1440 deaths

leader in the French army, companion-in-arms of Joan of Arc, convicted serial killer of children

1371 – 1440, Burgrave of Nuremberg as Frederick VI and Elector of Brandenburg as Frederick I

Itzcoatl ( , "Obsidian Serpent", ) (c. 1380–1440) was the fourth king of Tenochtitlan, and the founder of the Aztec Empire, ruling from 1427 to 1440. Under Itzcoatl the Mexica of Tenochtitlan threw off the domination of the Tepanecs and established the Triple Alliance (Aztec Empire) together with the other city-states Tetzcoco and Tlacopan.

Italian painter (c. 1360 – before 1427)

Lithuanian noble (1365–1440)

Italian mystic and religious foundress

Byzantine empress

German writer

German noble

Consort of Murad II

Italian banker

Dutch purported inventor of printing press (1405-1484)

Landgrave of Thuringia, Margrave of Meissen

English countess

Queen consort of Cyprus

(1419-1440)

Catholic cardinal

French farmer, father of Joan of Arc

French composer

Welsh marcher lord

Ming dynasty politician, Senior Grand Secretary (died 1440)

15th-century French priest and writer

Scottish nobleman

Imam and Scholar Sunni Shafi’i

Serbian-origin princess of the XIVth and XVth century, caught by Bayezid I and later by Timur. Finally established and married in Spain.

bey of the Candar Beylik

Polish statesman

Russian nobleman, died 1440

Scottish noble