Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1504?

40 of the people we track were surely alive in 1504. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1504: Pius V.

Died in 1504: Isabella I of Castile.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci52
  2. Michelangelo29
  3. Martin Luther21
  4. Christopher Columbus52–53
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli35
  6. Nicolaus Copernicus31
  7. Ferdinand Magellan21–26
  8. Raphael21
  9. Albrecht Dürer33
  10. Vasco da Gama34–46
  11. Hernán Cortés18–19
  12. Jacques Cartier12
  13. Erasmus38
  14. Suleiman the Magnificent10
  15. Mimar Sinan11–16
  16. François Rabelais9–10
  17. Thomas More24–28
  18. Charles V4
  19. Nostradamus1
  20. Henry VIII of England13
  21. Sandro Botticelli56–61
  22. Amerigo Vespucci50
  23. Titian11–16
  24. Babur21
  25. Guru Nanak35
  26. Paracelsus11
  27. Ignatius of Loyola11–15
  28. Anne Boleyn3
  29. Isabella I of Castile53 †
  30. Huldrych Zwingli20
  31. Julius II61
  32. Gregory XIII2
  33. Leo X29
  34. Hieronymus Bosch51–56
  35. Paul III36
  36. Ludovico Ariosto30
  37. Francis I of France10
  38. Pius Vborn
  39. Ferdinand II of Aragon52
  40. Francisco Pizarro24–28