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== Births ==
* [[January 20]] &ndash; [[Ashikaga Yoshimasa]], Japanese shōgun (d. [[1490]])
* [[January 26]] &ndash; [[Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset]], Lancastrian military commander during the English [[Wars of the Roses]] (d. [[1464]])
* [[February 26]] &ndash; [[Imagawa Yoshitada]], 9th head of the Imagawa clan in Japan (d. [[1476]])
* [[April 4]] &ndash; [[Amalia of Saxony, Duchess of Bavaria]]-Landshut (d. [[1501]])
* [[June 6]] &ndash; [[Regiomontanus]], German astronomer (d. [[1476]])
* [[November 5]] &ndash; [[Richard Grey, 3rd Earl of Tankerville]], English nobleman, attainted as a Yorkist supporter during the Wars of the Roses (d. [[1466]])
* [[November 16]] &ndash; [[Leonardo Loredan]], Doge of Venice (d. [[1521]])
* [[November 26]] &ndash; Princess [[Catherine of Portugal (nun)|Catherine of Portugal]], nun and writer (d. [[1463]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Sheikh Hamdullah]], Anatolian Islamic calligrapher (d. [[1520]])
** [[Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros]], Spanish cardinal and statesman (d. [[1517]])
** [[Hernando del Pulgar]], Spanish writer (d. {{Circa|1492}})
** Abi Ahmet Celebi, chief physician of the [[Ottoman Empire]] (writer of a study on kidney and bladder stones; supporter of the research of Jewish doctor Musa Colinus ul-Israil on the application of drugs; founder of the first Ottoman medical school)