the reign of the Hongwu Emperor. The census counts 59,873,305 people living in China in this year. This depicts a drastic drop in population since the Song dynasty, which counted 100 million people at its height in the early 12th century. A modern historian states that the Ming census is inaccurate, as China at around this time has at least 65,000,000 inhabitants, if not 75,000,000. Births January 13 – Colette of Corbie, French abbess and saint in the Catholic Church (d. 1447) October 13 – Thomas FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1415) date unknown Anna of Celje, Queen consort of Poland (d. 1416) Johann Schiltberger, German traveller and writer (d. 1440) John I, Duke of Bourbon (d. 1434) Saint Rita of Cascia (d. 1457) Itzcóatl, fourth Tlatoani for the Mexica Empire (d. 1440) Deaths March 24 – Catherine of Vadstena, Swedish saint (b. 1331 or 1332) May 15 – Eppelein von Gailingen, German robber baron June 14 – Simon Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury (murdered) June 15 John Cavendish, Lord Chief Justice of England (murdered) Wat Tyler, English rebel (murdered) July 15 – John Ball, renegade priest (executed) December 2 – John of Ruysbroeck, Flemish mystic December 27 – Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March, English politician References