French poet and culture patron (d. 1532) Ming the clam, longest living ocean quahog was born (d. 2006) Deaths January–June February 17 – William III, Landgrave of Hesse (b. 1471) April 10 – Michael Tarchaniota Marullus, Greek scholar, poet and soldier (b. c. 1453) April 12 – Leonhard of Gorizia, Count of Gorz (b. 1440) May 29 Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese explorer (b. c. 1450) Thomas Rotherham, English cleric and minister (b. 1423) June 19 – Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset, English nobleman (b. 1499) June 23 – Lodovico Lazzarelli, Italian poet (b. 1447) July–December July 14 – Íñigo López de Mendoza y Luna, 2nd Duke of the Infantado, Spanish noble (b. 1438) July 19 – Miguel da Paz, Prince of Portugal (b. 1498) August 18 – Alfonso of Aragon, prince (b. 1481) August 26 – Philipp I, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg, German noble (b. 1449) August 30 – Victor, Duke of Münsterberg and Opava, Count of Glatz (b. 1443) September 12 – Albert III, Duke of Saxony (b. 1443) September 15 – John Morton, English Archbishop of Canterbury (b. c. 1420) October 1 – John Alcock, English Bishop of Ely (b. c. 1430) October 21 – Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (b. 1442) November 13 – Philip, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, German prince (b. 1468) date unknown – Antonia of Savoy, Lady Consort of Monaco Probable Juan Pérez de Gijón, Spanish composer (b. 1460) Stefano Infessura, Italian humanist writer (b. c. 1435) Fyodor Kuritsyn, Russian statesman, philosopher and poet Nyai Gede Pinateh, Javanese merchant (b. c. 1450) References