abbess and spy (d. 1538) Svante Nilsson, regent of Sweden (d. 1512) Ana de Mendonça, Spanish courtier (d. 1542) Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley, English nobleman (d. 1532) probable Antoine Brumel, Flemish composer (d. 1515) Tristão da Cunha, Portuguese explorer (d. 1540) Katarzyna Weiglowa, Jewish martyr (d. 1539) Gwerful Mechain, Welsh erotic poet (d. 1502) Konstanty Ostrogski, Grand Hetman of Lithuania (d. 1530) Tilman Riemenschneider, German sculptor (d. 1531) Arnolt Schlick, German organist and composer (d. after 1521) Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester, English nobleman (d. 1526) Rodrigo de Bastidas, Spanish conquistador (d. 1527) Ponce de Leon, Spanish conquistador Deaths February 29 – Albert III, Duke of Bavaria-Munich (b. 1401) July 10 Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English military leader (b. 1402) John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury (b. c. 1413) Thomas Percy, 1st Baron Egremont, English baron (b. 1422) July 19 – Lord Scales, English commander (b. 1397) August 3 – King James II of Scotland (b. 1430) September 20 – Gilles Binchois, Flemish composer (b. c. 1400) September 25 – Katharina of Hanau, German countess regent (b. 1408) November 13 – Prince Henry the Navigator, Portuguese patron of exploration (b. 1394) December 14 – Guarino da Verona, Italian humanist (b. 1370) December 30 Edmund, Earl of Rutland, brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (b. 1443) Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York, claimant to the English throne (in battle) (b. 1411) December 31 – Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, English politician (executed) (b. 1400) date unknown Francesco II Acciaioli, last Duke of Athens (murdered by consent) Israel Isserlein, Austrian Jewish scholar (b. 1390) Reginald Pecock, deposed Welsh bishop and writer (b. c. 1392) References