Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1530?

34 of the people we track were surely alive in 1530. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1530: Ivan the Terrible.

  1. Michelangelo55
  2. Martin Luther47
  3. Nicolaus Copernicus57
  4. Hernán Cortés44–45
  5. Jacques Cartier38
  6. Erasmus64
  7. Suleiman the Magnificent36
  8. Mimar Sinan37–42
  9. John Calvin21
  10. François Rabelais35–36
  11. Thomas More50–54
  12. Charles V30
  13. Nostradamus27
  14. Henry VIII of England39
  15. Ivan the Terribleborn
  16. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina5
  17. Luís de Camões5–6
  18. Philip II of Spain3
  19. Titian37–42
  20. Teresa of Ávila15
  21. Babur47
  22. Guru Nanak61
  23. Paracelsus37
  24. Ignatius of Loyola37–41
  25. Anne Boleyn29
  26. Mary I14
  27. Huldrych Zwingli46
  28. Gregory XIII28
  29. Paul III62
  30. Ludovico Ariosto56
  31. Francis I of France36
  32. Pieter Brueghel the Elder2–7
  33. Pius V26
  34. Francisco Pizarro50–54