What Happened in August 1464

Historical Events

  • Aug 30 Pietro Barbo elected to succeed Pope Pius II as Pope Paul II

Famous Deaths

Cosimo de' Medici (1389-1464)

Aug 1 Italian banker, de facto ruler of Florence and patron of the arts, dies at 74

  • Aug 11 Nicholas van Cusa, philosopher/bishop of Brixen, dies
  • Aug 15 Pius II [Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini], Italian Pope (1458-64), (Commentaries - only biography by a reigning Pope), dies at 58
  • Aug 17 Nikolaus von Cusa, German theologist/mathematician/philosopher, dies