1400s (decade)

January–December

• Casimir III of Poland
  .
• Robert Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany
  .
• May 21 – Following the death of Queen Maria of Sicily, her husband Martin I of Sicily, now sole ruler, marries Blanche of Navarre.
• June 22
  • Battle of Nesbit Moor: An English force decisively defeats a returning Scottish raiding party.
  • Battle of Bryn Glas: Welsh rebels under Owain Glyndŵr defeat the English on the England/Wales border.^[10] The Welsh capture Edmund Mortimer, son of the 3rd Earl, who defects to the Welsh cause, on 30 November marrying Owain's daughter Catrin.
• June 26 – Battle of Casalecchio: Gian Galeazzo Visconti, the Duke of Milan, crushes the forces of Bologna and Florence, but dies from a fever later this year and is succeeded by his son, Gian Maria Visconti.
• July 12 – The Ming dynasty prince Zhu Di and his army occupy the Ming capital, Nanjing. The Jianwen Emperor is either lost or killed and Zhu Di takes over the throne as the Yongle Emperor, marking the end of the Jingnan campaign.
• July 20 – Battle of Ankara: An invading Timurid Empire force defeats the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I, who is captured. A period of interregnum begins in the Ottoman Empire, with the future Mehmed I as one of the leading claimants to the throne. After Serbia is freed from Ottoman rule, Stefan Lazarević is crowned Despot of Serbia.
• carrying arms
  and living in English towns. Any Englishman who marries a Welsh woman also comes under the laws.
• September 14 – Battle of Homildon Hill: Northern English nobles, led by Sir Henry Percy (Hotspur), and using longbows, decisively defeat a Scottish raiding army and capture their leader, the Earl of Douglas.

Date unknown

• The Malacca Sultanate is established at Melaka Darul Azim (modern-day Melaka Darul Azim, Malaysia).
• After the Christian
  Knights of Saint John, who are ruling Smyrna, refuse to convert to Islam or pay tribute, Timur has the entire population massacred. The Knights subsequently begin building Bodrum Castle in Bodrum
  , to defend against future attacks.
• Conquest of the Canary Islands: King Henry III of Castile sends French explorer Jean de Béthencourt to colonize the Canary Islands. Béthencourt receives the title King of the Canary Islands but recognizes Henry as his overlord.
• The Republic of Genoa regains control of Monaco.
• The
  Amida to Diyarbakır
  .
• Kingdom of Poland in order to protect itself from an invasion by Hungary
  .
• Maria II Zaccaria succeeds her husband, Pedro de San Superano, as regent of the Principality of Achaea (modern-day southern Greece
  ).
• Conchobar an Abaidh mac Maelsechlainn O Cellaigh succeeds Maelsechlainn mac William Buidhe O Cellaigh, as King of
  Uí Maine in modern-day County Galway and County Roscommon in Ireland
  .
• The University of Würzburg is founded.
• The
  Joseon dynasty Korea
  .
• A Great comet is sighted.
• A big fire in the city of Utrecht starts near the Jacobikerk.

1403

January–December

• January / February – Treaty of Gallipoli: Süleyman Çelebi makes wide-ranging concessions to the Byzantine Empire and other Christian powers, in the southern Balkans.
• February 7 – King Henry IV of England marries as his second wife Joan of Navarre, the daughter of King Charles II of Navarre and widow of John IV, Duke of Brittany, at Winchester Cathedral.
• Benedict XIII flees to Aragon
  .
• Sigismund of Luxembourg
  .
• Principality of Zeta (now Montenegro
  ).
• Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo, an ambassador from the king of Castile to Timur, leaves Cadiz; he arrives in Samarkand
  over a year later.
• Before
  Henry 'Hotspur' Percy forms an alliance with Welsh rebel Owain Glyndŵr
  .
• "Hotspur" Percy
  , who is killed in the battle.
• Jean Le Maingre (Marshal Boucicaut) is defeated by the Republic of Venice, at Modon in the Peloponnese.^[11]
• October – An English fleet organised by John Hawley of Dartmouth and Thomas Norton of Bristol seizes seven French merchant vessels in the English Channel.
• November – An English revenge raid on Brittany by Sir William Wilford captures 40 ships and causes considerable damage ashore.^[12]
• December – Local English forces defeat an attempted French raid on the Isle of Wight under Waleran III, Count of Ligny.^[13]

Date unknown

• Wycliffite ideas in Bohemia
  .
• In China, the Yongle Emperor of the Ming dynasty
  • moves the capital from Nanjing to Beijing.
  • commissions the Yongle Encyclopedia, one of the world's earliest and largest known general encyclopedias.
  • orders his coastal provinces to build a vast fleet of ships, with construction centered at Longjiang near
    Yangtze River
    .
• The Temple of a City God is constructed in Shanghai
  .
• The
  Gur-e Amir Mausoleum is built in Samarkand by Timur, after the death of his grandson Muhammad Sultan, and eventually becomes the family mausoleum of the Timurid dynasty
  .
• Georgia makes peace with Timur, but has to recognise him as a suzerain and pay him tribute.
• The world's first quarantine station, the Lazzaretto Vecchio, is built in Venice, to protect against the Black Death.
• Grand Duke
  Muscovy, and captures Vyazma and Smolensk
  .
• Stefan Lazarević establishes Belgrade, as the capital of the Serbian Despotate.
• A guild of stationers is founded in the City of London. As the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers (the "Stationers' Company"), it continues to be a livery company in the 21st century.
• In Ireland
  • Tadhg Ruadh mac Maelsechlainn O Cellaigh succeeds Conchobar an Abaidh mac Maelsechlainn O Cellaigh, as King of
    Hy-Many, in present-day counties Galway and Roscommon
    .
  • Maolmhordha mac Con Connacht succeeds Giolla Iosa mac Pilib, as King of East Breifne, in present-day counties Leitrim and Cavan.
• probable – Ououso becomes King of
  Okinawa, Japan
  .

January–December

• April or May – Battle of Blackpool Sands: Local English forces defeat an attempted raid from Saint-Malo on the port of Dartmouth, Devon; the French commander, William du Chastel, is killed.^[14][15]
• June 14 – Rebel leader Owain Glyndŵr, having declared himself Prince of Wales, allies with the French against the English. He later begins holding parliamentary assemblies.
• October 17 – Pope Innocent VII succeeds Pope Boniface IX, as the 204th pope.
• November 19 – St. Elizabeth's flood: A flood of the North Sea devastates parts of Flanders, Zeeland and Holland.

Date unknown

• Jean de Béthencourt becomes the first ruler of the Kingdom of the Canary Islands.
• Stephan
  Stefan Ostoja as King of Bosnia
  .
• Peace is declared between
  Muscovy
  .
• Mircea cel Bătrân
  .
• The University of Turin is founded.
• Timur is hit by a fever, while preparing to invade China.
• Centurione II Zaccaria succeeds Maria II Zaccaria, as ruler of the Principality of Achaea.
• Harihara Raya II, as ruler of the Vijayanagara Empire in present-day southern India
  .
• Narayana Ramadhipati succeeds Ponthea Yat, as King of Cambodia.
• Ruaidri Caech MacDermot succeeds Conchobair Óg MacDermot, as King of Magh Luirg, in present-day northeast Connacht, Ireland.
• The city of Vicenza comes under the rule of the Venetians.

1405

January–December

• May 29 – In England, Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, meets Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York and Earl of Norfolk Thomas Mowbray in Shipton Moor, tricks them to send their rebellious army home, and then imprisons them.
• June 8 – Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, are executed in York on Henry IV's orders.
• explore the world
  for the first time.
• Queen Isabeau, urging her to intervene in the political struggle between the dukes of Burgundy and Orléans
  .
• November 17 – The Sultanate of Sulu is established on the Sulu Archipelago, off the coast of Mindanao in the Philippines.

Date unknown

• The first record is written of
  whiskey being consumed in Ireland
  , where it is distilled by Catholic monks.
• Bellifortis, a book on military technology, is published by Konrad Kyeser.
• Christine de Pizan writes The Book of the City of Ladies.

1406

January–December

• King of Scotland on the death of his father. He has been detained by Henry IV of England
  since March 30 and will remain at the English court for 18 years.
• October 7 – French troops comprising 1,000 men at arms land on the Channel Island of Jersey, and fight a battle against 3,000 defenders.^[16]
• October 13 – Richard Whittington is elected Lord Mayor of London for a second full term. He holds this office simultaneously, with that of Mayor of the Calais Staple.
• October 26 – Eric of Pomerania, ruler of the Kalmar Union, marries Philippa, daughter of Henry IV of England, in Lund Cathedral.
• November 30 – Pope Gregory XII succeeds Pope Innocent VII, as the 205th pope.
• December 25 – John II becomes King of Castile aged 21 months on the death of his father.

Date unknown

• Construction of the Forbidden City begins in Beijing during the Chinese Ming dynasty.
• Pisa is subjugated by Florence.

1407

January–December

• Deshin Shekpa, finally visits the Ming dynasty capital, then at Nanjing. In his twenty-two-day visit, he thrills the Ming court with alleged miracles that are recorded in a gigantic scroll, translated into five different languages. In a show of mystical prowess, Deshin Shekpa adds legitimacy to a questionable succession to the throne by Yongle, who had killed his nephew the Jianwen Emperor in the culmination of a civil war
  . For his services to the Ming court, including his handling of the ceremonial rites of Yongle's deceased parents, Deshin Shekpa is awarded the title Great Treasure Prince of Dharma (大寶法王).
• conquers Vietnam, capturing Hồ Quý Ly and his sons, ending the Vietnamese Hồ dynasty
  .
• November 20 – A solemn truce between John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy and Louis I, Duke of Orléans is agreed under the auspicies of John, Duke of Berry.
• November 23 – The Duke of Orleans is assassinated; war breaks out again between the Burgundians and his followers.^[17][18]

Date unknown

• Rudolfo Belenzani leads a revolt against Bishop Georg von Liechtenstein in Trento, Bishopric of Trent.
• David Holbache founds Oswestry School, in the Welsh Marches.
• Mateu Texidor finishes the Puente de la Trinidad bridge in Valencia, Spain.

1408

January–December

• February 19 – Battle of Bramham Moor: A royalist army defeats the last remnants of the Percy Rebellion.
• September – Henry, Prince of Wales (later Henry V of England) retakes Aberystwyth from Owain Glyndŵr.
• September 16 – Thorstein Olafssøn marries Sigrid Bjørnsdatter in Hvalsey Church, in the last recorded event of the Norse history of Greenland.
• December 5 – Emir Edigu of the Golden Horde reaches Moscow.
• Sigismund of Hungary
  .

Date unknown

• The
  Iaşi
  is first mentioned.
• The Yongle Encyclopedia is completed.^[19]
• Gotland passes under Danish rule.
• Zheng He delivers 300 virgins from Korea to the Chinese emperor.
• Mircea cel Bătrân
  .

1409

January–December

• January 1 – The Welsh surrender Harlech Castle to the English.
• January 18 – The Decree of Kutná Hora strengthens the Bohemian Nation at thee cost of foreign, mostly German speaking students at the University of Prague. Over a thousand students leave Prague as a consequence, chosing instead the universities of Heidelberg and the new university of Leipzig established later in the year.
• March 25 – The Council of Pisa opens. On June 5 it deposes Pope Gregory XII and Antipope Benedict XIII, and on June 26 crowns Petros Philargos as Pope Alexander V; he is subsequently regarded as an antipope.
• King of Sicily
  .
• August 7 – The Council of Pisa closes.
• University of Leipzig
  opens.
• December 9 – Louis II of Anjou founds the University of Aix-en-Provence.

Date unknown

• Ulugh Beg becomes governor of Samarkand.
• The Republic of Venice purchases the port of Zadar from Hungary.
• Grand Master
  Teutonic Knights guarantees peace with the Kalmar Union of Scandinavia, by selling the Baltic Sea island of Gotland to Queen Margaret of Denmark, Norway and Sweden.^[20]
• Ming empire fleet, deposes the king of Sri Lanka
  .
• Mircea cel Bătrân successfully defends Silistra
  against the Ottomans.

Significant people

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Births

1400

• Infante John of Portugal, the Constable (d. 1442
  )
• March 15 – Guillaume Jouvenel des Ursins, Justice Minister of France (d. 1472)
• May 19 – John Stourton, 1st Baron Stourton, English baron (d. 1462)
• June 14 – Joan Ramon II, Count of Cardona (d. 1471)
• Isabel le Despenser, Countess of Worcester, English noble (d. 1439
  )
• October 24 – Mani' ibn Rabi'a al-Muraydi, oldest known ancestor of the House of Al Sa'ud (d. 1463)
• December 25 – John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1487)
• date unknown
  • James Tuchet, 5th Baron Audley (d. 1459)
  • Luca della Robbia, Florentine sculptor (d. 1482)
  • Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine (d. 1453).
  • Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, English politician (d. 1460)
  • Owen Tudor, Welsh courtier (d. 1461)
  • Rogier van der Weyden, Dutch painter (or 1399)
  • Hans Multscher, German painter and sculptor (d. 1467)
  • Helene Kottanner, Hungarian writer and courtier (d. after 1470)
• probable
  • Marina Nani, Venetian dogaressa (d. 1473)
  • Giovanna Dandolo, Venetian dogaressa (d. after 1462)
  • Johannes Gutenberg^[21] (d. 1468)

1401

• March 27 – Albert III, Duke of Bavaria-Munich (d. 1460)
• May 10 – Thomas Tuddenham, Landowner (d. 1462)
• May 12 – Emperor Shōkō of Japan (d. 1428)
• July 23 – Francesco I Sforza, Italian condottiero (d. 1466)^[22]
• Maria of Castile, Queen of Aragon, Queen consort of Aragon and Naples (d. 1458
  )
• October 27 – Catherine of Valois, queen consort of England from 1420 until 1422 (d. 1437)^[23]
• November 26 – Henry Beaufort, 2nd Earl of Somerset (d. 1418)
• Tommaso Masaccio, Italian painter (d. 1428
  )
• date unknown
  • Charles I, Duke of Bourbon (d. 1456)
  • Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut (d. 1436)
• probable – Nicholas of Cusa, German philosopher, mathematician and astronomer (d. 1464)

1402

• February 6 – Louis I, Landgrave of Hesse, Landgrave of Hesse (1413-1458) (d. 1458)
• April 28 – Nezahualcoyotl, Acolhuan philosopher, warrior, poet and tlatoani of Texcoco (d. 1472)
• May 2 – Eleanor of Aragon, Queen of Portugal (d. 1445)
• June 7 – Ichijō Kaneyoshi, Japanese court noble (d. 1481)
• September 29 – Ferdinand the Holy Prince of Portugal (d. 1443)
• November 23 – Jean de Dunois, French nobleman and soldier, illegitimate son of Louis I (d. 1468)
• date unknown – Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English nobleman (d. 1460)

1403

• Latin Patriarch of Constantinople (d. 1472
  )
• February 22 – King Charles VII of France, monarch of the House of Valois, King of France from 1422 to his death (d. 1461)
• June 11 – John IV, Duke of Brabant, son of Antoine (d. 1427)
• August 11 – Ravenna Petrova, Princess of Amara Palace, daughter of William Hamilton and Anita Petrova. (d. 1423)
• September 1 – Louis VIII, Duke of Bavaria, German noble (d. 1445)
• September 25 – Louis III of Anjou (d. 1434)
• September 29 – Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brzeg-Legnica and Cieszyn, German princess (d. 1449)
• date unknown
  • Robert Wingfield, English politician (d. 1454)
  • John IV, Emperor of Trebizond (d. 1459)

1404

• January 18 – Sir Philip Courtenay, British noble (d. 1463)
• February 14 – Leon Battista Alberti, Italian painter, poet, and philosopher (d. 1472)
• March 25 (bapt.) – John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English military leader (d. 1444)
• Ottoman Sultan (d. 1451
  )
• July 6 – Yamana Sōzen, Japanese warlord and monk (d. 1473)
• July 25 – Philip I, Duke of Brabant (d. 1430)
• September 30 – Anne of Burgundy (d. 1432)
• September – Gilles de Rais, French aristocrat (d. 1440)
• October 14 – Marie of Anjou, queen of Charles VII of France (d. 1463)

1405

• Byzantine Emperor (d. 1453
  )
• February 22 – Gilbert Kennedy, 1st Lord Kennedy, Scottish noble (d. 1489)
• March 6 – King John II of Castile (d. 1454)
• George Kastrioti, better known as Skanderbeg, Albanian national hero (d. 1468
  ) (probable date)
• October 18 – Pope Pius II (d. 1464)
• date unknown – Louis I, Count of Montpensier (d. 1486)
  • Cecilia of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (d. 1449)

1406

• January 28 – Guy XIV de Laval, French noble (d. 1486)
• July 11 – William, Margrave of Hachberg-Sausenberg, Margrave of Hachberg-Sausenberg (1428-1441) (d. 1482)
• Thomas de Ros, 8th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (d. 1430
  )
• date unknown
  • John, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (d. 1464)
  • Margaret, Countess of Vertus, French countess (d. 1466)
  • Martin of Aragon, Aragon infante (d. 1407)
  • Ulrich II, Count of Celje (d. 1456)
• probable date
  • Iancu de Hunedoara – governor of Hungary (d. 1456)

1407

• March 15 – Jacob, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1431-1453) (d. 1453)
• August 27 – Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Japanese shōgun (d. 1425)
• Leonello d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara, Italian noble (d. 1450
  )
• November 8 – Alain de Coëtivy, Catholic cardinal (d. 1474)
• date unknown
  • Thomas de Littleton, English judge (d. 1481)
  • Marguerite, bâtarde de France, French noble, illegitimate daughter of the King of France (d. 1458)
  • Demetrios Palaiologos, Byzantine prince (d. 1470)
  • Lorenzo Valla, Italian humanist, philosopher, literary critic (d. 1457)

1408

• January 25 – Katharina of Hanau, German countess regent (d. 1460)
• John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel (d. 1435
  )
• March 25 – Agnes of Baden, Countess of Holstein-Rendsburg, German noble (d. 1473)
• Jadwiga of Lithuania, Polish princess (d. 1431
  )
• April 23 – John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford, English noble (d. 1462)
• May 22 – Annamacharya, Indian mystic saint composer (d. 1503)
• October 1 or 1409 – Karl Knutsson, King of Sweden (d. 1470)

1409

• January 16 – René of Anjou, king of Naples (d. 1480)^[24]
• Jean II, Duke of Alençon, son of John I of Alençon and Marie of Brittany (d. 1476
  )
• March 12 – Isabella of Urgell, Duchess of Coimbra, Portuguese Duchess (d. 1459)
• September 13 – Joan of Valois, Duchess of Alençon, French duchess (d. 1432)
• October 7 – Elizabeth of Luxembourg (d. 1442)
• October 21 – Alessandro Sforza, Italian condottiero (d. 1473)
• date unknown – Bernardo Rossellino, Florentine sculptor and architect

Deaths

1400

• January 7
  • Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, English politician (executed) (b. 1374)
  • John Montagu, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English earl (executed) (b. 1350)
• Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester, English politician (executed) (b. 1373
  )
• January 16 – John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter, English politician (executed)
• February 14 – King Richard II of England, (probably murdered) (b. 1367)
• April 21 – John Wittlebury, English politician (b. 1333)
• April 23 – Aubrey de Vere, 10th Earl of Oxford, third son of John de Vere (b. 1338)
• April 28 – Baldus de Ubaldis, Italian jurist (b. 1327)
• Frederick I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, rival King of the Romans
• June 17 – Jan of Jenštejn, Archbishop of Prague (b. 1348)
• October 25 – Geoffrey Chaucer, English poet (b. c. 1343)^[25]
• November 8 – Peter of Aragon, Aragonese infante (b. 1398)
• Margravine of Meissen (b. 1355
  )
• November – Tarabya of Ava (b. 1368)
• December – Archibald the Grim, Scottish magnate (b. 1328)
• date unknown –
  Narayana Pandit, Indian mathematician (b. 1340
  )

• January 19 – Robert Bealknap, British justice
• March – William Sawtrey, English Lollard martyr (burned at the stake)
• Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick (b. 1338
  )
• May 25 – Queen Maria of Sicily (b. 1363)
• September 14 – Dobrogost of Nowy Dwór, Polish bishop (b. 1355)
• October – Anabella Drummond, queen of Scotland
• John Charleton, 4th Baron Cherleton (b. 1362
  )
• October 20 – Klaus Störtebeker, German pirate
• November 25 – King Tarabya of Ava (b. 1368)
• date unknown – Andronikos Asen Zaccaria, Baron of Chalandritsa and Arcadia, Grand Constable of Achaea

1402

• March 26 – David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay, heir to the throne of Scotland (b. 1378)^[26]
• May 3 – João Anes, Archbishop of Lisbon
• June 26 – Giovanni I Bentivoglio, Ruler of Bologna (b. 1358)
• July 13 – Jianwen Emperor of China (b. 1377)
• August 1 – Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of King Edward III of England (b. 1341)
• September 3 – Gian Galeazzo Visconti, first Duke of Milan (b. 1351)
• date unknown
  • Empress Ma (Jianwen) of China (b. 1378)
  • Hywel Sele, Welsh nobleman

1403

• Ottoman Sultan (b. 1354
  )
• April 27 – Maria of Bosnia, Countess of Helfenstein (b. 1335)
• Zeta
• May 10 – Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster, spouse of John of Gaunt
• May 12 – William de Lode, English prior
• July 21 (at the Battle of Shrewsbury)
  • Sir Walter Blount, English soldier, standard-bearer of Henry IV (in battle)
  • Edmund Stafford, 5th Earl of Stafford, English soldier (in battle)
  • Henry 'Hotspur' Percy
    , English rebel (in battle)
• July 23 – Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester, English rebel (executed) (b. 1343)
• date unknown – Vukosav Nikolić, Bosnian nobleman (in battle)
• probable date –
  Hajji Zayn al-Attar
  , Persian physician

1404

• Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1342
  )
• September 14 – Albert IV, Duke of Austria (b. 1377)
• September 27 – William of Wykeham, English bishop and statesman (b. 1320)
• October 1 – Pope Boniface IX (b. 1356)
• Marie Valois, French princess (b. 1344
  )
• December 13 – Albert I, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1336)
• date unknown – Eleanor of Arborea, ruler of Sardinia (b. 1350)

1405

• January 12 – Eleanor Maltravers, English noblewoman (b. 1345)
• Turco-Mongol monarch and conqueror (b. 1336
  )
• March 16 – Margaret III, Countess of Flanders (b. 1350)
• April 19 – Thomas West, 1st Baron West (b. 1335)
• May 29 – Philippe de Mézières, advisor to Charles V of France
• June 8
  • Thomas de Mowbray, 4th Earl of Norfolk, English rebel, executed in York (b. 1385)
  • Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York, executed in York (b. c.1350)
• c. July 20 – Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan, the "Wolf of Badenoch", fourth son of King Robert II of Scotland (b. 1343)^[27]
• probable – Jean Froissart, French chronicler (b. 1337)

1406

• January 6 – Roger Walden, English bishop
• March 17 – Ibn Khaldun, African Arab historian (b. 1332)
• April 4 – King Robert III of Scotland (b. 1337)^[28]
• May 4 – Coluccio Salutati, Chancellor of Florence (b. 1331)
• July 15 – William, Duke of Austria
• John de Sutton V (b. 1380
  )
• Cyprian, Metropolitan of Moscow
• November 1 – Joanna, Duchess of Brabant (b. 1322)
• November 6 – Pope Innocent VII (b. 1339)
• December 25 – King Henry III of Castile (b. 1379)
• probable date – Tokhtamysh, khan of the Golden Horde

1407

• February 9 – William I, Margrave of Meissen (b. 1343)
• February 16 – Abdallah Fakhr al-Din, religious leader
• March 7 – Francesco I Gonzaga, ruler of Mantua
• Olivier de Clisson, French soldier (b. 1326
  )
• July – Empress Xu (Ming dynasty), Chinese Empress (b. 1362)
• November 23 – Louis I, Duke of Orléans, brother of Charles VI of France (murdered) (b. 1372)
• date unknown
  • Pero López de Ayala, Spanish soldier (b. 1332)
  • Kolgrim, Norse Greenlander and alleged sorcerer

1408

• February 19 – Thomas Bardolf, 5th Baron Bardolf, English rebel (in battle)
• February 20 – Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English rebel (in battle) (b. 1341)^[29]
• April – Miran Shah, son of Timur the Lame (b. 1366)
• April 10 or April 11 – Elizabeth le Despenser, English noblewoman
• May 24 – Taejo of Joseon, ruler of Korea (b. 1335)
• shōgun (b. 1358
  )
• September 15 – Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent (b. 1384)
• Byzantine Emperor (b. 1370
  )
• Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans
• date unknown –
  Coptic Pope Matthew I of Alexandria^[30]

• May 13 – Jan of Tarnów, Polish nobleman
• May 22 – Blanche of England, sister of King Henry V (b. 1392)
• July 25 – King Martin I of Sicily (b. 1374)
• September 13 – Isabella of Valois, French princess and queen of England (b. 1387)^[31]
• date unknown – Thomas Merke, English bishop
• probable –
  Edmund Mortimer, English rebel (b. 1376
  )