Who was alive in the 16th century

85 people and 12 events and eras

Events and eras

• Ottoman Empire c. 1299–1922
• Italian Renaissance c. 1340–c. 1550
• Ming Dynasty 1368–1644
• Age of Discovery c. 1420–c. 1650
• Northern Renaissance c. 1450–c. 1600
• English Renaissance c. 1485–c. 1660
• Tudor Period 1485–1603
• Early Modern Period c. 1500–c. 1800
• Protestant Reformation 1517–1648
• Mughal Empire 1526–1857
• Scientific Revolution 1543–c. 1687
• Baroque Period c. 1600–c. 1750

People

• Donato Bramante 1444–1514, architect
• Sandro Botticelli c. 1445–1510, painter
• Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450–1516, painter
• Christopher Columbus c. 1451–1506, explorer
• Isabella I of Castile 1451–1504, queen
• Leonardo da Vinci 1452–1519, polymath
• Amerigo Vespucci 1454–1512, explorer
• Jakob Fugger 1459–1525, banker
• Vasco da Gama c. 1460–1524, explorer
• Piri Reis c. 1465–1553, admiral and cartographer
• Erasmus 1466–1536, humanist
• Pedro Álvares Cabral c. 1467–c. 1520, explorer
• Guru Nanak 1469–1539, religious leader
• Niccolò Machiavelli 1469–1527, political philosopher
• Albrecht Dürer 1471–1528, artist
• Wang Yangming 1472–1529, philosopher
• Nicolaus Copernicus 1473–1543, astronomer
• Juan Ponce de León 1474–1521, explorer
• Cesare Borgia 1475–1507, nobleman
• Michelangelo 1475–1564, artist
• Vasco Núñez de Balboa c. 1475–1519, explorer
• Francisco Pizarro c. 1478–1541, conquistador
• Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478–1546, admiral
• Thomas More 1478–1535, statesman and philosopher
• Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480–1521, explorer
• Lucrezia Borgia 1480–1519, noblewoman
• Martin Luther 1483–1546, religious leader
• Raphael 1483–1520, painter
• Hernán Cortés 1485–1547, conquistador
• Thomas Cromwell c. 1485–1540, statesman
• Juan Sebastián Elcano c. 1486–1526, explorer
• Titian c. 1488–1576, painter
• Sinan c. 1490–1588, architect
• Henry VIII 1491–1547, king
• Ignatius of Loyola 1491–1556, priest
• Jacques Cartier 1491–1557, explorer
• Paracelsus c. 1493–1541, physician
• François Rabelais c. 1494–1553, writer
• Suleiman the Magnificent 1494–1566, sultan
• Hans Holbein the Younger c. 1497–1543, painter
• Hernando de Soto c. 1500–1542, conquistador
• Anne Boleyn c. 1501–1536, queen consort
• Hürrem Sultan c. 1504–1558, Ottoman consort
• Andrea Palladio 1508–1580, architect
• John Calvin 1509–1564, theologian
• Andreas Vesalius 1514–1564, anatomist
• John Knox c. 1514–1572, religious leader
• Teresa of Ávila 1515–1582, mystic
• Tintoretto 1518–1594, painter
• Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525–1569, painter
• Grace O'Malley c. 1530–c. 1603, pirate
• Ivan the Terrible 1530–1584, tsar
• Elizabeth I 1533–1603, queen
• Michel de Montaigne 1533–1592, essayist
• Oda Nobunaga 1534–1582, warlord
• Francis Drake c. 1540–1596, explorer
• El Greco 1541–1614, painter
• Akbar 1542–1605, emperor
• Mary, Queen of Scots 1542–1587, queen
• Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543–1616, shogun
• Tycho Brahe 1546–1601, astronomer
• Miguel de Cervantes 1547–1616, writer
• Walter Raleigh c. 1552–1618, explorer
• Francis Bacon 1561–1626, philosopher
• Christopher Marlowe 1564–1593, playwright
• Galileo Galilei 1564–1642, astronomer
• William Shakespeare 1564–1616, playwright
• Henry Hudson c. 1565–1611, explorer
• Claudio Monteverdi 1567–1643, composer
• Samuel de Champlain c. 1567–1635, explorer
• Guy Fawkes 1570–1606, conspirator
• Caravaggio 1571–1610, painter
• Johannes Kepler 1571–1630, astronomer
• Peter Paul Rubens 1577–1640, painter
• William Harvey 1578–1657, physician
• Thomas Hobbes 1588–1679, philosopher
• Kösem Sultan c. 1589–1651, Ottoman regent
• Shah Jahan 1592–1666, emperor
• Artemisia Gentileschi 1593–c. 1656, painter
• Pocahontas c. 1596–1617, Native American figure
• René Descartes 1596–1650, philosopher
• Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598–1680, sculptor
• Anthony van Dyck 1599–1641, painter
• Diego Velázquez 1599–1660, painter
• Oliver Cromwell 1599–1658, statesman