Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1515?

37 of the people we track were surely alive in 1515. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1515: Teresa of Ávila.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci63
  2. Michelangelo40
  3. Martin Luther32
  4. Niccolò Machiavelli46
  5. Nicolaus Copernicus42
  6. Ferdinand Magellan32–37
  7. Raphael32
  8. Albrecht Dürer44
  9. Vasco da Gama45–57
  10. Hernán Cortés29–30
  11. Jacques Cartier23
  12. Erasmus49
  13. Suleiman the Magnificent21
  14. Mimar Sinan22–27
  15. John Calvin6
  16. François Rabelais20–21
  17. Thomas More35–39
  18. Charles V15
  19. Nostradamus12
  20. Henry VIII of England24
  21. Titian22–27
  22. Teresa of Ávilaborn
  23. Babur32
  24. Guru Nanak46
  25. Paracelsus22
  26. Ignatius of Loyola22–26
  27. Anne Boleyn14
  28. Huldrych Zwingli31
  29. Gregory XIII13
  30. Leo X40
  31. Hieronymus Bosch62–67
  32. Paul III47
  33. Ludovico Ariosto41
  34. Francis I of France21
  35. Pius V11
  36. Ferdinand II of Aragon63
  37. Francisco Pizarro35–39