Calendar year
Year 1473 (MCDLXXIII ) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar .
Nicolaus Copernicus
February 19 – Nicolaus Copernicus , Polish astronomer and mathematician (d. 1543 )[ 3]
February 25 – Al-Mutawakkil Yahya Sharaf ad-Din , Imam of the Zaidi state in Yemen (d. 1555 )
March 3 – Asakura Sadakage , 9th head of the Asakura clan (d. 1512 )
March 14 – Reinhard IV, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg (1500–1512) (d. 1512 )
March 16 – Henry IV, Duke of Saxony (1539–1541) (d. 1541 )
March 17 – King James IV of Scotland , King of Scots from 11 June 1488 to his death (d. 1513 )[ 4]
April 2 – John Corvinus , Hungarian noble (d. 1504 )
July 4 – Matilda of Hesse , German noblewoman (d. 1505 )[ 5]
July 6 – James III of Cyprus , son of James II of Cyprus and Catherine Cornaro , king of Cyprus (d. 1474 )
July – Maddalena de' Medici , Italian noble (d. 1528 )[ 6]
August 14 – Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury (d. 1541 )
August 17 – Richard, Duke of York , one of the Princes in the Tower (d. 1483 )[ 7]
August 25 – Margaret of Münsterberg , Duchess consort and regent of Anhalt (d. 1530 )
September 2 – Ercole Strozzi , Italian poet (d. 1508 )[ 8]
September 23 – Thomas Lovett III , High Sheriff of Northamptonshire (d. 1542 )
September 24 – Georg von Frundsberg , German knight and landowner (d. 1528 )
October 26 – Friedrich of Saxony , Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (d. 1510 )
date unknown – Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk , English Tudor politician (d. 1555 )
probable
January 24 – Conrad Paumann , German composer (b. c. 1410)
February 23 – Arnold, Duke of Guelders (b. 1410 )
April 3 – Alessandro Sforza , Italian condottiero (b. 1409 )
April 15 – Yamana Sōzen , Japanese daimyō and monk (b. 1404 )
May 8 – John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire , English politician (b. 1420 )
June 6 – Hosokawa Katsumoto , Japanese nobleman (b. 1430 )
June 28 – John Talbot, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury , English nobleman (b. 1448 )[ 9]
July 10 – James II of Cyprus (b. c. 1440 )
November 26 – Diego Fernández de la Cueva, 1st Viscount of Huelma
October – Contessina de' Bardi , politically active Florentine woman (b. 1390 )
December 24 – John Cantius , Polish scholar and theologian (b. 1390 )
date unknown
probable – Marina Nani , Venetian dogaressa (b. c. 1400 )
probable – Patriarch Gennadios II of Constantinople (b. c. 1400 )
^ Selcuk Aksin Somel (March 23, 2010). The A to Z of the Ottoman Empire . Scarecrow Press. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-4617-3176-4 .
^ Carter, F. W. (2006). Trade and Urban Development in Poland: An Economic Geography of Cracow, from Its Origins to 1795 . Cambridge University Press. p. 364 . ISBN 9780521024389 .
^ "Copernicus born" . History.com . A&E Television Networks . February 9, 2010. Retrieved June 18, 2019 .
^ Lynch, Michael, ed. (February 24, 2011). The Oxford Companion to Scottish history . Oxford University Press. p. 352. ISBN 9780199693054 .
^ Krefeld Immigrants and Their Descendants . Vol. 13–17. Links Genealogy Publications. 1996. p. 59.
^ Grzonka, Michael (November 7, 2016). Luther and His Times . Lulu Press, Inc . p. 58. ISBN 9781365515897 .
^ Arlene Okerlund (2005). Elizabeth Wydeville: The Slandered Queen . Tempus. p. 154. ISBN 978-0-7524-3384-4 .
^ Giraldi, Lilio Gregorio (May 31, 2011). Grant, John N (ed.). Modern Poets . Harvard University Press . p. 336. ISBN 9780674055759 .
^ E. B. Pryde; D. E. Greenway; S. Porter; I. Roy (February 23, 1996). Handbook of British Chronology . Cambridge University Press. p. 482. ISBN 978-0-521-56350-5 .