Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1521?

34 of the people we track were surely alive in 1521. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 1521: Ferdinand Magellan and Leo X.

  1. Michelangelo46
  2. Martin Luther38
  3. Niccolò Machiavelli52
  4. Nicolaus Copernicus48
  5. Ferdinand Magellan†
  6. Albrecht Dürer50
  7. Vasco da Gama51–63
  8. Hernán Cortés35–36
  9. Jacques Cartier29
  10. Erasmus55
  11. Suleiman the Magnificent27
  12. Mimar Sinan28–33
  13. John Calvin12
  14. François Rabelais26–27
  15. Thomas More41–45
  16. Charles V21
  17. Nostradamus18
  18. Henry VIII of England30
  19. Titian28–33
  20. Teresa of Ávila6
  21. Babur38
  22. Guru Nanak52
  23. Paracelsus28
  24. Ignatius of Loyola28–32
  25. Anne Boleyn20
  26. Mary I5
  27. Huldrych Zwingli37
  28. Gregory XIII19
  29. Leo X45 †
  30. Paul III53
  31. Ludovico Ariosto47
  32. Francis I of France27
  33. Pius V17
  34. Francisco Pizarro41–45