1506 deaths

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.

Italian Renaissance painter (1431-1506)

King of Castile (1506), Ruler of Habsburg Netherlands (1482-1506)

King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania

Japanese artist (1420-1506)

Queen Consort of Hungary, Bohemia and Croatia, English subject as countess of Candale (Kendal), descendant of the house de la Pole (1484-1506)

Yeonsangun or Prince Yeonsan, personal name Yi Yung, was the 10th monarch of the Joseon dynasty of Korea. Often considered the worst tyrant in Joseon's history and perhaps all Korean history, he is notorious for launching two bloody purges, seizing hundreds of women from all over the peninsula to serve as palace entertainers, and appropriating Sungkyunkwan as a personal pleasure ground. Yeonsangun's despotic rule provided a stark contrast to the liberal era of his father, and as a much-despised overthrown monarch, he did not receive a temple name.

Netherlandish composer

Timurid monarch

Duchess of Viseu, was the only female governor of the Order of Christ

Princess of Squillace, illegitimate daughter of King Alfonso II of Naples

Italian historian

Ottoman court poet, renowed for her witty and polished lyrics of courtship and gallantry (1460–1506)

Albanian noble

French noble

Italian artist (1418-1503)

German Catholic bishop (1450-1506)

Italian artist (1418-1506)

Spanish cardinal

Princess of Naples

Tibetan Buddhist religious figure, 1454–1506

Catholic cardinal

Spanish architect. master of the Valencian Gothic architecture.

Consort of Yeonsangun of Joseon

Poet and Greek language scholar

one of the Wali Sanga of Indonesia

German businessman (1453-1506)

Czech architect

Member of Korean royal family, civil servant (1445 ?1449 – 1506)

Spanish poet, noble and politician

Italian humanist, writer and professor of medicine (1419–1505 )

Arab astronomer

French noble

Persian poet and saint

Japanese warlord (1466–1506)

Italian sculptor (1443-1506)

Sultan of Kedah

English noble

Italian painter (1443-1506)

bishop of strasbourg (*1440-1506)

Roman Catholic bishop

painter (1420-1501)

Druze emir

Italian painter (1457-1506)