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March 29 - The Aragonese capture Oristano, capital of the giudicato di Arborea in Sardinia

July 15 – Battle of Grunwald (also known as Tannenberg or Zalgiris). Polish-Lithuanian forces under the cousins Władysław Jagiełło of Poland and Witowt of Lithuania (Vytautas the Great) decisively defeat the forces of the Teutonic Knights, whose power is broken

Jan Hus is excommunicated by the Archbishop of Prague.

Antipope John XXIII is elected.

Start of the building of Castle Woerden.

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William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness (died 1484)

Johannes Ockeghem, Dutch composer (approximate date; died 1497)

Conrad Paumann, German organist and composer (approximate date; died 1473)

Masuccio Salernitano, Italian poet (died 1475)

Vecchietta, Sienese painter, sculptor and architect (approximate date; died 1480)

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March 16 - John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset

May 3 - Pope Alexander V

May 31 - King Martin I of Aragon (born 1356)

July 15 - Ulrich von Jungingen, German Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (killed in battle) (born 1360)

July 15 - Friedrich von Wallenrode, komtur of Ryna, killed in the battle of Grunwald

Beatrice of Portugal, queen of John I of Castile (born 1372)

John Badby, English martyr

Louis II, Duke of Bourbon (born 1337)

John Gower, English poet (born 1330)

Isabella of Valois, Princess of France (born 1387)

Matthew of Kraków, Polish reformer (born 1335)

Rupert of Germany, Count Palatine of the Rhine (born 1352)