- Mar 3 Ausiàs March, Catalan poet of Valencian literature, dies at 59
- May 2 Pierozzi Antoninus, Italian archbishop of Florence/saint, dies
- Oct 18 Jan of Heinsberg, bishop of Luik (1419-56), dies
- Oct 30 Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist, who rediscovered lost classical texts, dies at 79
- Dec 4 Adolf VIII, Duke of Southern Jutland (b. 1401)