– Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to King Casimir IV of Poland who agrees to commit his forces in aiding the Confederation's struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights.

– Amerigo Vespucci, Italian cartographer and explorer (d. 1512)

– John Kemp, Archbishop of Canterbury

– The Treaty of Lodi is signed, establishing a balance of power among northern Italian city-states for almost 50 years.

– Bogislaw X, Duke of Pomerania (1474–1523) (d. 1523)

– Joanna of Aragon, Queen of Naples (d. 1517)

– Poliziano, Italian poet and scholar (d. 1494)

– John II, king of Castile and León (b. 1405)

– Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English politician, Lord High Constable of England (d. 1483)

– Catherine Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus (d. 1510)^[4]