Major Events
- Nov 10 Battle at Varna, Black Sea: Sultan Murad II beats crusaders
Born in 1444
- Jan 24 Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1476)
- Feb 17 Rudolphus Agricola [Roelof Huysman], Dutch humanist, scholar (De inventione dialectica), poet, and organist, born in Baflo, Groningen, the Hanseatic League (d. 1485) (alternate date 1443)
Who Died in 1444
- Mar 9 Leonardo Bruni, Italian humanist, statesman and historian (1st to divide history into Antiquity, Middle Ages, Modern), dies at about 74
- Apr 7 John Capreolus, French theologist (Libri IV), dies at about 50
- Apr 26 Robert Campin, first great master of Flemish and Early Netherlandish painting, dies at ~65
- May 20 Bernardino of Siena, Italian priest and Franciscan missionary, dies at 63
- May 27 John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English military leader (b. 1404)
More 1444 Deaths
Gregory I
Gregory XIII
Julius II
Julius III
Leo X
Pius V