Feb 18 Fra Angelico, Italian monk and early Renaissance painter (San Marco friary), dies at about 59 Mar 24 Nicholas V [Tommaso Parentucelli], Italian Pope (1447-55), dies at 57 Mar 24 Rudolf van Diepholt, bishop/cardinal of Utrecht (1448-55), dies May 22 Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, English commander (killed in battle) (b. 1406) May 22 Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (killed in battle) Dec 1 Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian sculptor (Gates of Paradise), dies at 77 1454 Famous Deaths by Year 1456 Famous People by Cause of Death Assassination Car Crash Hanging Killed in Action Plane Crash Poisoning
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