* 1347 – Dorothea of Montau, Catholic saint ( d. 1394 )

Infante Henry, Duke of Viseu (; Porto, 4 March 1394 – Sagres, 13 November 1460 ), better known as Henry the Navigator, was an important figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and the Age of Discoveries in total.

* 1394 – Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shogun ( d. 1441 )

* King James I of Scotland ( 1394 – 1437 )

* 1394 – Charles, Duke of Orléans, French poet ( d. 1465 )

* 1394 – The Korean king Yi Seong-gye, founder of the Joseon Dynasty, moves the capital from Kaesŏng to Hanyang, today known as Seoul.

After deposing Antipope John XXIII in 1415, the Council was long divided by the conflicting claims of Pope Gregory XII ( 1406 – 15 ) and Antipope Benedict XIII ( 1394 – 1423 ).

Gregory was chosen at Rome in 1406 by a conclave consisting of only fifteen cardinals under the express condition that, should Antipope Benedict XIII ( 1394 – 1423 ), the rival papal claimant at Avignon, renounce all claim to the Papacy, he would also renounce his, so that a fresh election might be made and the Western Schism ( 1378 – 1417 ) could be ended.

* Henry the Navigator Infante Henrique, Duke of Viseu ( 1394 – 1460 ); infante ( prince ) of the Portuguese House of Aviz and an important figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire, being responsible for the beginning of the European worldwide explorations.

* January 5 – Charles, duc d ' Orléans, French poet ( b. 1394 )

* Henry the Navigator of Portugal ( 1394 – 1460 ), Portuguese prince and patron of exploration

* February 21 – King James I of Scotland ( b. 1394 ) ( murdered )

* Clement VII: 1378 – 1394

* Benedict XIII: 1394 – 1423 ( expelled from Avignon in 1403 )

# Margaret ( 1376 – 27 August 1434, Nancy ), married in 1394 to Charles II, Duke of Lorraine

* July 5 – Charles of Artois, Count of Eu, French military leader ( b. 1394 )

* November 13 – Prince Henry the Navigator, Portuguese patron of exploration ( b. 1394 )

* February 6 – Dorothea of Montau, German hermitess and visionary ( d. 1394 )

* July 11 – Anne of Bohemia, queen of Richard II of England ( d. 1394 )

* June 3 – Sultan Bayezid I of the Ottoman Empire beheads Emperor Ivan Shishman of Ottoman-occupied eastern Bulgaria after Shishman is accused of collaborating with the Wallachians during the 1394 Battle of Karanovasa.

* September 28 – Cymburgis of Masovia, wife of Duke Ernest the Iron of Inner Austria ( b. 1394 )

* July 12 – Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shogun ( b. 1394 )

Anne of Bohemia ( 11 May 1366 – 7 June 1394 ) was Queen of England as the first wife of King Richard II.

* Anne of Bohemia ( 1366 – 1394 ), queen of Richard II of England

When Anne died there of plague in 1394, Richard cursed the place where they had found great happiness and razed the palace to the ground.

Richard's outer robe is of cloth of gold and red vermilion, the fabric decorated with his personal device of the white harts and sprigs of rosemary, the emblem of his wife Anne of Bohemia, who died in 1394.

** John Hawkwood, English mercenary ( d. 1394 )

Sir John Hawkwood ( died 1394 ) was an English mercenary or condottiero who was active in 14th century Italy.

* Specimens of English from 1394 to 1597 ( 1871 )

In 1394, Repyngdon was made abbot of the abbey of Saint Mary de Pratis at Leicester, and after the accession of Henry IV to the English throne in 1399 he became chaplain and confessor to this king, being described as clericus specialissimus domini regis Henrici.

The first of the Makars proper in this sense, although perhaps the least Scots due to his education predominantly in captivity at the English court in London, is generally taken to be James I ( 1394 – 1437 ) the likely author of the Kingis Quair.

Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk ( 1394 – 25 October 1415 ) was an English nobleman, the eldest son of Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk and Katherine de Stafford.

* 1394: Thomas O ' Dempsy, heir to the lordship of Clann-Maoilughra, was slain by the English.

Thomas de Brantingham ( died 1394 ) was an English clergyman who served as Lord Treasurer to Edward III and on two occasions to Richard II, and as bishop of Exeter from 1370 until his death.

** Constance of Castile, wife of John of Gaunt ( d. 1394 )

July 25, 1415 marked the beginning of the Portuguese Empire, when the Portuguese Armada departed to the rich trade Islamic centre of Ceuta in North Africa with King John I and his wife Phillipa of Lancaster and their sons Prince Duarte ( future king ), Prince Pedro, Prince Henry the Navigator ( born in Porto in 1394 ) and Prince Afonso, and legendary Portuguese hero Nuno Álvares Pereira.

Mary de Bohun ( c. 1368 – 4 June 1394 ) was the first wife of King Henry IV of England and the mother of King Henry V. Mary was never queen, as she died before her husband came to the throne.

In 1394 John Devereux died in possession, by the right of his wife, of the manor of Penshurst, Kent.

Cymburgis ( also Cimburgis, Zimburgis or Cimburga ) of Masovia () ( 1394 or 1397 – September 28, 1429 ) in January 1412 became the second wife of the Habsburg Duke Ernest the Iron of Austria ( since 1414 Archduke ) and thus a Duchess / Archduchess of the Inner Austrian line in Styria, Carinthia and Carniola.

* Mary de Bohun ( c. 1368 – 1394 ); the first wife of King Henry IV of England and mother of King Henry V.

A record of de Brantingham's death, dated 13 December 1394, notes that the bishop was to be buried in the nave of Exeter Cathedral and lists, among the beneficiaries of his will, Richard Brantingham and his wife, Joan ( presumably de Brantingham's son and daughter-in-law ).