Who Was Alive

Famous people born in the 15th century

42 people we track were born in the 15th century. The best known are on the timeline.

  1. Joan of Arc
  2. Mehmed II
  3. Sandro Botticelli
  4. Christopher Columbus
  5. Leonardo da Vinci
  6. Amerigo Vespucci
  7. Vasco da Gama
  8. Erasmus
  9. Niccolò Machiavelli
  10. Albrecht Dürer
  11. Nicolaus Copernicus
  12. Michelangelo
  13. Thomas More
  14. Ferdinand Magellan
  15. Raphael
  16. Martin Luther
  17. Hernán Cortés
  18. Mimar Sinan
  19. Titian
  20. Henry VIII of England
  21. Jacques Cartier
  22. François Rabelais
  23. Suleiman the Magnificent
  24. Charles V
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.
  1. Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1519
  2. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  3. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  4. Christopher Columbus 1451 – 1506
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  6. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  7. Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480 – 1521
  8. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  9. Joan of Arc c. 1412 – 1431
  10. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  11. Vasco da Gama 1457–1469 – 1524
  12. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  13. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  14. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  15. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  16. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  17. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  18. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  19. Charles V 1500 – 1558
  20. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  21. Henry VIII of England 1491 – 1547
  22. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  23. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  24. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  25. Babur 1483 – 1530
  26. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  27. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  28. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  29. Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  30. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  31. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  32. François Villon 1431 – 1463
  33. Julius II 1443 – 1513
  34. Leo X 1475 – 1521
  35. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  36. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  37. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  38. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  39. Vlad the Impaler 1428–1431 – 1476–1477
  40. Pius II 1405 – 1464
  41. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  42. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541