Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1531?

34 of the people we track were surely alive in 1531. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 1531: Babur and Huldrych Zwingli.

  1. Michelangelo56
  2. Martin Luther48
  3. Nicolaus Copernicus58
  4. Hernán Cortés45–46
  5. Jacques Cartier39
  6. Erasmus65
  7. Suleiman the Magnificent37
  8. Mimar Sinan38–43
  9. John Calvin22
  10. François Rabelais36–37
  11. Thomas More51–55
  12. Charles V31
  13. Nostradamus28
  14. Henry VIII of England40
  15. Ivan the Terrible1
  16. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina6
  17. Luís de Camões6–7
  18. Philip II of Spain4
  19. Titian38–43
  20. Teresa of Ávila16
  21. Babur47 †
  22. Guru Nanak62
  23. Paracelsus38
  24. Ignatius of Loyola38–42
  25. Anne Boleyn30
  26. Mary I15
  27. Huldrych Zwingli47 †
  28. Gregory XIII29
  29. Paul III63
  30. Ludovico Ariosto57
  31. Francis I of France37
  32. Pieter Brueghel the Elder3–8
  33. Pius V27
  34. Francisco Pizarro51–55