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Gian Galeazzo Sforza

1469 - 1494

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Gian Galeazzo Sforza (20 June 1469 – 21 October 1494), also known as Giovan Galeazzo Sforza, was the sixth Duke of Milan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gian Galeazzo Sforza has received more than 279,351 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Gian Galeazzo Sforza is the 139th most popular nobleman (down from 109th in 2019), the 792nd most popular biography from Italy (down from 621st in 2019) and the 17th most popular Italian Nobleman.

Gian Galeazzo Sforza is most famous for being the Duke of Milan from 1466-1476.

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Among NOBLEMEN

Among noblemen, Gian Galeazzo Sforza ranks 139 out of 1,415Before him are Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici, Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, Ismihan Sultan, Sophia of Hanover, Princess Augusta of Bavaria, and Maria Goretti. After him are Isabella I of Jerusalem, Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria, Setnakhte, Stéphanie de Beauharnais, Ramesses VIII, and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1469, Gian Galeazzo Sforza ranks 4Before him are Niccolò Machiavelli, Manuel I of Portugal, and Guru Nanak. After him are Thomas Cajetan, John Fisher, Rodrigo de Triana, Ishak Pasha, Elia Levita, Francesco Granacci, and Laura Cereta. Among people deceased in 1494, Gian Galeazzo Sforza ranks 6Before him are Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Hans Memling, Ferdinand I of Naples, and Poliziano. After him are Melozzo da Forlì, Matteo Maria Boiardo, Muhammad XIII of Granada, Yuriy Drohobych, Giosafat Barbaro, and Giovanni Santi.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Gian Galeazzo Sforza ranks 792 out of 5,161Before him are Maria Goretti (1890), Giosuè Carducci (1835), Faustina the Younger (125), Pietro Metastasio (1698), Lorenzo di Credi (1459), and Jacopo Bellini (1396). After him are Tiberius Claudius Nero (-85), Eros Ramazzotti (1963), Alessandro Algardi (1595), Nero Julius Caesar (6), Giuliano da Sangallo (1445), and Clementia of Hungary (1293).

Among NOBLEMEN In Italy

Among noblemen born in Italy, Gian Galeazzo Sforza ranks 17Before him are Gaius Caesar (-20), Joanna I of Naples (1326), Giovanni Borgia, 2nd Duke of Gandia (1474), Marie Joséphine of Savoy (1753), Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici (1360), and Maria Goretti (1890). After him are Galeazzo Maria Sforza (1444), Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1590), Isabella d'Este (1474), Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (1476), Eleonora Gonzaga (1630), and Maximilian Sforza (1493).