Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1499?

36 of the people we track were surely alive in 1499. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci47
  2. Michelangelo24
  3. Martin Luther16
  4. Christopher Columbus47–48
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli30
  6. Nicolaus Copernicus26
  7. Ferdinand Magellan16–21
  8. Raphael16
  9. Albrecht Dürer28
  10. Vasco da Gama29–41
  11. Hernán Cortés13–14
  12. Jacques Cartier7
  13. Erasmus33
  14. Suleiman the Magnificent5
  15. Mimar Sinan6–11
  16. François Rabelais4–5
  17. Thomas More19–23
  18. Henry VIII of England8
  19. Sandro Botticelli51–56
  20. Amerigo Vespucci45
  21. Titian6–11
  22. Babur16
  23. Guru Nanak30
  24. Paracelsus6
  25. Ignatius of Loyola6–10
  26. Alexander VI66–70
  27. Isabella I of Castile48
  28. Huldrych Zwingli15
  29. Julius II56
  30. Leo X24
  31. Hieronymus Bosch46–51
  32. Paul III31
  33. Ludovico Ariosto25
  34. Francis I of France5
  35. Ferdinand II of Aragon47
  36. Francisco Pizarro19–23