1451 births

Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish transatlantic voyages in the name of the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas. His expeditions were the first known European contact with the Caribbean and Central and South America.

queen of the Crown of Castile, from 1474 to 1504; first queen of a dynastically-united Spain, from 1479 to 1504 (1451–1504)

Duke of Lorraine (1451-1508)

Italian politician (1450–1522)

English noblewoman (1451–1476)

Italian music theorist and composer (1451–1522)

eldest son of Abu Sa'id Mirza who became the Timurid ruler of Samarkand & Bukhara

Ming dynasty eunuch (1451-1510)

Italian humanist, historian and theologian (1451-1522)

Spanish archbishop and politician (1451-1524)

Mukam Nokha, Bikaner, RAJASTHAN, India

Catholic cardinal

Duke of Mecklenburg

Count of Nassau-Vianden and Lord of Breda (1451-1504)

Roman Catholic cardinal

Princess of Brandenburg by birth and by marriage Duchess of Württemberg

Russian noblewoman, Regent of the Ryazan Principality in 1483 and in 1500–1501

wife of Mengli I Giray

English noble

English Yorkist nobleman (1455-1491)

Indian writer

Italian Roman Catholic priest and hermit

Italian lawyer