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''This article is about the year 1471, not the BT caller ID service accessible by dialling 1-4-7-1 .''
Events
Births
- February 15 - Piero Di Lorenzo De' Medici , ruler of Florence (died 1503 )
- May 21 - Albrecht Dürer , German artist, writer, and mathematician (died 1528 )
- August 27 - George, Duke Of Saxony (died 1539 )
- October 7 - King Frederick I Of Denmark (died 1533 )
- October 15 - Konrad Mutian , German humanist (died 1526 )
- John Forrest , English martyr and friar (died 1538 )
- Conradus Mutianus Rufus , German humanist (died 1526 )
- Edmund De La Pole, 3rd Duke Of Suffolk (died 1513 )
- Jan Feliks "Szram" Tarnowski , Polish nobleman (died 1507 )
Deaths
- 18 January - Emperor Go-Hanazono Of Japan (born 1419 )
- 21 February - John Of Rokycan , Archbishop of Prague
- 14 March - Thomas Malory , English author
- 14 April - John Neville, 1st Marquess Of Montagu (born 1431 )
- 14 April - Richard Neville, 16th Earl Of Warwick , English kingmaker (born 1428 )
- 4 May - Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke Of Somerset (executed) (born 1438 )
- May - Edward, Prince Of Wales (killed in battle) (born 1453 )
- May - King Henry VI Of England (murdered in prison) (born 1421 )
- 26 July - Pope Paul II (born 1417 )
- Thomas à Kempis , German monk and writer (born 1380 )
- Pachacuti , Inca emperor
- George Of Podebrady , first elected King Of Bohemia
- Thomas Tresham , Speaker of the House of Commons
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