Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1533?

34 of the people we track were surely alive in 1533. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1533: Elizabeth I of England and Michel de Montaigne.

Died in 1533: Ludovico Ariosto.

  1. Michelangelo58
  2. Martin Luther50
  3. Nicolaus Copernicus60
  4. Elizabeth I of Englandborn
  5. Hernán Cortés47–48
  6. Jacques Cartier41
  7. Erasmus67
  8. Suleiman the Magnificent39
  9. Michel de Montaigneborn
  10. Mimar Sinan40–45
  11. John Calvin24
  12. François Rabelais38–39
  13. Thomas More53–57
  14. Charles V33
  15. Nostradamus30
  16. Henry VIII of England42
  17. Ivan the Terrible3
  18. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina8
  19. Luís de Camões8–9
  20. Philip II of Spain6
  21. Titian40–45
  22. Teresa of Ávila18
  23. Guru Nanak64
  24. Paracelsus40
  25. Ignatius of Loyola40–44
  26. Anne Boleyn32
  27. Mary I17
  28. Gregory XIII31
  29. Paul III65
  30. Ludovico Ariosto58 †
  31. Francis I of France39
  32. Pieter Brueghel the Elder5–10
  33. Pius V29
  34. Francisco Pizarro53–57