Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1522?

32 of the people we track were surely alive in 1522. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

  1. Michelangelo47
  2. Martin Luther39
  3. Niccolò Machiavelli53
  4. Nicolaus Copernicus49
  5. Albrecht Dürer51
  6. Vasco da Gama52–64
  7. Hernán Cortés36–37
  8. Jacques Cartier30
  9. Erasmus56
  10. Suleiman the Magnificent28
  11. Mimar Sinan29–34
  12. John Calvin13
  13. François Rabelais27–28
  14. Thomas More42–46
  15. Charles V22
  16. Nostradamus19
  17. Henry VIII of England31
  18. Titian29–34
  19. Teresa of Ávila7
  20. Babur39
  21. Guru Nanak53
  22. Paracelsus29
  23. Ignatius of Loyola29–33
  24. Anne Boleyn21
  25. Mary I6
  26. Huldrych Zwingli38
  27. Gregory XIII20
  28. Paul III54
  29. Ludovico Ariosto48
  30. Francis I of France28
  31. Pius V18
  32. Francisco Pizarro42–46