Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1505?

39 of the people we track were surely alive in 1505. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci53
  2. Michelangelo30
  3. Martin Luther22
  4. Christopher Columbus53–54
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli36
  6. Nicolaus Copernicus32
  7. Ferdinand Magellan22–27
  8. Raphael22
  9. Albrecht Dürer34
  10. Vasco da Gama35–47
  11. Hernán Cortés19–20
  12. Jacques Cartier13
  13. Erasmus39
  14. Suleiman the Magnificent11
  15. Mimar Sinan12–17
  16. François Rabelais10–11
  17. Thomas More25–29
  18. Charles V5
  19. Nostradamus2
  20. Henry VIII of England14
  21. Sandro Botticelli57–62
  22. Amerigo Vespucci51
  23. Titian12–17
  24. Babur22
  25. Guru Nanak36
  26. Paracelsus12
  27. Ignatius of Loyola12–16
  28. Anne Boleyn4
  29. Huldrych Zwingli21
  30. Julius II62
  31. Gregory XIII3
  32. Leo X30
  33. Hieronymus Bosch52–57
  34. Paul III37
  35. Ludovico Ariosto31
  36. Francis I of France11
  37. Pius V1
  38. Ferdinand II of Aragon53
  39. Francisco Pizarro25–29