Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1502?

39 of the people we track were surely alive in 1502. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1502: Gregory XIII.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci50
  2. Michelangelo27
  3. Martin Luther19
  4. Christopher Columbus50–51
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli33
  6. Nicolaus Copernicus29
  7. Ferdinand Magellan19–24
  8. Raphael19
  9. Albrecht Dürer31
  10. Vasco da Gama32–44
  11. Hernán Cortés16–17
  12. Jacques Cartier10
  13. Erasmus36
  14. Suleiman the Magnificent8
  15. Mimar Sinan9–14
  16. François Rabelais7–8
  17. Thomas More22–26
  18. Charles V2
  19. Henry VIII of England11
  20. Sandro Botticelli54–59
  21. Amerigo Vespucci48
  22. Titian9–14
  23. Babur19
  24. Guru Nanak33
  25. Paracelsus9
  26. Ignatius of Loyola9–13
  27. Anne Boleyn1
  28. Alexander VI69–73
  29. Isabella I of Castile51
  30. Huldrych Zwingli18
  31. Julius II59
  32. Gregory XIIIborn
  33. Leo X27
  34. Hieronymus Bosch49–54
  35. Paul III34
  36. Ludovico Ariosto28
  37. Francis I of France8
  38. Ferdinand II of Aragon50
  39. Francisco Pizarro22–26