Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1501?

38 of the people we track were surely alive in 1501. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1501: Anne Boleyn.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci49
  2. Michelangelo26
  3. Martin Luther18
  4. Christopher Columbus49–50
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli32
  6. Nicolaus Copernicus28
  7. Ferdinand Magellan18–23
  8. Raphael18
  9. Albrecht Dürer30
  10. Vasco da Gama31–43
  11. Hernán Cortés15–16
  12. Jacques Cartier9
  13. Erasmus35
  14. Suleiman the Magnificent7
  15. Mimar Sinan8–13
  16. François Rabelais6–7
  17. Thomas More21–25
  18. Charles V1
  19. Henry VIII of England10
  20. Sandro Botticelli53–58
  21. Amerigo Vespucci47
  22. Titian8–13
  23. Babur18
  24. Guru Nanak32
  25. Paracelsus8
  26. Ignatius of Loyola8–12
  27. Anne Boleynborn
  28. Alexander VI68–72
  29. Isabella I of Castile50
  30. Huldrych Zwingli17
  31. Julius II58
  32. Leo X26
  33. Hieronymus Bosch48–53
  34. Paul III33
  35. Ludovico Ariosto27
  36. Francis I of France7
  37. Ferdinand II of Aragon49
  38. Francisco Pizarro21–25