– died after 1525), Italian, Latin-language poet 1481: 1482: Andrzej Krzycki (died 1532), Polish archbishop, Latin prose writer and Polish-language poet often considered one of Poland's greatest humanist writers Bernardim Ribeiro (died 1552), Portuguese Matthias Ringmann (died 1511), German cartographer and humanist poet Antonio Tilesio (died 1534), Italian, Latin-language poet Mavro Vetranović (died 1576), Croatian writer, poet and Benedictine friar 1483: November 10 – Martin Luther (died 1546), German Protestant leader and hymn-writer Benet Burgh (birth year unknown), English translator Fuzûlî (فضولی) (died c. 1556), Ottoman Empire Aurelio Casellio (died 1552), Italian, Latin-language poet Andrea Navagero (died 1483–1529), Italian, Latin-language poet 1484: Jón Arason (died 1550), Icelandic Roman Catholic bishop and poet Purandara Dasa (died 1564), Hindu composer of Carnatic music and Kannada poetry Niklaus Manuel (died 1530), Swiss, German-language poet Giulio Cesare Scaligero, (died 1558), Italian, Latin-language poet Paul Speratus (died 1581), German Huldrych Zwingli (died 1531), Swiss theologian, priest, poet, and writer 1485: November 30 – Veronica Gambara (died 1550), Italian poet, stateswoman and political leader born in Lombardy Hanibal Lucić (died 1553), Croatian poet and playwright Nikolaus Decius (died sometime after 1546), German Marco Girolamo Vida born about this year (died 1566), Italian, Latin-language poet 1486: Pedro Manuel Jiménez de Urrea, (died 1535), Spanish Renaissance poet and playwright 1487: Petar Hektorović (died 1572), Croatian writer, poet and collector 1488: January 6 – Helius Eobanus Hessus (died 1540), German, Latin poet Ulrich von Hutten (died 1523), German Michael Weiße (died 1534), German theologian and hymn writer Yang Shen (died 1559), Chinese poet 1489: Francesco Maria Molza (died 1544), Italian, Latin-language poet Thomas Müntzer (died 1525), German Rupa Goswami (died 1564), Hindu devotional teacher, poet, and philosopher Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: 1480: December 14 – Niccolò Perotti, also known as "Perotto" or "Nicolaus Perottus" (born 1430, according to some sources, or 1429, according to others, or either year, according to still others) Italian humanist, translator, author of one of the first modern Latin school grammars, and Latin-language poet Giovanni Mario Filelfo (born 1426), Italian, Latin-language poet Probable date – Ieuan ap Hywel Swrdwal (born 1430), Welsh poet writing in English, the first known to do so Approximate date – Raffaele Zovenzoni (born 1431), Italian, Latin-language poet 1481: Ikkyū (born 1394), eccentric, iconoclastic Japanese Zen Buddhist priest and poet Approximate date – Narsinh Mehta, alternate spelling: Narasingh Mehta (born c. 1414), Indian, Gujarati-language