1440s deaths

Vidyapati (–1448), also known by the sobriquet Maithil Kavi Kokil (), was a Maithili and Sanskrit polymath-poet-saint, playwright, composer, biographer, philosopher, law-theorist, writer, courtier and royal priest. He was a devotee of Shiva, but also wrote love songs and devotional Vaishnava songs. He had knowledge of, and composed works in Sanskrit, Prakrit, Apabhramsha and Maithili.

German painter

Serbian Princess and the wife of Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I

king of Georgia (1412-1442)

Italian painter (c.1400-c.1445)

Italian humanist scholar (1370-1444)

Dutch painter, active 1415-1440

Duke of Mecklenburg

Polish duke

Lithuanian boyar, adopted by Polish nobles

Hungarian soldier

Count of Waldeck from 1397 until his death

Italian painter (1355-1443)

French noble

painter from Portugal

Vietnamese scholar, statesman and engineer

Portuguese explorer