Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1517?

36 of the people we track were surely alive in 1517. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci65
  2. Michelangelo42
  3. Martin Luther34
  4. Niccolò Machiavelli48
  5. Nicolaus Copernicus44
  6. Ferdinand Magellan34–39
  7. Raphael34
  8. Albrecht Dürer46
  9. Vasco da Gama47–59
  10. Hernán Cortés31–32
  11. Jacques Cartier25
  12. Erasmus51
  13. Suleiman the Magnificent23
  14. Mimar Sinan24–29
  15. John Calvin8
  16. François Rabelais22–23
  17. Thomas More37–41
  18. Charles V17
  19. Nostradamus14
  20. Henry VIII of England26
  21. Titian24–29
  22. Teresa of Ávila2
  23. Babur34
  24. Guru Nanak48
  25. Paracelsus24
  26. Ignatius of Loyola24–28
  27. Anne Boleyn16
  28. Mary I1
  29. Huldrych Zwingli33
  30. Gregory XIII15
  31. Leo X42
  32. Paul III49
  33. Ludovico Ariosto43
  34. Francis I of France23
  35. Pius V13
  36. Francisco Pizarro37–41