Editing 1471 (section)

== Deaths ==
* [[January 18]] &ndash; [[Emperor Go-Hanazono|Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan]] (b. [[1418]])
* [[February 10]] &ndash; [[Frederick II, Elector of Brandenburg|Frederick II, Margrave of Brandenburg]] (b. [[1413]])
* [[February 21]] &ndash; [[Jan Rokycana|John of Rokycan]], Archbishop of Prague (b. c. [[1396]])
* [[March 14]] &ndash; [[Thomas Malory]], English author (b. c. [[1405]])
* [[March 22]] &ndash; [[George of Poděbrady]], first elected [[King of Bohemia]] (b. [[1420]])
* [[April 14]]
** [[John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu]] (b. [[1431]])
** [[Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick]], English nobleman, known as "the Kingmaker" (b. [[1428]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Jean Clare-Tighe|title=Loyaulté Me Lie: Loyalty Binds Me|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cpMnDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA20|date=13 June 2017|publisher=Troubador Publishing Ltd|isbn=978-1-78803-348-0|pages=20}}</ref>
* [[May 4]] &ndash; [[Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales]] (in battle) (b. [[1453]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OX8ZN5qFKZgC|year=2011|publisher=Debrett's Peerage Limited|isbn=978-1-870520-73-7|page=122}}</ref>
* [[May 6]] 
** [[Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset]] (executed) (b. [[1438]])<ref>{{cite book|author=David Hipshon|title=Richard III|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=okgqAQAAMAAJ|year=2011|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-46281-5|page=89}}</ref>
** [[Thomas Tresham (speaker)|Thomas Tresham]], Speaker of the House of Commons
* [[May 21]] &ndash; King [[Henry VI of England]] (murdered in prison) (b. [[1421]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Geoff Brown|title=The Ends of Kings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3yGoAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT92|date=15 December 2008|publisher=Amberley Publishing Limited|isbn=978-1-4456-3143-1|pages=92}}</ref>
* [[July 25]] &ndash; [[Thomas à Kempis]], German monk and writer (b. [[1380]])
* [[July 26]] &ndash; [[Pope Paul II]] (b. [[1417]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Paul II {{!}} pope |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Paul-II |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=22 August 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[August 20]] &ndash; [[Borso d'Este]], Duke of Ferrara (b. [[1413]])
* [[November 8]] &ndash; [[Louis II, Landgrave of Lower Hesse]] (1458–1471) (b. [[1438]])
* [[December 17]] &ndash; [[Infanta Isabel, Duchess of Burgundy]] (b. [[1397]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Pachacuti]], Inca emperor (b. [[1438]])
** [[P'an-Lo T'ou-Ts'iuan]], last independent King of [[Champa]]
** [[Shin Sawbu]], queen regnant of [[Hanthawaddy Kingdom|Hanthawaddy]] in southern Burma (b. [[1394]])