Deaths Date 1506 | History by KabAstro

Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)

May 20 Italian explorer and navigator who discovered the "New World" for Spain and initiated European colonization, dies around the age of 54

Aug 8 Sesshu Toyo, Zen monk/painter, dies in Yamaguchi Japan at 86
Sep 13 Andrea Mantegna, Italian Renaissance painter (painting in ducal palace in Mantua) (b. 1431)
Sep 25 Philip I, the handsome, Ist Hapsburg King of Castile (1506), Duke of Burgundy (1482-1506), dies of a fever at 28