonghas Óg, last independent Lord of the Isles

1491

January 19 – Dorothea of Brandenburg, Duchess of Mecklenburg (b. 1420)
February 15 – Ashikaga Yoshimi, brother of Shōgun Ashikaga Yoshimasa (b. 1439)
February 19 – Enno I, Count of East Frisia (1466–1491) (b. 1460)
March 6 – Richard Woodville, 3rd Earl Rivers
March 31 – Bonaventura Tornielli, Italian Roman Catholic priest (b. 1411)
May 14 – Filippo Strozzi the Elder, Italian banker (b. 1428)
July 13 – Afonso, Prince of Portugal (b. 1475)
July 16 – William Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English earl (b. 1451)
October 5 – Jean Balue, French cardinal and statesman (b. c. 1421)
October 12 – Fritz Herlen, German artist (b. 1449)
November 16 – Holy Child of La Guardia, Spanish folk saint (b. n/a)
December 28 – Bertoldo di Giovanni, Italian sculptor (b. c. 1435)
date unknown – Anne of Orléans, Abbess of Fontevraud (b. 1464)
date unknown – Musa ibn Abi al-Ghassan, knight of Granada
probable
- February 9 (according to the Libro dei Morti) – Antonia di Paolo di Dono, Italian artist and daughter of Paolo di Dono

1492

January 25 – Ygo Gales Galama, Frisian warlord and freedom-fighting rebel (murdered) (b. 1443)
April 8 – Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1449)^[65]
March 19 – Philip II, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (1429–1492) (b. 1418)
c. May 21 – John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk (b. 1442)
June 7 – Casimir IV Jagiellon, King of Poland (b. 1427)
June 8 – Elizabeth Woodville, Queen of Edward IV of England (b. 1437)^[66]
July 1 – Henry the Younger of Poděbrady, Bohemian nobleman (b. 1452)
July 25 – Pope Innocent VIII (b. 1432)^[67]
August 9 – Beatrice of Silva, Spanish Dominican and Roman Catholic nun and a saint
September 20 – Anne Neville, Countess of Warwick (b. 1426)
September 23 – Peter Courtenay, English bishop and politician
October 12 – Piero della Francesca, Italian artist (b. c. 1412)^[68]
October 25 – Thaddeus McCarthy, Irish bishop (b. c. 1455)
November 6 – Antoine Busnois, French composer and poet (b. c. 1430)
November 9 – Jami, Persian poet (b. 1414)
November 24 – Loys of Gruuthuse, Earl of Winchester (b. c. 1427)

Ali al-Jabarti, Somali scholar and politician
Baccio Pontelli, Italian architect (b. c. 1450)
Dhammazedi, Burmese king of Hanthawaddy (b. 1409)
Eric Clauesson, Swedish Norse pagan
Satal Rathore, Rao of Marwar
Sonni Ali, Songhai ruler

1493

May – Pietro Antonio Solari, Italian architect (b. 1450)
May 10 – Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. c. 1433)
May 14 – Nannina de' Medici, member of de' Medici family (b. 1448)
June 14 – Ermolao Barbaro, Italian scholar (b. 1454)
August 19 – Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1415)
September 9 – Mirko Derenčin, Croatian leader
October 11 – Eleanor of Naples, Duchess of Ferrara (b. 1450)
October 22 – James Douglas, 1st Earl of Morton
November 6 – Andrey Bolshoy, Russian prince (b. 1446)
date unknown
- Ahmad Zarruq, Moroccan scholar and Sufi sheikh (b. 1442)
- James Blount, English soldier
- Isabel Bras Williamson, Scottish merchant (b. 1430)
- Kim Si-sŭp, Korean scholar and author (b. 1435)
- Martín Alonso Pinzón, Spanish navigator and explorer (b. c. 1441)
- Tupac Inca Yupanqui, Inca ruler of Tahuantinsuyu

1494

January 11 – Domenico Ghirlandaio, Italian artist (b. 1449)^[69]
January 20 – Seongjong of Joseon, King of Joseon (b. 1457)
January 25 – King Ferdinand I of Naples (b. 1423)
May 7 – Eskender, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1471)
August 1 – Giovanni Santi, Italian artist and father of Raphael (b. c. 1435)
August 11 – Hans Memling, Flemish painter (b. c. 1430)
September 24 – Poliziano, Italian humanist (b. 1454)
October 21 – Gian Galeazzo Sforza, Duke of Milan (b. 1469)
October 26 – Amda Seyon II, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. c. 1487)
November 8 – Melozzo da Forlì, Italian painter (b. c. 1438)
November 15 – William Calthorpe, English knight (b. 1410)
November 16 – Theda Ukena, countess regent of East Frisia (b. 1432)
November 17 – Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian humanist (b. 1463)^[70]
December 19 or December 20 – Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet (b. c. 1434-1441)

1495

January 11 – Pedro González de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman (b. 1428)
January 21 – Magdalena of France, French princess and regent of Navarre (b. 1443)
February 25 – Sultan Cem, pretender to the Ottoman throne (b. 1459)
May 31 – Cecily Neville, English duchess, mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (b. 1415)
September – Vlad Călugărul, Wallachian half-brother of Vlad III (The Impaler)
September 14 – Elizabeth Tudor, English princess, daughter of Henry VII of England (b. 1492)
October 25 – King John II of Portugal (b. 1455)^[71]
October 30 – Francis, Count of Vendome (b. 1470)
December 16 – Charles Orlando, Dauphin of France, French noble (b. 1492)
December 18 – King Alphonso II of Naples (b. 1448)
December 21 – Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford (b. c. 1431)

1496

January 1 – Charles, Count of Angoulême (b. 1459)
February 24 – Eberhard I, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1445)
March 4 – Sigismund, Archduke of Austria (b. 1427)
March 12 – Johann Heynlin, German humanist scholar (b. c. 1425)
April 16 – Charles II, Duke of Savoy (b. 1489)
April 29 – Fernando de Almada, 2nd Count of Avranches (b. c. 1430)
August 15 – Infanta Isabella of Portugal, Queen of Castile and León (b. 1428)
August 28 – Kanutus Johannis, Swedish Franciscan friar, writer and book collector
September 7 – King Ferdinand II of Naples (b. 1469)
September 15 – Hugh Clopton, Lord Mayor of London (b. c. 1440)
September 25 – Piero Capponi, Italian soldier and statesman (b. 1447)
September 28 – Boček IV of Poděbrady, Bohemian nobleman, eldest son of King George of Podebrady (b. 1442)
October 15 – Gilbert, Count of Montpensier (b. 1443)
November 1 – Filippo Buonaccorsi (Filip Callimachus), Italian humanist writer (b. 1437)
date unknown
- Richard Bell, Bishop of Carlisle
- Alexander Inglis, Scottish clergyman
- Pietro di Francesco degli Orioli, Italian sculptor (b. c. 1458)
- Piero del Pollaiuolo, Italian painter (b. 1443)
- Qaitbay, sultan of Egypt
- Ercole de' Roberti, Italian artist (b. c. 1451)
probable – Jan IV of Oświęcim, duke of Oświęcim

1497

January 3 – Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan (b. 1475)^[72]
January 30 – Lê Thánh Tông, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1442)
February 6 – Johannes Ockeghem, Flemish composer (b. c. 1410)
May 26 – Antonio Manetti, Italian mathematician and architect (b. 1423)
June 14 – Giovanni Borgia, 2nd Duke of Gandía (assassinated) (b.1474)
June 27
- Michael An Gof, Cornish rebel leader (executed)
- Thomas Flamank, Cornish rebel leader (executed)
June 28 – James Tuchet, 7th Baron Audley (b. c. 1463)
July – Estêvão da Gama, Portuguese explorer ( b. c. 1430)
July 23 – Barbara Fugger, German banker (b. 1419)
August 24 – Sophie of Pomerania, Duchess of Pomerania (b. 1435)
October 4 – John, Prince of Asturias, only son of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile (b. 1478)
November 7 – Philip II, Duke of Savoy (b. 1443)
November 30 – Anna Sforza, Italian noble (b. 1476)
date unknown
- Al-Mutawakkil II, Caliph of Cairo
- Al-Sakhawi, Egyptian scholar (b. 1428)
- Albert Brudzewski, Polish astronomer (b. 1445)
- Gentile de' Becchi, Bishop of Arezzo (b. 1420/1430)
probable – Elia del Medigo, Italian philosopher (b. 1460)

1498

February 4 – Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Italian painter (b. c. 1432)
April 7 – King Charles VIII of France (b. 1470)^[73]
May 23 – Girolamo Savonarola, Italian religious reformer and ruler of Florence (b. 1452; executed)^[74]
June 7 – Anđeo Zvizdović, Bosnian Franciscan friar and evangelist (b. c. 1420)
July 14 – Gentile Budrioli, Italian astrologer and herbalist
August 17 – John Scrope, 5th Baron Scrope of Bolton, English baron (b. 1437)
August 23 – Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, eldest daughter of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon (b. 1470)^[75]
September 14 – Giovanni il Popolano, Italian diplomat (b. 1467)
September 16 – Tomás de Torquemada, Spanish Dominican friar and first Grand Inquisitor (b. 1420)^[76]
December 7 – Alexander Hegius von Heek, German humanist (b. c. 1443)^[77]
December 19 – Jeanne de Laval, French noble (b. 1433)
date unknown
- Tun Perak, Malay general and statesman
- Domenico Rosselli, Italian sculptor (b. c. 1439)
probable – Johannes Martini, Flemish composer (b. c. 1440)

1499

January 9 – John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1455)
March 24 – Edward Stafford, 2nd Earl of Wiltshire, English nobleman (b. 1470)
April 7 – Galeotto I Pico, Duke of Mirandola (b. 1442)
August 29 – Alesso Baldovinetti, Florentine painter (b. 1427)
October 1 – Marsilio Ficino, Italian philosopher (b. 1433)
November 23 – Perkin Warbeck, Flemish imposter (b. c. 1474) (executed)
November 28 – Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick, last male member of the English House of York (b. 1475)
date unknown
- Rennyo, leader of the Ikko sect of Buddhism (b. 1415)
- Muhammad Rumfa, ruler of Kano
- Laura Cereta, Italian humanist and feminist (b. 1469)

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