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1481

Famous People Who Died in 1481

Jan 6 Akhmat Khan, Khan of the Golden Horde (1465-1481)

Mehmed the Conqueror (1432-1481)

May 3 Ottoman Sultan (1444-45 and 1451-81) who conquered Constantinople, dies possibly from poison at 49

Mehmed the Conqueror

May 21 Christian I, king of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, dies at 55

Afonso V (1432-1481)

Aug 28 King of Portugal, dies at 49

Afonso V

Sep 21 Bartholomeus Platinum, Italian humanist and pontifical librarian, dies
Nov 21 Ikkyu Sojun, Zen head of Daitokuji temple, dies in Kyoto, Japan at 87

Famous People by Cause of Death