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Events
- Leonardo da Vinci completes the Mona Lisa.
- Hernán Cortés, conquistador, arrives in the New World at Santo Domingo in Hispaniola, age 22.
- The statue Laocoön and his Sons is discovered in Rome.
Births
- April 7 - Francis Xavier, Spanish Jesuit saint (died 1552)
- April 13 - Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (died 1546)
- Elizabeth Barton, the Holy Maid of Kent (died 1534)
- George Buchanan, Scottish humanist scholar (died 1582)
- Wu Cheng'en, Chinese novelist and poet
- Margaret Lee, sister of poet Thomas Wyatt and confidante of Queen Anne Boleyn (died 1543)
- Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (died 1526)
- Louis de Blois, Flemish mystical writer (died 1566)
- Vicente Masip, Spanish painter (died 1579)
- William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English statesman (died 1563)
- Ii Naomori, Japanese samurai
Deaths
- May 4 - Husayn Bayqarah, Timurid ruler of Herat
- May 20 - Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer (born 1451)
- September 25 - Philip I of Castile (born 1478)
- Alexander Agricola, Franco-Flemish composer
- King Alexander of Poland (born 1461)
- Andrea Mantegna, Florentine painter and engraver (born 1431)