1473

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1440s  1450s  1460s  – 1470s –  1480s  1490s  1500s
Years:	1470 1471 1472 – 1473 – 1474 1475 1476

Year 1473 (MCDLXXIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.

Births

• February 19 – Nicolaus Copernicus, astronomer and mathematician (d. 1543)
• March 17 – King James IV of Scotland (d. 1513)
• 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)
• September 24 – Georg von Frundsberg, German Knight and landowner (d. 1528)
• October 26 – Friedrich of Saxony (d. 1510)
• date unknown – Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, Tudor politician (d. 1555)
• probable
  • Jean Lemaire de Belges, Walloon poet and historian (d. 1525)
  • Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales, only son of Richard III of England (d. 1484)

Deaths

• January 24 – Conrad Paumann, German composer (b. c. 1410)
• February 23 – Arnold, Duke of Gelderland (b. 1410)
• April – Alessandro Sforza, condottiero
• May 8 – John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English politician (b. 1420)
• July 10 – James II of Cyprus (b. c. 1440)
• December 24 – John Cantius, Polish scholar and theologian (b. 1390)
• date unknown
  • Jean Jouffroy, French prelate and diplomat (b. c. 1412)
  • Hosokawa Katsumoto, Japanese nobleman (b. 1430)
  • Nicholas I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1448)
  • Yamana Sōzen, Japanese daimyo and monk (b. 1404)
• probable – Patriarch Gennadios II of Constantinople (b. c. 1400)