Editing 1472 (section)

== Births ==
* [[January 17]] &ndash; [[Guidobaldo da Montefeltro]], Italian condottiero and Duke of Urbino (d. [[1508]])
* [[February 15]] &ndash; [[Piero the Unfortunate|Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici]], ruler of Florence (d. [[1503]])
* [[March 28]] &ndash; [[Fra Bartolomeo]], Italian artist (d. [[1517]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Russell LeRoi Bohr|title=The Italian Drawings in the E.B. Crocker Art Gallery Collection, Sacramento, California|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S4dJAQAAMAAJ|year=1958|publisher=University of California, Berkeley|page=35}}</ref>
* [[April 5]] &ndash; [[Bianca Maria Sforza]], Pavian-born Holy Roman Empress as consort to [[Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor]] (d. [[1510]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/bianca-maria-sforza-regina-dei-romani-e-imperatrice_(Dizionario-Biografico)|title=Bianca Maria Sforza, regina dei Romani e imperatrice|publisher=Treccani|language=it|access-date=2022-08-26}}</ref>
* [[April 10]] &ndash; [[Margaret of York (1472)|Margaret of York]], English princess (d. 1472)<ref name="Ramsay1892">{{cite book|author=Sir James Henry Ramsay|title=Lancaster and York: A Century of English History (A.D. 1399-1485)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6GkNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA469|year=1892|publisher=Clarendon Press|pages=469}}</ref>
* [[May 31]] &ndash; [[Érard de La Marck]], prince-bishop of Liège (d. [[1538]])
* [[August 11]] &ndash; [[Nikolaus von Schönberg]], German Catholic cardinal (d. [[1537]])
* [[October 19]] &ndash; [[John Louis, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken]] (d. [[1545]])
* [[October 31]] &ndash; [[Wang Yangming]], Chinese Neo-Confucian scholar (d. [[1529]])
* [[November 24]] &ndash; [[Pietro Torrigiano]], Italian sculptor of the Florentine school (d. [[1528]])
* [[December 10]] &ndash; [[Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk]] (d. [[1481]])
* ''date unknown'' 
** [[Lucas Cranach the Elder]], German painter (d. [[1553]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)|title=The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BFRvyS6-49cC&pg=PA101|year=1984|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|isbn=978-0-87099-370-1|pages=101}}</ref>
** [[Alfonsina Orsini]], Regent of Florence (d. [[1520]])
** [[Barbro Stigsdotter]], Swedish noblewoman and heroine (d. [[1528]])