Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1500?

37 of the people we track were surely alive in 1500. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1500: Charles V.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci48
  2. Michelangelo25
  3. Martin Luther17
  4. Christopher Columbus48–49
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli31
  6. Nicolaus Copernicus27
  7. Ferdinand Magellan17–22
  8. Raphael17
  9. Albrecht Dürer29
  10. Vasco da Gama30–42
  11. Hernán Cortés14–15
  12. Jacques Cartier8
  13. Erasmus34
  14. Suleiman the Magnificent6
  15. Mimar Sinan7–12
  16. François Rabelais5–6
  17. Thomas More20–24
  18. Charles Vborn
  19. Henry VIII of England9
  20. Sandro Botticelli52–57
  21. Amerigo Vespucci46
  22. Titian7–12
  23. Babur17
  24. Guru Nanak31
  25. Paracelsus7
  26. Ignatius of Loyola7–11
  27. Alexander VI67–71
  28. Isabella I of Castile49
  29. Huldrych Zwingli16
  30. Julius II57
  31. Leo X25
  32. Hieronymus Bosch47–52
  33. Paul III32
  34. Ludovico Ariosto26
  35. Francis I of France6
  36. Ferdinand II of Aragon48
  37. Francisco Pizarro20–24