Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1475?

21 of the people we track were surely alive in 1475. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1475: Michelangelo and Leo X.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci23
  2. Michelangeloborn
  3. Christopher Columbus23–24
  4. Niccolò Machiavelli6
  5. Nicolaus Copernicus2
  6. Albrecht Dürer4
  7. Vasco da Gama5–17
  8. Erasmus9
  9. Mehmed II43
  10. Sandro Botticelli27–32
  11. Amerigo Vespucci21
  12. Guru Nanak6
  13. Alexander VI42–46
  14. Isabella I of Castile24
  15. Julius II32
  16. Leo Xborn
  17. Hieronymus Bosch22–27
  18. Paul III7
  19. Ludovico Ariosto1
  20. Vlad the Impaler43–47
  21. Ferdinand II of Aragon23