Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1511?

38 of the people we track were surely alive in 1511. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci59
  2. Michelangelo36
  3. Martin Luther28
  4. Niccolò Machiavelli42
  5. Nicolaus Copernicus38
  6. Ferdinand Magellan28–33
  7. Raphael28
  8. Albrecht Dürer40
  9. Vasco da Gama41–53
  10. Hernán Cortés25–26
  11. Jacques Cartier19
  12. Erasmus45
  13. Suleiman the Magnificent17
  14. Mimar Sinan18–23
  15. John Calvin2
  16. François Rabelais16–17
  17. Thomas More31–35
  18. Charles V11
  19. Nostradamus8
  20. Henry VIII of England20
  21. Amerigo Vespucci57
  22. Titian18–23
  23. Babur28
  24. Guru Nanak42
  25. Paracelsus18
  26. Ignatius of Loyola18–22
  27. Anne Boleyn10
  28. Huldrych Zwingli27
  29. Julius II68
  30. Gregory XIII9
  31. Leo X36
  32. Hieronymus Bosch58–63
  33. Paul III43
  34. Ludovico Ariosto37
  35. Francis I of France17
  36. Pius V7
  37. Ferdinand II of Aragon59
  38. Francisco Pizarro31–35