1408
Year 1408 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.Events
January–December
Births
- January 25 - Katharina of Hanau, German countess regent
- February 14 - John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel
- March 25 - Agnes of Baden, Countess of Holstein-Rendsburg, German noble
- April 8 - Jadwiga of Lithuania, Polish princess
- April 23 - John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford, English noble
- May 22 - Annamacharya, Indian mystic saint composer
- October 1 or 1409 - Karl Knutsson, King of Sweden
- date unknown - John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel
Deaths
- February 19 - Thomas Bardolf, 5th Baron Bardolf, English rebel
- February 20 - Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English rebel
- April - Miran Shah, son of Timur the Lame
- April 10 or April 11 - Elizabeth le Despenser, English noblewoman
- May 24 - Taejo of Joseon, ruler of Korea
- May 31 - Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shōgun
- September 15 - Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent
- September 22 - John VII Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor
- December 4 - Valentina Visconti, Duchess of Orléans by marriage to Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans
- date unknown - Coptic Pope Matthew I of Alexandria
