Famous Deaths Happened In 1440

Mar 09 In the year 1440 death of st Frances of Rome, Italian nun (b. 1384)  

Sep 21 Frederik I van Hohenzollern, ruler Brandenburg (1417-40), dies at 68 in the year 1440.  

Sep 30 In the year 1440 death of reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn, English soldier and politician  

Oct 26 On this day in history death of gilles de Rais, French marshal, killer of 140 children, hanged  

Dec 22 On this day in history death of bluebeard, pirate, executed  

Jan 22 Ivan III, the Great, Russian czar (1462-1505)/conquered Lithuania was born in the year 1440.  

Feb 13 Hartmann Schedel, German physician/humanist/historian was born in the year 1440.  

Feb 22 On this day in history birth of ladislaus V Posthumus, King of Hungary/Bohemia