(d. 1555) Giovanna d'Aragona, Duchess of Amalfi, Italian regent (d. 1510) Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (d. 1553) Visconte Maggiolo, Italian navigator and cartographer (d. 1530) Katharina von Zimmern, Swiss sovereign abbess (d. 1547) probable Thomas Ashwell, English composer Madeleine Lartessuti, French shipper and banker (d. 1543) Deaths February 1 – Cristoforo della Rovere, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1434) February 18 – George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, brother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (executed) (b. 1449) April 26 – Giuliano de' Medici, son of Piero di Cosimo de' Medici (assassinated) (b. 1453) June 12 – Ludovico III Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua (b. 1412) August 23 – Yolande of Valois, Duchess consort of Savoy (b. 1434) August 28 – Donato Acciaioli, Italian scholar (b. 1428) November 8 – Emperor Baeda Maryam I of Ethiopia (b. 1448) date unknown – Aliodea Morosini, Venetian dogaressa References