Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1506?

39 of the people we track were surely alive in 1506. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 1506: Christopher Columbus.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci54
  2. Michelangelo31
  3. Martin Luther23
  4. Christopher Columbus54 or 55 †
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli37
  6. Nicolaus Copernicus33
  7. Ferdinand Magellan23–28
  8. Raphael23
  9. Albrecht Dürer35
  10. Vasco da Gama36–48
  11. Hernán Cortés20–21
  12. Jacques Cartier14
  13. Erasmus40
  14. Suleiman the Magnificent12
  15. Mimar Sinan13–18
  16. François Rabelais11–12
  17. Thomas More26–30
  18. Charles V6
  19. Nostradamus3
  20. Henry VIII of England15
  21. Sandro Botticelli58–63
  22. Amerigo Vespucci52
  23. Titian13–18
  24. Babur23
  25. Guru Nanak37
  26. Paracelsus13
  27. Ignatius of Loyola13–17
  28. Anne Boleyn5
  29. Huldrych Zwingli22
  30. Julius II63
  31. Gregory XIII4
  32. Leo X31
  33. Hieronymus Bosch53–58
  34. Paul III38
  35. Ludovico Ariosto32
  36. Francis I of France12
  37. Pius V2
  38. Ferdinand II of Aragon54
  39. Francisco Pizarro26–30