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Johannes Ockeghem

Franco-Flemish composer

Benozzo Gozzoli

Italian painter (c.1421-1497)

Beatrice d’Este

duchess of Milan and Bari

Filippo II, Duke of Savoy

duke of Savoy (1438-1497)

John, Prince of Asturias

Prince of Asturia

Giovanni Borgia, 2nd Duke of Gandia

son of Pope Alexander VI

Ottoman Grand Vizier

Lê Thánh Tông

emperor of Đại Việt (1442-1497) (r. 1460-1497)

first wife of Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, daughter of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan

Catherine Woodville, Duchess of Buckingham

English noblewoman; younger sister of Elizabeth Woodville

Benedetto da Maiano

Italian artist and achitect (1442–1497)

Albert Brudzewski

Polish academic and diplomat

Al-Mutawakkil II

15th Abbasid caliph of Cairo

Johann von Tiefen

Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (1440–1497)

Antonio Manetti

Italian humanist, architect and mathematician (1423-1497)

Shams al-Din al-Sakhawi

Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥmān al-Sakhāwī (, 1428/831 AH – 1497/902 AH) was a Shafi‘i Muslim hadith scholar and historian who was born in Cairo. Al-Sakhawi refers to the village of Sakha in Egypt, where his relatives belonged. He was a prolific writer that excelled in the knowledge of hadith, tafsir, literature, and history. His work was also anthropological. For example, in Egypt he recorded the marital history of 500 women, the largest sample on marriage in the Middle Ages, and found that at least a third of all women in the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and the Bilad al-Sham married m

Sophie of Pomerania, Duchess of Pomerania

Married to Eric II, Duke of Pomerania

The seventh Padishah of Aq Qoyunlu (1497)

Giovanni Giacomo Sclafenati

Catholic cardinal

The sixth Padishah of Aq Qoyunlu (1492–1497)

Benedetto Ghirlandaio

painter of the Italian Renaissance (1458-1497)

Bernardino Lunati

Italian cardinal

Charles I, Count of Armagnac

Nicholas II of Niemodlin

Duke of Niemodlin

Bernhard von Breydenbach

German author (1440–1497)

Cornish nationalist

Ilona Szilágyi

Princess consort of Wallachia

Estêvão da Gama

Portuguese knight

Bertrand VI de La Tour d'Auvergne

comte d'Auvergne, de Boulogne

Veronica of Milan

Italian Roman Catholic nun and blessed

Joan Roís de Corella

Catherine of Guelders

Dutch nobler (1439-1497)

Ashikaga Shigeuji

1st Koga Kubō of the Ashikaga shogunate

Jacometto Veneziano

Italian painter, active 1472-1497

Robert Briçonnet

Roman Catholic archbishop

Elizabeth Tilney, Countess of Surrey

English countess

Infanta Philippa of Coimbra

Portuguese noble

Petras Jonaitis Mangirdaitis

Lithuanian statesman

Cornish lawyer and rebel

Guido Antonio Arcimboldi

Gherardo di Giovanni del Fora

Italian painter (1445-1497)

English cleric and musician (1418-1497)

wife of Jakob Fugger the Elder (1419-1497)

Bartolomeo Scala

Italian politician and historian (1430-1497)

Leading military commander during the Muromachi period in Mino Province

Aurelio Lippo Brandolini

Italian humanist and political theorist