Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1518?

36 of the people we track were surely alive in 1518. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci66
  2. Michelangelo43
  3. Martin Luther35
  4. Niccolò Machiavelli49
  5. Nicolaus Copernicus45
  6. Ferdinand Magellan35–40
  7. Raphael35
  8. Albrecht Dürer47
  9. Vasco da Gama48–60
  10. Hernán Cortés32–33
  11. Jacques Cartier26
  12. Erasmus52
  13. Suleiman the Magnificent24
  14. Mimar Sinan25–30
  15. John Calvin9
  16. François Rabelais23–24
  17. Thomas More38–42
  18. Charles V18
  19. Nostradamus15
  20. Henry VIII of England27
  21. Titian25–30
  22. Teresa of Ávila3
  23. Babur35
  24. Guru Nanak49
  25. Paracelsus25
  26. Ignatius of Loyola25–29
  27. Anne Boleyn17
  28. Mary I2
  29. Huldrych Zwingli34
  30. Gregory XIII16
  31. Leo X43
  32. Paul III50
  33. Ludovico Ariosto44
  34. Francis I of France24
  35. Pius V14
  36. Francisco Pizarro38–42