Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1512?

38 of the people we track were surely alive in 1512. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 1512: Amerigo Vespucci.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci60
  2. Michelangelo37
  3. Martin Luther29
  4. Niccolò Machiavelli43
  5. Nicolaus Copernicus39
  6. Ferdinand Magellan29–34
  7. Raphael29
  8. Albrecht Dürer41
  9. Vasco da Gama42–54
  10. Hernán Cortés26–27
  11. Jacques Cartier20
  12. Erasmus46
  13. Suleiman the Magnificent18
  14. Mimar Sinan19–24
  15. John Calvin3
  16. François Rabelais17–18
  17. Thomas More32–36
  18. Charles V12
  19. Nostradamus9
  20. Henry VIII of England21
  21. Amerigo Vespucci57 †
  22. Titian19–24
  23. Babur29
  24. Guru Nanak43
  25. Paracelsus19
  26. Ignatius of Loyola19–23
  27. Anne Boleyn11
  28. Huldrych Zwingli28
  29. Julius II69
  30. Gregory XIII10
  31. Leo X37
  32. Hieronymus Bosch59–64
  33. Paul III44
  34. Ludovico Ariosto38
  35. Francis I of France18
  36. Pius V8
  37. Ferdinand II of Aragon60
  38. Francisco Pizarro32–36