Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1509?

39 of the people we track were surely alive in 1509. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1509: John Calvin.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci57
  2. Michelangelo34
  3. Martin Luther26
  4. Niccolò Machiavelli40
  5. Nicolaus Copernicus36
  6. Ferdinand Magellan26–31
  7. Raphael26
  8. Albrecht Dürer38
  9. Vasco da Gama39–51
  10. Hernán Cortés23–24
  11. Jacques Cartier17
  12. Erasmus43
  13. Suleiman the Magnificent15
  14. Mimar Sinan16–21
  15. John Calvinborn
  16. François Rabelais14–15
  17. Thomas More29–33
  18. Charles V9
  19. Nostradamus6
  20. Henry VIII of England18
  21. Sandro Botticelli61–66
  22. Amerigo Vespucci55
  23. Titian16–21
  24. Babur26
  25. Guru Nanak40
  26. Paracelsus16
  27. Ignatius of Loyola16–20
  28. Anne Boleyn8
  29. Huldrych Zwingli25
  30. Julius II66
  31. Gregory XIII7
  32. Leo X34
  33. Hieronymus Bosch56–61
  34. Paul III41
  35. Ludovico Ariosto35
  36. Francis I of France15
  37. Pius V5
  38. Ferdinand II of Aragon57
  39. Francisco Pizarro29–33