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Born in 1478

21 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Thomas More

    writer, historian

    1478–1535 · aged 57

    February 16 · 1478

    Source: luminarium.org

  2. Francisco Pizarro

    conquistador, Conqueror

    1478–1541 · aged 63

    March 16 · 1478

    Source: GeneaStar

  3. Clement VII

    transitional deacon, Catholic priest

    1478–1534 · aged 56

    June 4 · 1478

    Source: BeWeB

  4. Philip I of Castile

    ruler

    1478–1506 · aged 28

    July 1 · 1478

    Source: Spanish Biographical Dictionary

  5. Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham

    1478–1521 · aged 43

    February 12 · 1478

    No external source identified

  6. Giorgione

    painter, visual artist

    1478–1510

    1478

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  7. John, Prince of Asturias

    1478–1497 · aged 19

    June 30 · 1478

    Source: Spanish Biographical Dictionary

  8. Baldassarre Castiglione

    ambassador, writer

    1478–1529 · aged 50

    December 15 · 1478

    Source: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani

  9. Lord Edmund Howard

    1478–1539

    1478

    No external source identified

  10. Margery Wentworth

    1478–1550

    1478

    No external source identified

  11. Salim Chishti

    1478–1572

    1478

    No external source identified

  12. Khanzada Begum

    1478–1545

    1478

    No external source identified

  13. Henry Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland

    military commander, politician

    1478–1527 · aged 49

    January 23 · 1478

    Source: Dictionary of National Biography

  14. Barbara Jagiellon

    politician

    1478–1534 · aged 55

    July 24 · 1478

    No external source identified

  15. Gian Giorgio Trissino

    writer, playwright

    1478–1550 · aged 72

    July 17 · 1478

    Source: BnF authorities

  16. Contessina de' Medici

    aristocrat

    1478–1515 · aged 37

    January 16 · 1478

    No external source identified

  17. Louis V

    1478–1544 · aged 65

    July 2 · 1478

    Source: The Peerage

  18. Elisabeth of Bavaria

    politician, aristocrat

    1478–1504

    1478

    Source: Genealogics

  19. Wolfgang Capito

    theologian, university teacher

    1478–1541

    1478

    Source: Sapere Encyclopedia

  20. Maarten van Rossum

    condottiero

    1478–1555

    1478

    Source: Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren

  21. Konrad Pellikan

    theologian, humanist

    1478–1556 · aged 78

    January 17 · 1478

    Source: Contemporaries of Erasmus (vol. 3)

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