Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1516?

38 of the people we track were surely alive in 1516. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1516: Mary I.

Died in 1516: Hieronymus Bosch and Ferdinand II of Aragon.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci64
  2. Michelangelo41
  3. Martin Luther33
  4. Niccolò Machiavelli47
  5. Nicolaus Copernicus43
  6. Ferdinand Magellan33–38
  7. Raphael33
  8. Albrecht Dürer45
  9. Vasco da Gama46–58
  10. Hernán Cortés30–31
  11. Jacques Cartier24
  12. Erasmus50
  13. Suleiman the Magnificent22
  14. Mimar Sinan23–28
  15. John Calvin7
  16. François Rabelais21–22
  17. Thomas More36–40
  18. Charles V16
  19. Nostradamus13
  20. Henry VIII of England25
  21. Titian23–28
  22. Teresa of Ávila1
  23. Babur33
  24. Guru Nanak47
  25. Paracelsus23
  26. Ignatius of Loyola23–27
  27. Anne Boleyn15
  28. Mary Iborn
  29. Huldrych Zwingli32
  30. Gregory XIII14
  31. Leo X41
  32. Hieronymus Bosch†
  33. Paul III48
  34. Ludovico Ariosto42
  35. Francis I of France22
  36. Pius V12
  37. Ferdinand II of Aragon63 †
  38. Francisco Pizarro36–40