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Jami
right|thumb|Illustration from Jami's Rose Garden of the Pious, dated 1553. The image blends Persian literature|Persian poetry and [[Persian miniature into one, as is the norm for many works of Persian literature.]]
Lorenzo de' Medici
Italian politician, literary man and humanist
Innocent VIII
pope of the Catholic Church from 1484 to 1492
Piero della Francesca
Italian painter and mathematician (c. 1416–1492)
Casimir IV Jagiellon
King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania
Elizabeth Woodville
Queen consort of England
Antoine Busnois
French composer and poet
Gülbahar Hatun
Concubine of Mehmed II and mother of Bayezid II
Sonni Ali
King of the Songhai Empire
Beatrice of Silva
Portuguese Catholic nun and saint, founder of the Order of the Immaculate Conception (Conceptionists)
Jaume Huguet
Catalan artist (1412-1492)
Beltrán de la Cueva, 1st Duke of Alburquerque
Spanish noble (1443-1492)
Kim Chong-jik
Joseon philosopher & civil servant (1431 – 1492)
Christina Abrahamsdotter
15th-century queen consort of Sweden
Dionysius I of Constantinople
Patriarch of Constantinople
Katarina Branković
Countess Consort of Celje
René, Duke of Alençon
Duke of Alençon and Count of Perche
John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk
English Duke
Carlo de' Medici
priest
Anne Beauchamp, 16th Countess of Warwick
English countess
Blind Harry
Scottish author of the poem The Wallace
Domenico Gagini
Italian artist (1420-1492)
Louis de Gruuthuse
Louis de Bruges; ca. 1427-1492; married Marguerite de Borselen in 1455; noted diplomat and bibliophile
Henry the Younger of Poděbrady
Prince of Bohemia, duke of Münsterberg, Czech poet, prince, translator and writer
Maffeo Gherardi
Italian cardinal
Alfonso de Palencia
Castilian pre-Renaissance historiographer, lexicographer, and humanist
Philip II of Nassau-Weilburg
Count of Nassau-Weilburg (1429-1490)
Pietro Ranzano
Dominican friar, historian, humanist and scholar
Adolph of Cleves, Lord of Ravenstein
politician (1425-1492)
Konrad X the White
Polish duke
Dhammazedi
Dhammazedi (, , Pali: Dhammacetiya; c. 1409–1492, reigned 1471 to 1492), also called Dhammaceti the Wise, was the 16th king of the Hanthawaddy Kingdom in Burma. Considered one of the most enlightened rulers in Burmese history, by some accounts call him "the greatest" all Hanthawaddy kings. The former Buddhist monk, educated in the rival kingdom of Ava in his youth, was a trusted adviser and son-in-law of Queen Shin Sawbu. At age 48, he left the monkhood after he was selected by Shin Sawbu as the heir apparent, and was married to one of the queen's daughters. He immediately became the de facto
Pedro de Peralta
Count of the Kingdom of Navarre
Rodrigo Ponce de León, Duke of Cádiz
Leonese noble
Benedetto Dei
Italian historian
Bernardo Bellincioni
Italian poet
Tikhon of Kaluga
Russian saint and abbot
Gerard Leeu
Dutch printer (1445–1492)
Andreas Ritzos
Greek painter (1421-1492)
Tadhg Mac Cárthaigh
Irish bishop
Francesco Benaglio
Italian painter (1430-1492)
Catherine of Luxembourg-Saint-Pol
Duchess consort of Brittany (?–1492)
Enrique de Guzmán, 2nd Duke of Medina Sidonia
Marquis of Gibraltar
Tifi degli Odasi
Italian poet
Petru Muha
Polish-Wallachian rebel and military leader (fl. 1490)
George Nevill, 4th Baron Bergavenny
English noble
William de Berkeley, 1st Marquess of Berkeley
English peer
Pedro Fernández de Velasco, 2nd Count of Haro
2nd count of Haro