Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1495?

36 of the people we track were surely alive in 1495. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci43
  2. Michelangelo20
  3. Martin Luther12
  4. Christopher Columbus43–44
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli26
  6. Nicolaus Copernicus22
  7. Ferdinand Magellan12–17
  8. Raphael12
  9. Albrecht Dürer24
  10. Vasco da Gama25–37
  11. Hernán Cortés9–10
  12. Jacques Cartier3
  13. Erasmus29
  14. Suleiman the Magnificent1
  15. Mimar Sinan2–7
  16. François Rabelais0–1
  17. Thomas More15–19
  18. Henry VIII of England4
  19. Sandro Botticelli47–52
  20. Amerigo Vespucci41
  21. Titian2–7
  22. Babur12
  23. Guru Nanak26
  24. Paracelsus2
  25. Ignatius of Loyola2–6
  26. Alexander VI62–66
  27. Isabella I of Castile44
  28. Huldrych Zwingli11
  29. Julius II52
  30. Leo X20
  31. Hieronymus Bosch42–47
  32. Paul III27
  33. Ludovico Ariosto21
  34. Francis I of France1
  35. Ferdinand II of Aragon43
  36. Francisco Pizarro15–19