Who was alive in 1472?

17 of the people we track were surely alive in 1472. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

1. Leonardo da Vinci20
2. Christopher Columbus20–21
3. Niccolò Machiavelli3
4. Albrecht Dürer1
5. Vasco da Gama2–14
6. Erasmus6
7. Mehmed II40
8. Sandro Botticelli24–29
9. Amerigo Vespucci18
10. Guru Nanak3
11. Alexander VI39–43
12. Isabella I of Castile21
13. Julius II29
14. Hieronymus Bosch19–24
15. Paul III4
16. Vlad the Impaler40–44
17. Ferdinand II of Aragon20