Jan 24 Conrad Paumann, German blind organist/composer, dies May 8 John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English politician (b. 1420) Oct 10 Giorgio da Sebenico, Venetian sculptor and architect (Cathedral of St James in Šibenik) Oct 16 Reinoud II van Brederode, viscount of Utrecht, dies 1472 Famous Deaths by Year 1474