1508

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Year 1508 (MDVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

Events

= January–March =

January 24 – Maximilian, King of the Romans, requests permission to march to Rome through Venetian territory, but is denied and begins his Italienzug.
February 2 – During the Glinski rebellion, Lithuanian noble Mykolas Glinskis attacks Grodno (now in Belarus) and decapitates Jan Zabrzeziński, the top ally of Grand Duke Alexander.{{cite book |last1=Jankowski |first1=Czesław |title=Powiat oszmiański: materjały do dziejów ziemi i ludzi |date=1897 |publisher=Ksiȩg. K. Grendyszyńskiego |page=9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6c4MAAAAYAAJ&dq=Micha%C5%82+Gli%C5%84ski+Jan+Zabrzezi%C5%84ski+Grodno+%222+lutego+1508%22&pg=PA9 |access-date=8 July 2023 |language=pl}}{{cite book |last1=Reddaway |first1=W.F. |last2=Penson |first2=J.H. |last3=Halecki |first3=O. |last4=Dyboski |first4=R. |title=The Cambridge History of Poland |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-001-28802-4 |page=301 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N883AAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA301 |access-date=8 July 2023 |language=en}}
February 4 – Maximilian, King of the Romans, proclaims himself Holy Roman Emperor at the Italian city of Trento, after having been blocked by Venice from traveling to Rome to be crowned by Pope Julius II.{{cite book |last1=Hollegger |first1=Manfred |title=Maximilian I.: Herrscher und Mensch einer Zeitenwende |date=22 September 2005 |publisher=Kohlhammer Verlag |isbn=978-3-17-023247-1 |page=189 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7Ip4DwAAQBAJ&dq=%E2%80%9E4.+Februar+1508%E2%80%9C+Maximilian,+Heiliges+R%C3%B6misches+Reich,+Trient&pg=PA189 |access-date=8 July 2023 |language=de}}{{cite book |last1=DeVries |first1=Kelly |last2=Rogers |first2=Clifford J. |last3=France |first3=John |title=Journal of Medieval Military History: Volume XX |date=21 June 2022 |publisher=Boydell & Brewer |isbn=978-1-78327-718-6 |page=213 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dj52EAAAQBAJ |language=en}}
February 20 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, attacks the Republic of Venice and sack Ampezzo the next day.{{cite web |last1=Mead Skjelver |first1=Daniel |title=Maximilian I Holy Roman emperor |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maximilian-I-Holy-Roman-emperor |website=Encyclopedias Britannica |access-date=5 May 2021}}
February 28 – Louis V becomes the new prince elector of the Palatinate upon the death of his father, Philip.{{cite book |last1=Frensdorff |first1=Ferdinand |last2=Lexer |first2=Matthias |last3=Roth |first3=Friedrich |title=Die chroniken der schwäbischen städte. Augsburg |date=1894 |publisher=S. Hirzel |page=457 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wLayJFUkv6IC&dq=Kurf%C3%BCrst+von+der+Pfalz+ludwig+v+%E2%80%9E28.+Februar+1508%E2%80%9C&pg=PA457 |access-date=8 July 2023 |language=de}}
March 2 – The Republic of Venice defeats Maximilian I in the Battle of Cadore.
March 5 – La Cassaria by Ludovico Ariosto, the first Italian language comedy, is premiered at Ferrara.{{cite book |last1=Borsellino |first1=Nino |last2=Aurigemma |first2=Marcello |title=La Letteratura italiana: Cinquecento dal Rinascimento alla controriforma |date=1970 |publisher=Laterza |page=4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BiRdAAAAMAAJ&q=La%20Cassaria%20Ludovico%20Ariosto%20ferrara%20%225%20marzo%201508%22 |access-date=8 July 2023 |language=it}}
March 13 – The oldest annual foot race in Europe, the "Red Hose Race", is run for the first time, taking place in Scotland at Carnwath, Lanarkshire.{{cite book |last1=Green |first1=Martin |title=Curious Customs: A Guide to Local Customs and Festivals Throughout the British Isles |date=1993 |publisher=Impact Books |isbn=978-1-874687-19-1 |page=107 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aDXgAAAAMAAJ&q=%20%2213%20march%201508%22 |access-date=9 July 2023 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=History |url=http://clan-lockhart.org/history/ |website=Clan Lockhart Society |access-date=9 July 2023}}
March 18 – Wilhelm IV becomes the new Duke of Bavaria upon the death of his father, Albrecht IV.{{cite book |last1=Sattler |first1=Maximilian V. |title=Lehrbuch der bayerischen Geschichte|date=1868 |publisher=Lindauer |page=213 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wk5BAAAAcAAJ&dq=wilhelm+iv+%2218.+M%C3%A4rz+1508%22&pg=PA213 |access-date=9 July 2023 |language=de}}
March 22
Working from the house of Piero di Braccio Martelli at Florence, Leonardo da Vinci begins writing his "collection without order" of his scientific discoveries.{{cite book |last1=da Vinci |first1=Leonardo |last2=MacCurdy |first2=Edward |title=The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci |date=1955 |publisher=Braziller |location=New York |page=58 |url=https://archive.org/details/noteboo00leon/page/58/mode/2up?q=1508 |access-date=9 July 2023}}
Ferdinand II of Aragon appoints Florentine merchant Amerigo Vespucci to the post of Chief Navigator of Spain.{{cite book |last1=Arciniegas |first1=Germán |last2=Pforzheimer |first2=Carl Howard |title=Amerigo and the New World : the life & times of Amerigo Vespucci |date=1955 |publisher=Knopf |location=New York |page=273 |url=https://archive.org/details/amerigonewworld00arci/page/272/mode/2up?q=march |access-date=9 July 2023}}

= April–June =

April 23 – Prince Mihnea cel Rău, son of Vlad the Impaler, becomes the Voivode of Wallachia, with a palace at Târgoviște (now in Romania), upon the death of his cousin Radu IV the Great.
May 8 – Italian renaissance artist Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni of Florence signs a contract with the Vatican to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling, in return for a promised fee of 3,000 gold ducats (equivalent in 2023 to more than U.S. $600,000).Yvonne Paris, Michelangelo: 1475–1564 (Parragon, 2009)
June 4 – The coronation of Prince Lajos as the designated successor to his father, King Vladislaus II of Hungary, takes place in Székesfehérvár.
June 6 – Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I signs a humiliating armistice with the Republic of Venice, which for the moment stops any of his further plans for Italy.{{cite journal |last1=Rubinstein |first1=Nicolai |title=Firenze e il problema della politica imperiale in Italia al tempo di Massimiliano I |journal=Archivio Storico Italiano |date=1958 |volume=116 |issue=1 (417) |pages=5–35 |jstor=26250402 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26250402 |access-date=9 July 2023 |issn=0391-7770}}

= July–September =

July 23 – Upon the death of his father, King Oxlahuh-Tz'i, Hun-Iqʼ becomes one of the two kings of Guatemala's Kaqchikel Maya civilization. Hun-Iqʼ reigns jointly with King Kablahuh-Tihax until the latter's death on February 4.Linda Schele and Peter Mathews, The Code of Kings: The Language of Seven Maya Temples and Tombs (Simon & Schuster, 1999) p.297
July 27 – The process of removing the former layers of paint on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel is completed, and Michelangelo begins the next phase of marking the surface for painting.{{cite book |last1=Pfisterer |first1=Ulrich |title=The Sistine Chapel: Paradise in Rome |date=2018 |publisher=Getty Publications |isbn=978-1-60606-553-2 |page=49 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CnFlDwAAQBAJ&q=%2227%20july%22 |access-date=9 July 2023 |language=en}}
July 31 – The Emperor of Ethiopia, Na'od, dies in battle. His son Lebna Dengel takes on the regnal name of Dawit II, and becomes the new emperor starting on August 11.{{cite book |last1=Wright |first1=William |title=Catalogue of the Ethiopic Manuscripts in the British Museum Acquired Since the Year 1847 |date=1877 |publisher=British Museum |page=vii |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UmRvmDoKPcAC&dq=dawit+13+august+1508&pg=PR7 |access-date=9 July 2023 |language=en}}
August 12 – The Spanish settlement of Puerto Rico begins when Juan Ponce de León lands on the island.{{cite book |title=Puerto Rico, U.S.A. |date=1980 |publisher=Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration |page=25 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4JdtAAAAMAAJ&dq=caparra+%22august+12+1508%22&pg=PA25 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=en}} Upon his arrival, Ponce is welcomed by Agüeybaná I, the island's leader a Cacique of the Taíno people.{{cite book |last1=Altman |first1=Ida |last2=Wheat |first2=David |title=The Spanish Caribbean and the Atlantic World in the Long Sixteenth Century |date=1 June 2019 |publisher=U of Nebraska Press |isbn=978-0-8032-9957-3 |page=27 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DRGQDwAAQBAJ&dq=welcomed+Ag%C3%BCeyban%C3%A1+I+Juan+Ponce+de+Le%C3%B3n&pg=PA27 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=en}} The Spanish explorer soon settles and founds the city of Caparra, near what is now the town of Guaynabo.{{cite web |title=Caparra Archeological Site |url=https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/american_latino_heritage/caparra_archeological_site.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150612072903/http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/american_latino_heritage/Caparra_Archeological_Site.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 12, 2015 |website=www.nps.gov |access-date=10 July 2023}}
September 11 – England is left without a Roman Catholic Cardinal protector when Cardinal Galeotto Franciotti della Rovere dies suddenly.{{cite book |last1=Wilkie |first1=William E. |title=The Cardinal Protectors of England: Rome and the Tudors Before the Reformation |date=11 July 1974 |page=35|publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-20332-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=viA9AAAAIAAJ&dq=Galeotto+Franciotti+della+Rovere+Cardinal+protector+%2211+september+1508%22&pg=PA35 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=en}} England's King Henry VII dies seven months later before the monarchy and the Pope can agree on a new cardinal protector. The King's successor, Henry VIII, later abolishes the office entirely after Lorenzo Campeggio dies in the course of the English Reformation and the creation of the Church of England.

= October–December =

October 8 – An inconclusive peace treaty is signed to end the third of the Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars.Rimvydas Petrauskas and Jūratė Kiaupienė, Lietuvos istorija. Nauji horizontai: dinastija, visoumenė, valstybė (The History of Lithuania, New Horizons: Dynasty, Unification, State) (Baltos Lankos, 2009), p. 466
October 24 – King Louis XII of France convenes court at the Parlement de Normandie building in Rouen.{{cite journal |last1=Salet |first1=Francis |title=Le Palais de Justice de Rouen. Ouvrage collectif publié par les soins du Ministère de la Justice et du département de la Seine-Maritime |journal=Bulletin Monumental |date=1980 |volume=138 |issue=1 |pages=107–108 |url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/bulmo_0007-473x_1980_num_138_1_5889_t1_0107_0000_2 |access-date=10 July 2023}}
November 1 – At the age of 16, Prince Wolfgang of the House of Ascania becomes the new ruler of the German principality of Anhalt-Köthen, succeeding his father Waldemar VI. In 1521, he will meet Martin Luther{{cite book |last1=Große |first1=W. |title=Fürst Wolfgang der Standhafte von Anhalt: Geschichtsbild zur 300jährigen Gedächtnisfeier des Augsburger Religionsfriedens |date=1855 |publisher=Baumgarten |page=32 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lWwAAAAAcAAJ&q=1521+luther |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=de}} and, in 1525, will introduce the Reformation to his principality, making Anhalt-Köthen only the second nation (after the Electorate of Saxony) to officially adopt Protestantism.
November 29 – Astronomer Mikołaj Kopernik of Poland is granted benefits by Pope Julius II in order to perform his work.{{cite book |last1=Gassendi |first1=Pierre |last2=Thill |first2=Olivier |title=The Life of Copernicus (1473-1543): The Man who Did Not Change the World |date=2002 |publisher=Xulon Press |isbn=978-1-59160-193-7 |pages=52–53 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9r0RfQtpU6AC&q=1508&pg=PA1 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=en}}
December 10 – The League of Cambrai is formed as an alliance against the Republic of Venice, between Pope Julius II, Louis XII of France, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Ferdinand II of Aragon.{{cite book|author=John Duncan Mackie|title=The Earlier Tudors, 1485-1558|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IPPjvveNsTQC&pg=PA155|date=31 December 1952|publisher=Clarendon Press|isbn=978-0-19-821706-0|pages=155}}
December 29 – Battle of Dabul: Portuguese forces, under the command of Francisco de Almeida, attack Khambhat.
December – Michelangelo begins painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling in the Holy See of Rome, on a commission by Pope Julius II (signed May 10).{{cite book|author=Leo Steinberg|title=Michelangelo's Painting: Selected Essays|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lR2jDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA68|date=31 December 2019|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-48243-9|pages=3368}}

Births

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February 17 – Bernardo Salviati, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1568){{cite web |title=SALVIATI, Bernardo |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/bernardo-salviati_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/ |website=www.treccani.it |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=it-IT}}
March 6 – Mirza Nasir-ud-Din Muhammad, emperor of the Mughal Empire (d. 1556){{cite book |last1=Burke |first1=S. M. |title=Akbar, the Greatest Mogul |date=1989 |publisher=Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers |page=10 |isbn=978-0-8364-2513-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nEtuAAAAMAAJ&q=babur+padishah+%226+march+1508%22 |access-date=8 July 2023 |language=en}}
April 3 – Jean Daurat, French writer and scholar (d. 1588)
April 5 – Ercole II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, Italian noble (d. 1559){{cite book |title=Archivio storico lombardo |date=1914 |publisher=Società storica lombarda. |page=721 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wsEKAAAAIAAJ&dq=Ercole+II+d%27Este+%224+aprile+1508%22&pg=PA721 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=it}}
April 23 – Georg Sabinus, German writer (d. 1560){{cite book |last1=Becker-Cantarino |first1=Barbara |title=Daphnis |date=August 2004 |publisher=Rodopi |isbn=978-90-420-1831-0 |page=439 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4Ck-l647HeQC&q=%2223%20april%22 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=de}}
May 8 – Charles Wriothesley, English Officer of Arms (d. 1562){{cite book |last1=Stephen |first1=Leslie |last2=Lee |first2=Sir Sidney |title=The Dictionary of National Biography |date=1909 |publisher=Macmillan Company |page=1055 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6SI8AAAAIAAJ&dq=Charles+Wriothesley+%228+may+1508%22&pg=RA2-PA1055 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=en}}
June 8 or June 9 – Primož Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer who lays the foundations for the Slovenian written language (d. 1586){{cite journal |last1=Volgar |first1=Abhilash |title=PRIMOŽ TRUBAR IN ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND LEXICS I |journal=Locutio |date=May 30, 2008 |volume=11 |issue=42 |url=https://www.locutio.si/index.php?no=42&clanek=990 |access-date=10 July 2023|language=sl}}
June 12 – Hedwig of Münsterberg-Oels, German noble (d. 1531){{cite book |last1=Pohl |first1=Dieter |title=Die Grafschaft Glatz (Schlesien) in Darstellungen und Quellen: eine erweiterte Bibliographie |date=1994 |publisher=D. Pohl |isbn=978-3-927830-10-3 |page=203 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NvnfAAAAMAAJ&q=%2212%20juni%201508%22 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=de}}
June 13 – Alessandro Piccolomini, Italian humanist and philosopher from Siena (d. 1579){{cite book|author1=Virginia Trimble|author2=Thomas R. Williams|author3=Katherine Bracher|title=Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t-BF1CHkc50C&pg=PA904|date=18 September 2007|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-0-387-30400-7|pages=904}}
June 29 – Balthasar of Hanau-Münzenberg, German nobleman (d. 1534){{cite book |title=Mittheilungen des Hanauer Bezirksvereins für Hessische Geschichte und Landeskunde |date=1876 |publisher=König |page=210 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1XppAAAAcAAJ&dq=Balthasar+%2229+juni+1508%22&pg=PA210 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=de}}
September 19 – Maria Paleologa, Italian noblewoman (d. 1530)
September 23 – Simon Sulzer, Swiss theologian (d. 1585){{cite book |last1=Linder |first1=Gottlieb |title=Simon Sulzer und sein Antheil an der Reformation im Lande Baden: Sowie an den Unionsbestrebungen |date=1890 |publisher=C. Winter |location=Heidelberg |page=11 |url=https://archive.org/details/simonsulzerunds01lindgoog/page/n22/mode/2up |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=German}}
September 25 – Francisco Mendoza de Bobadilla, Spanish Catholic cardinal (d. 1566){{cite web |title=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of December 19, 1544 |url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1544.htm#Mendoza |website=cardinals.fiu.edu |access-date=10 July 2023}}
November 23 – Francis, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, youngest son of Henry the Middle (d. 1549){{cite book |last1=Fleischner |first1=Johann Michael |title=Die Reichsversammlung zu Augsburg bei der Ablesung und Uebergabe des evangelischen Glaubensbekenntnisses: Zur 300 jährigen Gedächtnißfeier |date=1830 |publisher=Beck |page=119 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XhZBAAAAcAAJ&dq=Franz+%2223+november+1508%22&pg=PA119 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=de}}
November 26 – Cristofano Gherardi, Italian painter (d. 1556){{cite book |last1=Bénézit |first1=Emmanuel |title=Dictionary of artists |date=2006 |volume=6|publisher=Gründ |location=Paris |isbn=978-2-7000-3070-9 |page=104 |url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofarti0006bene/page/104/mode/2up?q=%22gherardi%22 |access-date=10 July 2023}}
November 30 – Andrea Palladio, Italian architect (d. 1580){{cite book|author=Georgian Group (London, England)|title=Visit to the Veneto 21st-29th September, 1957: Programme|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CKZMAAAAYAAJ|year=1957|page=1}}
December 8 – Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (d. 1555){{cite web |title=Regnier Gemma Frisius |url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Gemma_Frisius/ |website=Maths History |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=en}}
December 21 – Thomas Naogeorgus, German playwright (d. 1563){{cite book |last1=Brown |first1=Virginia |title=Catalogus Translationum Et Commentariorum |date=2011 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-8132-1729-1 |page=40 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dsiKf4ZfKaUC&dq=Thomas+Naogeorgus+%2221+december+1508%22&pg=PA40 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=en}}
December 24 – Pietro Carnesecchi, Italian humanist (d. 1567){{cite book |last1=Ortolani |first1=Oddone |title=Pietro Carnesecchi: con estratti dagli atti del processo del Santo officio |date=1963 |publisher=F. Le Monnier |page=1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dXZIAAAAMAAJ&q=Pietro+Carnesecchi+%2224+dicembre+1508%22 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=it}}
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Livio Agresti, Italian painter (d. 1580){{cite web |title=AGRESTI, Livio, detto Il Ricciutello |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/agresti-livio-detto-il-ricciutello_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ |website=www.treccani.it |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=it-IT}}
Matsunaga Hisahide, Japanese daimyo (d. 1577)
Marin Držić, Croatian playwright (d. 1567){{cite web |title=Držić, Marin |url=https://www.enciklopedija.hr/clanak/drzic-marin |website=www.enciklopedija.hr |access-date=10 July 2023|language=hr}}
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Jane Seymour, third queen of Henry VIII of England (d. 1537){{cite book |last1=Norrie |first1=Aidan |last2=Harris |first2=Carolyn |last3=Laynesmith |first3=J. L. |last4=Messer |first4=Danna R. |last5=Woodacre |first5=Elena |title=Tudor and Stuart Consorts: Power, Influence, and Dynasty |date=20 July 2022 |publisher=Springer Nature |isbn=978-3-030-95197-9 |page=80 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eOF8EAAAQBAJ&dq=jane+seymour+%221508%22&pg=PA80 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=en}}

Deaths

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February – Robert Lauder of the Bass, governor of Berwick-on-Tweed (b. c. 1440)
February 4 – Conrad Celtes, German humanist (b. 1459){{cite book |last1=Flood |first1=John |title=Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire: A Bio-bibliographical Handbook |date=8 September 2011 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |isbn=978-3-11-091274-6 |page=303 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B1ujbUq3NOcC&dq=Conrad+Celtes+%224+february+1508%22&pg=PA303 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=en}}
February 16 – Giovanni II Bentivoglio, tyrant of Bologna (b. 1443){{cite book |title=Archivio storico lombardo |date=1984 |publisher=Società storica lombarda. |page=384 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qrjpqyl9Sn0C&q=%2216%20febbraio%201508%22 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=it}}
February 27 – James, Duke of Rothesay, heir to the throne of Scotland (b. 1507){{cite book |last1=Perry |first1=Maria |title=Sisters to the King: The Tumultuous Lives of Henry VIII's Sisters, Margaret of Scotland and Mary of France |date=1998 |publisher=André Deutsch |isbn=978-0-233-99004-0 |page=51 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OaxnAAAAMAAJ&q=%2227+february%22 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=en}}
February 28 – Philip, Elector Palatine (b. 1448){{cite book |title=Allgemeine deutsche Biographie |date=1888 |publisher=Duncker & Humblot |page=16 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lWpKAQAAIAAJ&dq=Philipp+%2228+februar+1508%22&pg=PA16 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=de}}
March 18 – Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1447){{cite book |last1=Silbernagl |first1=Isidor |title=Albrecht IV., der Weise, Herzog von Bayern, und seine Regierung: nach geschichtlichen Quellen verfasst |date=1857 |publisher=Deschler |page=103 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p2pBAAAAcAAJ&q=%2218%20marz%201508%22 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=de}}
March – Lourenço de Almeida, Portuguese explorer{{cite book |last1=Thomas |first1=David |last2=Chesworth |first2=John A. |title=Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 7 Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and South America (1500-1600): Volume 7. Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and South America (1500-1600) |date=17 August 2015 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-29848-4 |page=769 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nohjCgAAQBAJ&dq=Louren%C3%A7o+de+Almeida+%22march+1508%22&pg=PA769 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=en}}
April 10 – Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, Italian condottiero (b. 1472){{cite book |last1=Filippini |first1=Francesco |title=Raffaello a Bologna |date=1925 |publisher=Officine grafiche reggiane |page=7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3B5HAQAAIAAJ&dq=Guidobaldo+da+Montefeltro+%2211+aprile+1508%22&pg=PA7-IA1 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=it}}
May 21 – Giles Daubeney, 1st Baron Daubeney (b. 1451){{cite book |last1=Wedgwood |first1=Josiah Clement |title=History of Parliament ... 1439-1509: Biographies of the Members of the Commons House |date=1936 |publisher=H.M. Stationery Office |page=260 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xceHAAAAMAAJ&q=%2221%20may%201508%22 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=en}}
May 27 – Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (b. 1452){{cite book |last1=Santoro |first1=Caterina |title=Gli Sforza |date=1994 |publisher=Editori Associati |isbn=978-88-7819-546-2 |page=339 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MlVoAAAAMAAJ&q=%2227+maggio%22 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=it}}
June 6 – Ercole Strozzi, Italian poet (b. 1473){{cite book |last1=Vita |first1=Alessandro del |title=Amori Dei Borgia |date=1958 |publisher=Arezzo |page=142 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GnGRMxMHznMC&q=%20%226%20giugno%201508%22 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=it}}
June 15 – Bernard Stewart, 4th Lord of Aubigny (b. c. 1452){{cite book |last1=Office |first1=Great Britain Public Record |title=Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII. |date=1920 |publisher=H.M. Stationery Office |page=367 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oY1IAAAAYAAJ&dq=bernard+stewart+%2215+june+1508%22&pg=PA367 |access-date=10 July 2023 |language=en}}
July 28 or July 29 – Robert Blackadder, Bishop of Glasgow{{cite book |last1=Campbell |first1=William M. |title=The first Archbishop of Glasgow; Part II |date=1944 |publisher=SCHS |page=140 |url=https://archive.org/details/rschsv08p2campbell/page/140/mode/2up?q=1508 |access-date=11 July 2023}}
July 31 – Na'od, Emperor of Ethiopia (in battle){{cite book |last1=Budge |first1=E.A. Wallis |title=History Of Ethiopia Nubia And Abyssinia |date=1828 |publisher=Methuen & Co. Ltd. |location=London |page=323 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.499166/page/n407/mode/2up?q=july |access-date=11 July 2023}}
August 3 – Raphael de Mercatellis, abbot and bibliophile (b. 1437)
September 23 – Beatrice of Naples, queen consort of Hungary (b. 1457){{cite book |title=Il Plutarco austriaco ossia Vite e ritratti di tutti i sovrani della casa d'Austria e dei più rinomati generali, uomini di stato, letterati ed artisti dell'impero austriaco del barone di Hormayr traduzione dal tedesco illustrata con note. Volume 1 |date=1823 |publisher=The Imperial Printing Director |location=Milan |page=154 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eZynTatv90cC&dq=Beatrice+di+Napoli+%2223+settembre+1508%22&pg=PA154 |access-date=11 July 2023 |language=it}}
October 10 – János Thurzó, Hungarian businessman (b. 1437){{cite book |last1=Wenzel |first1=Gusztáv |title=A fuggerek jelentosége Magyarország történetében |date=1882 |publisher=A.M. Tud. Akadémia Könyvkiadó-Hivatala |location=Budapest |page=21 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hh0-AAAAYAAJ&dq=Thurz%C3%B3+J%C3%A1nos+%221508.+okt%C3%B3ber+10.%22&pg=PA21 |access-date=11 July 2023 |language=hu}}
October 18 – Patrick Hepburn, 1st Earl of Bothwell, Lord High Admiral of Scotland{{cite book |last1=Paul |first1=James Balfour |title=The Scots Peerage |date=1905 |publisher=D. Douglas |page=152 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9lNmAAAAMAAJ&dq=Patrick+Hepburn+%2218+october+1508%22&pg=PA152 |access-date=11 July 2023 |language=en}}
October 23 – Edmund de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (b. 1446)
November 25 – Ursula of Brandenburg, Duchess of Münsterberg-Oels and Countess of Glatz (b. 1450){{cite book |last1=Mittelfranken |first1=Historischer Verein für |title=Jahresbericht des Historischen Vereins für Mittelfranken |date=1873 |publisher=Historischer Verein für Mittelfranken |page=106 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v5HcnBYfSekC&dq=Ursula+von+Brandenburg+%2225+november+1508%22&pg=PA106 |access-date=11 July 2023 |language=de}}
December 10 – René II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1451){{cite book |last1=Marichal |first1=Paul |title=René II, duc de Lorraine et les possessions de la maison d'Anjou dans le Maine |date=1909 |publisher=Imprimerie Fleury |page=36 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cqk5AQAAMAAJ |access-date=11 July 2023 |language=fr}}
December 16 – Henry the Younger of Stolberg, Stadtholder of Friesland (1506–1508) (b. 1467){{cite book |last1=Brückner |first1=Jörg |title=Zwischen Reichsstandschaft und Standesherrschaft: die Grafen zu Stolberg und ihr Verhältnis zu den Landgrafen von Thüringen und späteren Herzögen |date=2005 |publisher=Stekovics |isbn=978-3-89923-119-9 |page=202 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wOviAAAAMAAJ&q=%2216%20dezember%201508%22 |access-date=11 July 2023 |language=de}}
December 22 – Eric II, Duke of Mecklenburg (b. 1483)
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Isaac Abravanel, Portuguese statesman, philosopher and theologian (b. 1437){{cite book |last1=Netanyahu |first1=Benzion |title=Don Isaac Abravanel, Statesman & Philosopher |date=1998 |publisher=Cornell University Press |isbn=978-0-8014-8485-8 |page=209 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yae4D0NeLM0C&q=falls+within |access-date=11 July 2023 |language=en}}
Mahmud Khan (Moghul Khan), Khan of Tashkent{{cite book |last1=Allworth |first1=Edward A. |title=The Modern Uzbeks: From the Fourteenth Century to the Present: A Cultural History |date=1 September 2013 |publisher=Hoover Press |isbn=978-0-8179-8733-6 |page=56 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=beCoAAAAQBAJ&dq=Mahmud+Khan+%221508%22&pg=PA56 |access-date=11 July 2023 |language=en}}
Micheletto Corella, Valencian condottieri
Damkhat Reachea, emperor of Cambodia{{cite book |title=International Congress of Sociology 18th Nurember, 1958 |date=1961 |publisher=A. Hain |page=311 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8ftApWUTQikC&q=Damkhat+Reachea+%221508%22 |access-date=11 July 2023 |language=fr}}
Ahmad al-Wansharisi, North African Islamic jurist and theologian{{cite web |last1=Lagardère |first1=V. |title=al-Wans̲h̲arīsī |url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/al-wansharisi-COM_1337 |website=Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition |publisher=Brill |access-date=11 July 2023 |language=en |date=24 April 2012}}

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