Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1496?

36 of the people we track were surely alive in 1496. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci44
  2. Michelangelo21
  3. Martin Luther13
  4. Christopher Columbus44–45
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli27
  6. Nicolaus Copernicus23
  7. Ferdinand Magellan13–18
  8. Raphael13
  9. Albrecht Dürer25
  10. Vasco da Gama26–38
  11. Hernán Cortés10–11
  12. Jacques Cartier4
  13. Erasmus30
  14. Suleiman the Magnificent2
  15. Mimar Sinan3–8
  16. François Rabelais1–2
  17. Thomas More16–20
  18. Henry VIII of England5
  19. Sandro Botticelli48–53
  20. Amerigo Vespucci42
  21. Titian3–8
  22. Babur13
  23. Guru Nanak27
  24. Paracelsus3
  25. Ignatius of Loyola3–7
  26. Alexander VI63–67
  27. Isabella I of Castile45
  28. Huldrych Zwingli12
  29. Julius II53
  30. Leo X21
  31. Hieronymus Bosch43–48
  32. Paul III28
  33. Ludovico Ariosto22
  34. Francis I of France2
  35. Ferdinand II of Aragon44
  36. Francisco Pizarro16–20