Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1525?

34 of the people we track were surely alive in 1525. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1525: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.

Died in 1525: Vasco da Gama.

  1. Michelangelo50
  2. Martin Luther42
  3. Niccolò Machiavelli56
  4. Nicolaus Copernicus52
  5. Albrecht Dürer54
  6. Vasco da Gama†
  7. Hernán Cortés39–40
  8. Jacques Cartier33
  9. Erasmus59
  10. Suleiman the Magnificent31
  11. Mimar Sinan32–37
  12. John Calvin16
  13. François Rabelais30–31
  14. Thomas More45–49
  15. Charles V25
  16. Nostradamus22
  17. Henry VIII of England34
  18. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrinaborn
  19. Luís de Camões0–1
  20. Titian32–37
  21. Teresa of Ávila10
  22. Babur42
  23. Guru Nanak56
  24. Paracelsus32
  25. Ignatius of Loyola32–36
  26. Anne Boleyn24
  27. Mary I9
  28. Huldrych Zwingli41
  29. Gregory XIII23
  30. Paul III57
  31. Ludovico Ariosto51
  32. Francis I of France31
  33. Pius V21
  34. Francisco Pizarro45–49