Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1526?

33 of the people we track were surely alive in 1526. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

  1. Michelangelo51
  2. Martin Luther43
  3. Niccolò Machiavelli57
  4. Nicolaus Copernicus53
  5. Albrecht Dürer55
  6. Hernán Cortés40–41
  7. Jacques Cartier34
  8. Erasmus60
  9. Suleiman the Magnificent32
  10. Mimar Sinan33–38
  11. John Calvin17
  12. François Rabelais31–32
  13. Thomas More46–50
  14. Charles V26
  15. Nostradamus23
  16. Henry VIII of England35
  17. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina1
  18. Luís de Camões1–2
  19. Titian33–38
  20. Teresa of Ávila11
  21. Babur43
  22. Guru Nanak57
  23. Paracelsus33
  24. Ignatius of Loyola33–37
  25. Anne Boleyn25
  26. Mary I10
  27. Huldrych Zwingli42
  28. Gregory XIII24
  29. Paul III58
  30. Ludovico Ariosto52
  31. Francis I of France32
  32. Pius V22
  33. Francisco Pizarro46–50