Who was alive in the 15th century

64 people and 15 events and eras

Events and eras

• Silk Road c. 130 BCE–c. 1450 CE
• Byzantine Empire 330–1453
• Middle Ages c. 500–c. 1500
• Ottoman Empire c. 1299–1922
• Hundred Years' War 1337–1453
• Italian Renaissance c. 1340–c. 1550
• Ming Dynasty 1368–1644
• Age of Discovery c. 1420–c. 1650
• Northern Renaissance c. 1450–c. 1600
• Printing press in Europe 1450
• Fall of Constantinople 1453
• English Renaissance c. 1485–c. 1660
• Tudor Period 1485–1603
• Columbus reaches the Bahamas 1492
• Early Modern Period c. 1500–c. 1800

People

• Ibn Khaldun 1332–1406, historian
• Timur 1336–1405, conqueror
• Christine de Pizan 1364–c. 1430, writer
• Zheng He 1371–1433, admiral
• Jan Hus c. 1372–1415, religious reformer
• Filippo Brunelleschi 1377–1446, architect
• Donatello c. 1386–1466, sculptor
• Henry V 1386–1422, king
• Cosimo de' Medici 1389–1464, banker
• Jan van Eyck c. 1390–1441, painter
• Gendün Drubpa 1391–1474, Buddhist leader
• Henry the Navigator 1394–1460, prince
• Fra Angelico c. 1395–1455, painter
• Jacques Cœur c. 1395–1456, merchant
• Johannes Gutenberg c. 1400–1468, printer
• Masaccio 1401–1428, painter
• Joan of Arc c. 1412–1431, military leader
• Tomás de Torquemada 1420–1498, inquisitor
• Vlad the Impaler c. 1428–c. 1477, ruler
• Mehmed II 1432–1481, sultan
• Donato Bramante 1444–1514, architect
• Sandro Botticelli c. 1445–1510, painter
• Lorenzo de' Medici 1449–1492, ruler
• Bartolomeu Dias c. 1450–1500, explorer
• Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450–1516, painter
• John Cabot c. 1450–c. 1500, explorer
• 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