Statistics for Celebrity Deaths 1400-1499

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Hint	Year	Answer	% Correct
Peasant girl who claims she was chosen by God to lead the French army	1431	Joan of Arc	82%
Inventor of mechanical movable-type printing press	1468	Johannes Gutenberg	80%
The king of England who won victory at Agincourt	1422	King Henry V	78%
The English king during the War of the Roses	1471	King Henry VI	78%
Voivode of Wallachia known as Dracula	1476-77	Vlad Tepes	78%
The author of The Canterbury Tales	1400	Geoffrey Chaucer	67%
Last king of the House of York and the last of the Plantagenet dynasty	1485	Richard III	64%
Unifier of the Aztec Empire of pre-Colombian Central America	1469	Montezuma I	44%
Nickname of the Portuguese explorer Prince Henry	1460	The Navigator	38%
Early Renaissance sculptor of the bronze David	1466	Donatello	36%
Czech theologian and philosopher who became a Church reformer	1415	Jan Hus	36%
Ruler of the Ottoman Empire who brought an end of all of the Roman Empire	1481	Mehmed II	36%
Italian / English explorer of Newfoundland	1498	John Cabot	29%
Painter active in Bruges who supposedly invented oil painting	1441	Jan van Eyck	27%
Design of the dome of the Florence Cathedral	1446	Filippo Brunelleschi	24%
Albanian military commander who led a rebellion against the Ottoman Empire	1468	Skanderbeg	22%
Chinese mariner, explorer and diplomat during early Ming dynasty	1433	Zheng He	20%
Leading Hungarian military and political figure of Wallachian ancestry	1456	John Hunyadi	16%
Queen of England and nominally Queen of France	1482	Margaret of Anjou	11%
Founder of the Inca Empire of South America	1472	Pachacuti	9%