Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1494?

35 of the people we track were surely alive in 1494. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1494: Suleiman the Magnificent and Francis I of France.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci42
  2. Michelangelo19
  3. Martin Luther11
  4. Christopher Columbus42–43
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli25
  6. Nicolaus Copernicus21
  7. Ferdinand Magellan11–16
  8. Raphael11
  9. Albrecht Dürer23
  10. Vasco da Gama24–36
  11. Hernán Cortés8–9
  12. Jacques Cartier2
  13. Erasmus28
  14. Suleiman the Magnificentborn
  15. Mimar Sinan1–6
  16. Thomas More14–18
  17. Henry VIII of England3
  18. Sandro Botticelli46–51
  19. Amerigo Vespucci40
  20. Titian1–6
  21. Babur11
  22. Guru Nanak25
  23. Paracelsus1
  24. Ignatius of Loyola1–5
  25. Alexander VI61–65
  26. Isabella I of Castile43
  27. Huldrych Zwingli10
  28. Julius II51
  29. Leo X19
  30. Hieronymus Bosch41–46
  31. Paul III26
  32. Ludovico Ariosto20
  33. Francis I of Franceborn
  34. Ferdinand II of Aragon42
  35. Francisco Pizarro14–18