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Famous People Who Died in 1485

  • Feb 28 Niclas, Graf von Abensberg, German soldier (b. 1441)
  • Mar 16 Anne Neville, English queen, wife of Richard III of England, dies at 28
  • Aug 7 Alexander Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, Scottish prince

Richard III (1452-1485)

Aug 22 King of England (1483-85), killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field at 32

  • Oct 27 Rudolphus Agricola [Roelof Huysman], Dutch humanist, scholar (De inventione dialectica), poet, and organist, dies at 41 or 42