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.
- Leonardo da Vinci65
- Michelangelo42
- Martin Luther34
- Niccolò Machiavelli48
- Nicolaus Copernicus44
- Ferdinand Magellan34–39
- Raphael34
- Albrecht Dürer46
- Vasco da Gama47–59
- Hernán Cortés31–32
- Jacques Cartier25
- Erasmus51
- Suleiman the Magnificent23
- Mimar Sinan24–29
- John Calvin8
- François Rabelais22–23
- Thomas More37–41
- Charles V17
- Nostradamus14
- Henry VIII of England26
- Titian24–29
- Teresa of Ávila2
- Babur34
- Guru Nanak48
- Paracelsus24
- Ignatius of Loyola24–28
- Anne Boleyn16
- Mary I1
- Huldrych Zwingli33
- Gregory XIII15
- Leo X42
- Paul III49
- Ludovico Ariosto43
- Francis I of France23
- Pius V13
- Francisco Pizarro37–41