England rebuilds it as Richmond Palace. Date unknown Babur takes Samarkand at the age of fifteen after a seven-month siege. He will hold the city for 100 days. Ivan the Great issues his law code, the Sudebnik. The Ottomans give Russian merchants freedom of trade within the empire. Iamblichus De mysteriis Aegyptorum edited by Marsilio Ficino is published. The Annals of the Four Masters refer to a famine in Ireland which "prevailed through all Ireland". Births February 16 – Philip Melanchthon, German humanist and reformer (d. 1560) 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) Anne Seymour, Duchess of Somerset, English noblewoman (d. 1587) 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) Deaths January 3 – Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan (b. 1475) 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)