1487

Events
 August – Bartolomeu Dias leaves Lisbon on his voyage to the Cape of Good Hope.

Date unknown
 Aztec emperor Ahuitzotl dedicates the Great Temple Pyramid of Tenochtitlan with thousands of human sacrifices.

Births
 February 7 – Queen Dangyeong, Korean royal consort (d. 1557)
 February 8 – Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1550)
 February 15 – Henry of the Palatinate, bishop of Utrecht (d. 1552)
 April 10 – William I, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg (d. 1559)
 July 5 – Johann Gramann, German theologian (d. 1541)
 July 16 – Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter (d. 1530)
 July 17 – Ismail I, Shah of Persia (d. 1524)
 August 27 – Anna of Brandenburg, Duchess of Schleswig and Holstein (d. 1514)
 September 10 – Pope Julius III (d. 1555)
 October 5 – Ludwig of Hanau-Lichtenberg, German nobleman (d. 1553)
 November 14 – John III of Pernstein, Bohemian land-owner, Governor of Moravia and Count of Kladsko (d. 1548)

 Deaths 
 March 21 – Nicholas of Flüe, Swiss hermit and saint (b. 1417)
 June 16 – John de la Pole, 1st Earl of Lincoln (b. c. 1463)
 June 26 – John Argyropoulos, philosopher
 July 16 – Charlotte, Queen of Cyprus (b. 1436)
 September 9 – Chenghua Emperor of China (b. 1447)
 September 14 – Mara Branković, Serbian princess (b. 1416) 
 September 30 – John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1400)
 October 22 – Antonio Bettini, religious writer (b. 1396)
 date unknown
 William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel (b. 1417)
 Tlacaelel, high priest of Tenochtitlán (b. 1397)