February 3: Johannes Gutenberg, inventor of printing press with replaceable letters (b. 1398)
Alexander Home, 2nd Lord Home, (by 1468–1506), Scottish nobleman and soldier, Lord Chamberlain of Scotland
This chronicle, written in Latin, covers the time from the end of the reign of John II of Castile to the year 1481, including the reign of Henry IV of Castile; Henry IV’s war with Prince Alfonso; the War of the Castilian Succession; the consolidation of Castile and Aragon under Ferdinand and Isabella; and the signing of the Treaty of Alcáçovas.
Between 1423 and 1425 he married Eupheme Graham (before 1413–1468), daughter of Patrick Graham, de jure uxoris Earl of Strathearn, and Euphemia Stewart, Countess of Strathearn.
Bartholomäus van der Lake (died 1468) was a German clergyman and author of a chronicle of the city of Soest.
Bartolomeo Marchionni arrived circa 1468 at Lisbon as an agent to the Cambini.
Teodoro Paleologo di Montferrato, protonotary apostolic — cardinal-deacon of S. Teodoro (received the title on 27 April 1468), † 21 January 1484
Catherine of Saxony, Archduchess of Austria (1468–1524), daughter of Albert III, Duke of Saxony and wife of Sigismund, Archduke of Austria
In 1468, the castle was part of the estates granted by the Earl of Norfolk to William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke in exchange for lands in the east of England.
The island was pawned as dowry security in 1468, to the kingdom of Scotland, where members of the Sinclar family held the Earldom of Orkney for almost a century in the Late Middle Ages in fealty to the monarchs of Norway.
He became famous after his brilliant victory over Kazan tatars near Murom in 1468, where he was successful with an unexpected strike from the besieged city.
They were first described, during the reign of Emperor Ba'eda Maryam (r. 1468-1478), as inhabiting the region between Enderta (in Tigray province) and Lake Ashenge (Today in Tigray Region, formerly part of the Amhara province of Wollo), neighboring the Afars of the vassal Dankali Sultanate on the east.
In 1468 and 1471 he is mentioned as choirmaster of the boys at St. Aignan in Orléans.
His descendant Juana Enriquez (1425–February 13, 1468), was the second wife of John II of Aragon and the mother of Ferdinand II of Aragon.
Later, he became a superior of the canons at Butzbach, and lived in the House of the Brethren on the Rheingau until 1468.
In 1468 the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights Heinrich Reuss von Plauen gave the village as a fief to Went von Eulenburg (Yleburg), a member of the House of Wettin, and Gallingen remained property of the Eulenburg family until 1945, when the last owner Botho Wendt zu Eulenburg, was deported to the Soviet Union.
Giacomo Fogliano (1468 – 10 April 1548) was an Italian composer, organist, harpsichordist, and music teacher of the Renaissance, active mainly in Modena in northern Italy.
Frederick (after 1425 – 22 June 1468), killed in Wachtendonk on the day before the Battle of Straelen, married on 29 September 1461 to Eva of Linnep (before 1451 – 1483)
During the 15th century Wars of the Roses, Harlech was held by the Lancastrians for seven years, before Yorkist troops forced its surrender in 1468, a siege memorialised in the song Men of Harlech.
Kebek Sultan Oghlan (died c. 1472) was Khan of eastern Moghulistan (Uyghurstan) from 1468 or 1469 until his death.
Lady Eleanor Talbot (died 1468), whose married name was Butler, alleged wife of King Edward IV of England
The artistic heritage of the school salimbenian inherited his style from Salimbeni brothers and influenced another important local painter, Niccolò Di Liberatore, also known as “L'Alunno” (from Foligno, who lived two years in San Severino and painted there a polyptych signed in 1468).
The first Turkish censuses from 1468 and 1477 reveal that the local administrator at that time was one Herak Vraneš, a member of the indigenous population that predates migration of Slavs from the North.
In 1468-1474 disputes led Mehmed II to drive out tribes, possibly Qizilbāsh, from this area to Rumelia and in 1475 he made an end to the Karaman rule.
Etterlin’s military career began in 1468 when he joined the army of the Swiss Confederation at the siege of Waldshut.
Niccolo Rondinelli (c. 1468 – c. 1520), Italian painter of the Renaissance period
Siegmund of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (27 September 1468 in Ansbach – 26 February 1495 in Ansbach) was the sixth, but third surviving, son of Albrecht III, Margrave of Brandenburg, Ansbach and Bayreuth.
Uriel von Gemmingen (1468-9 February 1514) was appointed Archbishop of Mainz on 27 September 1508, a prince elector, and chancellor to Emperor Maximillian I on 23 April 1509.
His large and productive workshop produced (among others) a book of hours which is now in Baltimore (1455–60), the Hours of Isabella of Castille (c.1460), the Chronicles of Hainaut (1468) and individual miniatures in the Hours of Mary of Burgundy (c.1480).