Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1479?

20 of the people we track were surely alive in 1479. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci27
  2. Michelangelo4
  3. Christopher Columbus27–28
  4. Niccolò Machiavelli10
  5. Nicolaus Copernicus6
  6. Albrecht Dürer8
  7. Vasco da Gama9–21
  8. Erasmus13
  9. Mehmed II47
  10. Sandro Botticelli31–36
  11. Amerigo Vespucci25
  12. Guru Nanak10
  13. Alexander VI46–50
  14. Isabella I of Castile28
  15. Julius II36
  16. Leo X4
  17. Hieronymus Bosch26–31
  18. Paul III11
  19. Ludovico Ariosto5
  20. Ferdinand II of Aragon27