Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1523?

32 of the people we track were surely alive in 1523. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

  1. Michelangelo48
  2. Martin Luther40
  3. Niccolò Machiavelli54
  4. Nicolaus Copernicus50
  5. Albrecht Dürer52
  6. Vasco da Gama53–65
  7. Hernán Cortés37–38
  8. Jacques Cartier31
  9. Erasmus57
  10. Suleiman the Magnificent29
  11. Mimar Sinan30–35
  12. John Calvin14
  13. François Rabelais28–29
  14. Thomas More43–47
  15. Charles V23
  16. Nostradamus20
  17. Henry VIII of England32
  18. Titian30–35
  19. Teresa of Ávila8
  20. Babur40
  21. Guru Nanak54
  22. Paracelsus30
  23. Ignatius of Loyola30–34
  24. Anne Boleyn22
  25. Mary I7
  26. Huldrych Zwingli39
  27. Gregory XIII21
  28. Paul III55
  29. Ludovico Ariosto49
  30. Francis I of France29
  31. Pius V19
  32. Francisco Pizarro43–47