Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1508?

38 of the people we track were surely alive in 1508. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci56
  2. Michelangelo33
  3. Martin Luther25
  4. Niccolò Machiavelli39
  5. Nicolaus Copernicus35
  6. Ferdinand Magellan25–30
  7. Raphael25
  8. Albrecht Dürer37
  9. Vasco da Gama38–50
  10. Hernán Cortés22–23
  11. Jacques Cartier16
  12. Erasmus42
  13. Suleiman the Magnificent14
  14. Mimar Sinan15–20
  15. François Rabelais13–14
  16. Thomas More28–32
  17. Charles V8
  18. Nostradamus5
  19. Henry VIII of England17
  20. Sandro Botticelli60–65
  21. Amerigo Vespucci54
  22. Titian15–20
  23. Babur25
  24. Guru Nanak39
  25. Paracelsus15
  26. Ignatius of Loyola15–19
  27. Anne Boleyn7
  28. Huldrych Zwingli24
  29. Julius II65
  30. Gregory XIII6
  31. Leo X33
  32. Hieronymus Bosch55–60
  33. Paul III40
  34. Ludovico Ariosto34
  35. Francis I of France14
  36. Pius V4
  37. Ferdinand II of Aragon56
  38. Francisco Pizarro28–32