Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1477?

20 of the people we track were surely alive in 1477. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci25
  2. Michelangelo2
  3. Christopher Columbus25–26
  4. Niccolò Machiavelli8
  5. Nicolaus Copernicus4
  6. Albrecht Dürer6
  7. Vasco da Gama7–19
  8. Erasmus11
  9. Mehmed II45
  10. Sandro Botticelli29–34
  11. Amerigo Vespucci23
  12. Guru Nanak8
  13. Alexander VI44–48
  14. Isabella I of Castile26
  15. Julius II34
  16. Leo X2
  17. Hieronymus Bosch24–29
  18. Paul III9
  19. Ludovico Ariosto3
  20. Ferdinand II of Aragon25