1460s

1460

• Charles I (the Bold) (1433–1477), Duke of Burgundy, r. 1467–1477
• Jean Fouquet of France (1420–1481), painter
• Francis II (1433–1488), Duke of Brittany, r. 1458–1488
• Gendun Drup of Tibet (1391–1474), First Dalai Lama
• Diogo Gomes of Portugal (1420–1485), navigator, explorer and writer
• Johannes Gutenberg of Mainz (1395?–1468), printer and inventor of the movable type printing press
• Henry the Navigator of Portugal (1394–1460), Portuguese prince and patron of exploration
• William Herbert of Wales (1423–1469), Pro-York nobleman
• Sir Thomas Malory of England (1405?–1471), soldier, member of Parliament, political prisoner, and author of Le Morte d'Arthur
• Richard Neville of England (1428–1471), nobleman, administrator, and military commander
• Demetrios Palaiologos of Morea (1407–1470), Byzantine Prince and Despot of Morea
• Thomas Palaiologos of Morea (1409–1465), Byzantine Prince and Despot of Morea
• Philip III (the Good) (1396–1467), Duke of Burgundy, r. 1419–1467
• Richard Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester (1452–1483), English Prince, Yorkist commander, and future King of England
• Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York of England (1411-1460), nobleman, military commander, and Yorkist claimant to the Throne of England
• Mar Shimun IV, Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East (Patriarchate then based in Mosul), held position 1437–1497
• Tlacaelel (1397-1487), Tlacochcalcatl of the Aztec Empire
• Jasper Tudor of Wales (c.1431–1495), nobleman and adventurer
• Owen Tudor of Wales (c.1400–1461), soldier and courtier at the court of the English Kings
• Andrea del Verrocchio of Florence (1435–1488), painter, sculptor, and goldsmith

1460

• May 8 – Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (d. 1536)
• June 1 – Enno I, Count of East Frisia (1466–1491) (d. 1491)
• September 29 – Louis II de la Trémoille, French military leader (d. 1525)
• date unknown
  • Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer (d. 1524)
  • Isabella Hoppringle, Scottish 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

1461

• February 6 – Džore Držić, Croatian poet and playwright (d. 1501)
• February 19 – Domenico Grimani, Italian nobleman (d. 1523)
• March 11 – Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, 3rd Duke of the Infantado, Spanish noble (d. 1531)^[25]
• April 3 – Anne of France, French princess regent, eldest daughter of Louis XI of France and Charlotte of Savoy (d. 1522)
• May 3 – Raffaele Riario, Italian cardinal (d. 1521)
• May 25 – Zanobi Acciaioli, librarian of the Vatican (d. 1519)
• August 5 – Alexander Jagiellon, King of Poland (d. 1506)^[26]
• September 15 – Jacopo Salviati, Italian politician and son-in-law of Lorenzo de' Medici (d. 1533)
• October 1 – Amalie of Brandenburg, Countess Palatine and Duchess of Zweibruecken and Veldenz (d. 1481)
• December 28 – Louise of Savoy, Nun (d. 1503)
• date unknown
  • Alessandro Alessandri, Italian jurist (d. 1523)
  • Bohuslav Hasištejnský z Lobkovic, Bohemian nobleman (d. 1510)
  • Nicholas West, English bishop and diplomat (d. 1533)

1462

• January 2 – Piero di Cosimo, Italian artist (d. 1522)^[27]
• January 8 – Walraven II van Brederode, Dutch noble (d. 1531)
• February 1 – Johannes Trithemius, German scholar and cryptographer (d. 1516)
• February 21 – Joanna la Beltraneja, princess of Castile (d. 1530)
• May 19 – Baccio D'Agnolo, Italian woodcarver, sculptor and architect (d. 1543)
• May 31 – Philipp II, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1489–1503) (d. 1504)
• June 27 – Louis XII of France, King of France (1498–1515), King of Naples (1501–1504) (d. 1515)^[28]
• July 21 – Queen Jeonghyeon, Korean royal consort (d. 1530)
• September 8 – Henry Medwall, first known English vernacular dramatist (d. 1501)^[29]
• September 16 – Pietro Pomponazzi, Italian philosopher (d. 1525)
• September 26 – Engelbert, Count of Nevers, younger son of John I (d. 1506)
• November 26 – Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken and Count of Veldenz (1489–1514) (d. 1514)
• date unknown
  • Jodocus Badius, Flemish printer (d. 1535)
• probable – Edmund Dudley, minister of Henry VII of England (d. 1510)

1463

• January 17
  • Antoine Duprat, French cardinal (d. 1535)
  • Frederick III, Elector of Saxony (d. 1525)
• February 24 – Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher (d. 1494)^[30]
• June 14 – Henry IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, German noble (d. 1514)
• August 4 – Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici, Florentine patron of the arts (d. 1503)
• September 29 – Louis I, Count of Löwenstein and founder of the House of Löwenstein-Wertheim (d. 1523)
• October 20 or October 29 – Alessandro Achillini, Bolognese philosopher (d. 1512)^[31]
• November 29 – Andrea della Valle, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1534)
• December 25 – Johann of Schwarzenberg, German judge and poet (d. 1528)
• date unknown – Caterina Sforza, countess and regent of Forli (d. 1509)^[32]

1464

• April 23
  • Robert Fayrfax, English Renaissance composer (d. 1521)
  • Joan of France, Duchess of Berry (d. 1505)
• May 6 – Sophia Jagiellon, Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Polish princess (d. 1512)
• May 30 – Barbara of Brandenburg, Bohemian queen (d. 1515)
• June 27 – Ernst II of Saxony, Archbishop of Magdeburg (1476–1513) and Administrator of Halberstadt (1480–1513) (d. 1513)
• July 1 – Clara Gonzaga, Italian noble (d. 1503)
• November 19 – Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (d. 1526)
• date unknown
  • Nezahualpilli, Aztec ruler (d. 1515)
  • Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitallers (d. 1534)

1465

• January 1 – Lachlan Cattanach Maclean, 11th Chief, Scottish clan chief (d. 1523)
• February 4 – Frans van Brederode, Dutch rebel (d. 1490)
• February 6 – Scipione del Ferro, Italian mathematician (d. 1526)^[33]
• March 16 – Kunigunde of Austria, Archduchess of Austria (d. 1520)
• June 10 – Mercurino Gattinara, Italian statesman and jurist (d. 1530)
• June 24 – Isabella del Balzo, queen consort of Naples (d. 1533)
• July 29 – Ichijō Fuyuyoshi, Japanese court noble (d. 1514)
• August 17 – Philibert I, Duke of Savoy (d. 1482)
• September 11 – Bernardo Accolti, Italian poet (d. 1536)
• October 14 – Konrad Peutinger, German humanist and antiquarian (d. 1547)
• December 11 – Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shōgun (d. 1489)
• date unknown
  • Şehzade Ahmet, oldest son of Sultan Bayezid II (d. 1513)
  • Hector Boece, Scottish historian (d. 1536)^[34]
  • William Cornysh, English composer (d. 1523)
  • George Neville, Duke of Bedford, English nobleman (d. 1483)
  • Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, Spanish conquistador (d. 1524)
• probable
  • Gil Vicente, Portuguese poet and playwright
  • Francisco Álvares, Portuguese missionary and explorer (d. 1541))
  • Mette Dyre, Danish noblewoman, nominal sheriff and chancellor
  • Johann Tetzel, German Dominican priest (d. 1519)^[35]

1466

• February 11 – Elizabeth of York, queen of Henry VII of England (d. 1503)^[36]
• May – Elisabeth of Hesse-Marburg, German landgravine (d. 1523)^[37][38]
• May 22 – Marino Sanuto the Younger, Italian historian (d. 1536)
• June 18 – Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian music printer (d. 1539)
• July 5 – Giovanni Sforza, Italian noble (d. 1510)
• August 10 – Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua (d. 1519)
• September 9 – Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shōgun (d. 1523)
• October 28 – Erasmus, Dutch philosopher (d. 1536)^[39]
• November 16 – Francesco Cattani da Diacceto, Florentine philosopher (d. 1522)
• November 26 – Edward Hastings, 2nd Baron Hastings, English noble (d. 1506)
• November 30 – Andrea Doria, Genoese condottiero and admiral (d. 1560)^[40]
• Probable – Moctezuma II, Aztec Tlatoani (ruler) of Tenochtitlán (modern Mexico City), 1502–1520, son of Axayacatl (d. 1520)^[41]

1467

• January – John Colet, English churchman and educational pioneer (d. 1519)
• January 1
  • Philip of Cleves, Bishop of Nevers, Amiens, Autun (d. 1505)
  • Sigismund I the Old, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (d. 1548)
• January 4
  • Henry the Younger of Stolberg, Stadtholder of Friesland (1506–1508) (d. 1508)
  • Bodo VIII, Count of Stolberg-Wernigerode (1511–1538) (d. 1538)
• January 26 – Guillaume Budé, French scholar (d. 1540)
• February 2 – Columba of Rieti, Italian Dominican tertiary Religious Sister (d. 1501)
• March 19 – Bartolomeo della Rocca, Italian scholar (d. 1504)
• March 21 – Caritas Pirckheimer, German nun (d. 1532)
• May 8 – Adalbert of Saxony, Administrator of Mainz (1482–1484) (d. 1484)
• May 31 – Sibylle of Brandenburg, Duchess of Jülich and Berg (d. 1524)
• August 11 – Mary of York, daughter of King Edward IV of England (d. 1482)
• August 25 – Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 2nd Duke of Alburquerque, Spanish duke (d. 1526)
• October 21 – Giovanni il Popolano, Italian diplomat (d. 1498)
• November 9
  • Charles II, Duke of Guelders, Count of Zutphen from 1492 (d. 1538)
  • Philippa of Guelders, twin sister of Charles, Duke of Guelders, Duchess consort of Lorraine (d. 1547)
• November 25 – Thomas Dacre, 2nd Baron Dacre, Knight of Henry VIII of England (d. 1525)
• date unknown
  • John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, English translator (d. 1553)
  • Krzysztof Szydłowiecki, Polish nobleman (d. 1532)
  • John Yonge, English ecclesiastic and diplomatist (d. 1516)
• probable – William Latimer, English churchman and scholar (d. 1545)

1468

• February 29 – Pope Paul III (d. 1549)^[42]
• March 28 – Charles I, Duke of Savoy (d. 1490)
• April 27 – Frederick Jagiellon, Primate of Poland (d. 1503)
• May 31 – Philip, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, German prince (d. 1500)
• June 30 – John, Elector of Saxony (1525–1532) (d. 1532)^[43]
• July 24 – Catherine of Saxony, Archduchess of Austria (d. 1524)
• August 3 – Albert I, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels, Count of Kladsko (d. 1511)
• August 26 – Bernardo de' Rossi, Italian bishop (d. 1527)
• December 21 – William Conyers, 1st Baron Conyers, English baron (d. 1524)
• date unknown
  • Marino Ascanio Caracciolo, Italian cardinal (d. 1538)
  • Mir Chakar Khan Rind, Baloch chieftain (d. 1565)
  • Juan de Zumárraga, Spanish Franciscan prelate and first bishop of Mexico (d. 1548)
• probable – Alonso de Ojeda, Spanish conquistador and explorer (d. 1515)

1469

• February 13 – Elia Levita, Renaissance Hebrew grammarian (d. 1549)
• February 20 – Thomas Cajetan, Italian philosopher (d. 1534)
• March 20 – Cecily of York, English princess (d. 1507)
• November 29 – Guru Nanak, Sikh guru (d. 1539)^[44]
• April 29 – William II, Landgrave of Hesse (d. 1509)
• May 3 – Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and political author (d. 1527)^[45]
• May 31 – King Manuel I of Portugal (d. 1521)
• June 20 – Gian Galeazzo Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1494)
• August 4 – Margaret of Saxony, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1528)
• August 26 – King Ferdinand II of Naples (d. 1496)
• date unknown
  • John III of Navarre (d. 1516)
  • Silvio Passerini, Italian politician (d. 1529)
  • Laura Cereta, Italian humanist and feminist (d. 1499)
• probable – Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer (d. 1524)

1460

• 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)^[46]
• 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)^[47]
• 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)

1461

• February 2 – Owen Tudor, Welsh founder of the Tudor dynasty (executed)
• March 28 – John Clifford, 9th Baron de Clifford (in battle)
• March 29
  • Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland (in battle) (b. 1421)
  • Lionel de Welles, 6th Baron Welles
• April 8 – Georg von Peuerbach, Austrian astronomer (b. 1423)
• May 15 – Domenico Veneziano, Italian painter (b. c. 1410)
• July 22 – King Charles VII of France (b. 1403)^[48]
• September 21 – Sophia of Halshany, queen consort of Poland (b. 1405)
• September 23 – Charles, Prince of Viana, King of Navarre (b. 1421)
• October 7 – Jean Poton de Xaintrailles, follower of Joan of Arc (b. c. 1390)
• November 6 – John de Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (b. 1415)
• probable – Jonah, Metropolitan of Moscow

1462

• February 23 – Thomas Tuddenham, English landowner (b. 1401)
• February 26 – John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford (b. 1408)^[49]
• February 27 – Władysław II of Płock, Polish noble (b. 1448)
• March 27 – Vasily II of Moscow, Grand Prince of Moscow (b. 1415)
• March 31 – Isidore II of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
• April 26 – William Percy, medieval Bishop of Carlisle (b. 1428)
• April 28 – Oldřich II of Rosenberg, Bohemian nobleman (b. 1403)
• August 26 – Catherine Zaccaria, Despotess of the Morea
• September 17 – Anna of Saxony, Landgravine of Hesse, German royalty (b. 1420)
• November 11 – Anne of Cyprus, Italian noble (b. 1418)
• November 13 – Anne of Austria, Landgravine of Thuringia, consort of William III, Landgrave of Thuringia (b. 1432)
• November 25 – John Stourton, 1st Baron Stourton, English baron (b. 1400)
• date unknown
  • King Esen Buqa II of Moghulistan
  • Niccolò Gattilusio, last Prince of Lesbos
  • Dài Jìn, Chinese painter (b. 1388)

1463

• March 9 – Catherine of Bologna, Italian Roman Catholic nun and saint (b. 1413)^[50]
• May 25 – King Stephen Tomašević of Bosnia (beheaded)
• June 4 – Flavio Biondo, Italian humanist (b. 1392)
• June 17 – Infanta Catherine of Portugal, religious sister (b. 1436)
• September 23 – Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medici, Italian noble (b. 1421)
• November 1 – Emperor David of Trebizond (b. c. 1408)
• November 15 – Giovanni Antonio Del Balzo Orsini, Prince of Taranto and Constable of Naples (b. 1393)
• November 18 – John IV, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1437)
• November 29 – Marie of Anjou, queen of France, spouse of Charles VII of France (b. 1404)^[51]
• December 2 – Albert VI, Archduke of Austria (b. 1418)
• December 16 – Sir Philip Courtenay, British noble (b. 1404)
• date unknown
  • Jacob Gaón, Jewish Basque tax collector (beheaded by the mob)
  • Ponhea Yat, last king of the Khmer Empire and first king of Cambodia (b. 1394)

1464

• January – Desiderio da Settignano, Italian sculptor (b. c. 1428 or 1430)
• February 23 – Zhengtong Emperor of China (b. 1427)
• March 8 – Catherine of Poděbrady, Hungarian queen consort (b. 1449)
• May 15 – Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset (executed) (b. 1436)
• May 17 – Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English politician (executed) (b. 1427)
• May 25 – Charles I, Count of Nevers (b. 1414)
• June 18 – Rogier van der Weyden, Flemish painter (b. 1399 or 1400)
• August 1 – Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1389)
• August 11 – Nicholas of Cusa, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1401)
• August 12 – John Capgrave, English historian and theologian (b. 1393)
• August 14 – Pope Pius II (b. 1405)^[13]
• September 7 – Otto III, Duke of Pomerania-Stettin (1460–1464) (b. 1444)
• September 23 – Bernardo Rossellino, Italian sculptor and architect (b. 1409)
• September 26 – Benedetto Accolti the Elder, Italian jurist and historian (b. 1415)
• November 16 – John, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (b. 1406)
• November 23 – Blessed Margaret of Savoy (b. 1382 or 1390)
• December 2 – Blanche II of Navarre (b. 1424)
• date unknown – Fra Mauro, Venetian Camaldolese monk, cartographer and accountant (b. c. 1400)

1465

• January 5 – Charles, Duke of Orléans, French poet (b. 1394)^[52]
• January 14 – Thomas Beckington, English statesman and prelate
• January 29 – Louis, Duke of Savoy (b. 1413)
• March 30 – Isabella of Clermont, queen consort of Naples (b. c. 1424)
• April 30 – Jacob of Juterbogk, German theologian (b. c. 1381)
• May 12 – Thomas Palaiologos, claimant to Byzantine throne (b. 1409)^[53]
• August 11 – Kettil Karlsson, regent of Sweden and Bishop of Linköping (plague; b. 1433)
• August 14 – Abd al-Haqq II, last Marinid Sultan of Morocco (b.1419)
• September 25 – Isabella of Bourbon, countess consort of Charolais, spouse of Charles the Bold (b. c. 1434)
• November 20 – Malatesta Novello, Italian condottiero (b. 1418)
• date unknown – John Hardyng, English chronicler (b. 1378)

1466

• February 23 – Girishawardhana Dyah Suryawikrama, 9th Maharaja of Majapahit
• March 6 – Alvise Loredan, Venetian admiral and statesman (b. 1393)
• March 8 – Francesco I Sforza, Duke of Milan (b. 1401)^[54]
• August – Hacı I Giray, first ruler of the Crimean Khanate (b. 1397)
• October 30 – Johann Fust, German printer (b. c. 1400)
• December 13 – Donatello, Italian artist (b. 1386)^[55]
• Date unknown
  • Barbara Manfredi, Italian noblewoman (b. 1444)
  • Isotta Nogarola, Italian writer and intellectual (b. 1418)^[56]
  • Nicolaus Zacharie, Italian composer (b. c. 1400)

1467

• March 13 – Vettore Cappello, Venetian statesman
• March 29 – Matthew Palaiologos Asen, Byzantine aristocrat and official
• April 20 – Dorotea Gonzaga, Italian noble (b. 1449)
• April 30 – John, Count of Angoulême (b. 1399)
• June 15 – Philip III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1396)
• September 3 – Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress (b. 1434)
• December 12 – Jošt of Rožmberk, Bishop of Breslau, Grand Prior of the Order of St. John (b. 1430)
• December 15 – Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna, archbishop and Regent of Sweden (b. 1417)
• date unknown
  • Maria of Tver, Grand Princess consort of Muscovy, spouse of Ivan III of Russia (b. 1447)
  • Peter III Aaron, prince of Moldavia
  • Jahan Shah, leader of Turkmen
  • Khan Xälil of Kazan

1468

• February 3 – Johannes Gutenberg, inventor of printing press with replaceable letters (b. c.1398)^[57]
• March 12 – Astorre II Manfredi, Italian noble (b. 1412)
• September 23 – Sejo of Joseon, King of Joseon (b. 1417)
• June 10 – Idris Imad al-Din, supreme leader of Tayyibi Isma'ilism, scholar and historian (b. 1392)^[58]
• June 14 – Margaret Beauchamp, countess of Shrewsbury
• June 30 – Lady Eleanor Talbot, English noblewoman
• July 5 – Alfonso, Prince of Asturias (b. 1453)
• September 26 – Juan de Torquemada, Spanish Catholic cardinal (b. 1388)^[59]
• October 7 – Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, lord of Rimini (b. 1417)
• October 28 – Bianca Maria Visconti, Duchess of Milan (b. 1425)
• November 24 – Jean de Dunois, French soldier (b. 1402)
• December 6 – Zanobi Strozzi, Italian painter (b. 1412)
• date unknown
  • Joanot Martorell, Spanish writer (b. 1419)^[60]
  • Francesco Squarcione, Italian artist (b. ca. 1395)
  • Zara Yaqob, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1399)
  • Pomellina Fregoso, Monegaque regent (b. 1388

1469

• May 30 – Lope de Barrientos, powerful Castilian bishop and statesman (b. 1382)
• August 12 – Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers (executed) (b. 1405)
• September 25 – Margaret of Brittany, Breton duchess consort (b. 1443)
• October 8/10 – Filippo Lippi, Italian artist (b. 1406)^[61]
• December 2 – Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1416)
• December 31 – King Yejong of Joseon (b. 1450)
• date unknown
  • Abu Sa'id Mirza, ruler of Persia and Afghanistan (b. 1424)
  • Niccolò Da Conti, Italian merchant and explorer (b. 1395)
  • Andrew Gray, 1st Lord Gray (b. c. 1390)
  • Moctezuma I, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan, son of Huitzilihuitl (b. 1390)^[62]