1481 deaths

seventh Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1444–1446, 1451–1481)

Scandinavian monarch under the Kalmar Union (1426-1481)

King of Portugal and the Algarves

French painter (c. 1420–1481)

Italian sculptor (1399–1482)

thumb|right|240px|Buddhist verse by Ikkyū

thumb|500px|Map showing territorial expansions of the Aztec Empire under each of the Aztec rulers. Expansions during the reign of Axayacatl are indicated in blue.

Italian Renaissance humanist (1398–1481)

Italian humanist writer and gastronomist (1421–1481)

Khan of the Great Horde

Italian artist (1418–1481)

Portuguese explorer (14__-1481)

Duke of Cleves and Count of Mark (1419-1481)

French noble

Marchioness of Mantua

Ottoman grand vizier (1458–1481)

English noblewoman (1472–1481)

poet-saint of Gujarat

Regent of Sweden (1419-1481)

Iranian poet

Italian artist (1429-1481)

Indonesian Wali Sanga Islamist

Court noble

Italian cardinal

German architect

King of Lan Xang

Italian painter (1405–1481)

Italian cardinal

Countess Palatine and Duchess of Zweibruecken and Veldenz (1461–1481)

7th head of Asakura clan. daimyo of the middle Muromachi period. a.k.a. Eirin

French aristocrat

Lithuanian noble

Tibetan historian

Spanish explorer

biblical scholar

Architect and engineer

Lithuanian Roman Catholic Bishop of Lutsk and later Bishop of Vilnius

Chinese architect and engineer

Italian noble and condottiere

Russian monk and saint

Renaissance humanist, grandfather of Giovanni di Bernardo Rucellai

French politician and military figure (1430-1481)

Countess of Pembroke; younger sister of Elizabeth Woodville

German scholastic theologian