Scottish prince (d. 1510) November 4 – John, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels, Polish-German nobleman (d. 1565) Date unknown Anneke Esaiasdochter, Dutch Anabaptist (d. 1539) Bernardino Telesio, Italian philosopher and natural scientist (d. 1588) Élie Vinet, French humanist (d. 1587) François de Scépeaux, French governor (d. 1571) François Douaren, French jurist (d. 1559) Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, Spanish conquistador (d. 1579) Guillaume Le Testu, French privateer (d. 1573) John Erskine of Dun, Scottish religious reformer (d. 1591) Naoe Kagetsuna, Japanese Clan Officer (d. 1577) Stanisław Odrowąż, Polish nobleman (d. 1545) Deaths January – Adam Kraft, German sculptor and architect (b. circa 1460) January 27 – John I, Count Palatine of Simmern, German nobleman (b. 1459) March 14 – Giovanni Antonio Sangiorgio, Italian cardinal (b. unknown) April 21 – Henry VII of England, King of England and Lord of Ireland (b. 1457) April 27 – Margaret of Brandenburg, German abbess of the Poor Clares monastery at Hof (b. 1453) May 28 – Caterina Sforza, Italian countess of Forlì (b. 1463) June 29 – Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby, mother of Henry VII of England (b. 1443) July 11 – William II, Landgrave of Hesse, German nobleman (b. 1469) July 16: Joao da Nova, Portuguese explorer (b. 1460) Mikalojus Radvila the Old, Lithuanian nobleman (b. circa 1450) July 28 – Ignatius Noah of Lebanon, Syriac Orthodox patriarch of Antioch (b. 1451). December 1 – Lê Uy Mục, 8th king of the later Lê Dynasty of Vietnam (b. 1488) Date unknown Dmitry Ivanovich, Russian Grand Prince (b. 1483) Eleanor de Poitiers, Burgundian courter and writer (b. circa 1444) Hans Seyffer, German sculptor and woodcarver (b. circa 1460) Shen Zhou, Chinese painter (b. 1427) Viranarasimha Raya, Indian ruler of the Vijayanagar Empire (b. unknown) References Sources