Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1503?

40 of the people we track were surely alive in 1503. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1503: Nostradamus.

Died in 1503: Alexander VI.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci51
  2. Michelangelo28
  3. Martin Luther20
  4. Christopher Columbus51–52
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli34
  6. Nicolaus Copernicus30
  7. Ferdinand Magellan20–25
  8. Raphael20
  9. Albrecht Dürer32
  10. Vasco da Gama33–45
  11. Hernán Cortés17–18
  12. Jacques Cartier11
  13. Erasmus37
  14. Suleiman the Magnificent9
  15. Mimar Sinan10–15
  16. François Rabelais8–9
  17. Thomas More23–27
  18. Charles V3
  19. Nostradamusborn
  20. Henry VIII of England12
  21. Sandro Botticelli55–60
  22. Amerigo Vespucci49
  23. Titian10–15
  24. Babur20
  25. Guru Nanak34
  26. Paracelsus10
  27. Ignatius of Loyola10–14
  28. Anne Boleyn2
  29. Alexander VI†
  30. Isabella I of Castile52
  31. Huldrych Zwingli19
  32. Julius II60
  33. Gregory XIII1
  34. Leo X28
  35. Hieronymus Bosch50–55
  36. Paul III35
  37. Ludovico Ariosto29
  38. Francis I of France9
  39. Ferdinand II of Aragon51
  40. Francisco Pizarro23–27