Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)
Feb 19 Polish mathematician and astronomer who theorized that planets revolve around the sun (Heliocentric theory), born in Toruń, Royal Prussia, Kingdom of Poland
- Mar 16 Henry IV the Pious, Duke of Saxony (d. 1541)
James IV (1473-1513)
Mar 17 King of Scotland (1488-1513), born in Stirling Castle, Stirling, Scotland
- Aug 14 Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury, daughter of George, Duke of Clarence, born in Farleigh Hungerford Castle, Somerset, England (d. 1541)
- Aug 17 Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, son of King Edward IV, one of the princes in the tower who disappeared (d. 1483?)
- Oct 26 Duke Friedrich of Saxony, 36th Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (1498-1510), born in Torgau, Germany (d. 1510)
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