Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1497?

36 of the people we track were surely alive in 1497. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci45
  2. Michelangelo22
  3. Martin Luther14
  4. Christopher Columbus45–46
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli28
  6. Nicolaus Copernicus24
  7. Ferdinand Magellan14–19
  8. Raphael14
  9. Albrecht Dürer26
  10. Vasco da Gama27–39
  11. Hernán Cortés11–12
  12. Jacques Cartier5
  13. Erasmus31
  14. Suleiman the Magnificent3
  15. Mimar Sinan4–9
  16. François Rabelais2–3
  17. Thomas More17–21
  18. Henry VIII of England6
  19. Sandro Botticelli49–54
  20. Amerigo Vespucci43
  21. Titian4–9
  22. Babur14
  23. Guru Nanak28
  24. Paracelsus4
  25. Ignatius of Loyola4–8
  26. Alexander VI64–68
  27. Isabella I of Castile46
  28. Huldrych Zwingli13
  29. Julius II54
  30. Leo X22
  31. Hieronymus Bosch44–49
  32. Paul III29
  33. Ludovico Ariosto23
  34. Francis I of France3
  35. Ferdinand II of Aragon45
  36. Francisco Pizarro17–21