Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1498?

36 of the people we track were surely alive in 1498. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci46
  2. Michelangelo23
  3. Martin Luther15
  4. Christopher Columbus46–47
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli29
  6. Nicolaus Copernicus25
  7. Ferdinand Magellan15–20
  8. Raphael15
  9. Albrecht Dürer27
  10. Vasco da Gama28–40
  11. Hernán Cortés12–13
  12. Jacques Cartier6
  13. Erasmus32
  14. Suleiman the Magnificent4
  15. Mimar Sinan5–10
  16. François Rabelais3–4
  17. Thomas More18–22
  18. Henry VIII of England7
  19. Sandro Botticelli50–55
  20. Amerigo Vespucci44
  21. Titian5–10
  22. Babur15
  23. Guru Nanak29
  24. Paracelsus5
  25. Ignatius of Loyola5–9
  26. Alexander VI65–69
  27. Isabella I of Castile47
  28. Huldrych Zwingli14
  29. Julius II55
  30. Leo X23
  31. Hieronymus Bosch45–50
  32. Paul III30
  33. Ludovico Ariosto24
  34. Francis I of France4
  35. Ferdinand II of Aragon46
  36. Francisco Pizarro18–22