Celebrity Deaths 1500-1599

Paying tribute to the famous people we've lost from 1500-1599 – in memoriam

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Portuguese discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope

1500

Bartolomeu Dias

Queen of Castile from 1474 until she died in 1504

1504

Queen Isabella of Castille

The explorer who opened the door to the Americas

1506

Christopher Columbus

The explorer after whom the Americas are named

1512

Amerigo Vespucci

King of Aragon from 1479 until his death in 1516

1516

Ferdinand of Aragon

The Flemish painter who did 'Garden of Earthly Delights'

1516

Hieronymus Bosch

Painter of the Mona Lisa

1519

Leonardo da Vinci

High Renaissance painter of The School of Athens

1520

Raphael

The leader of the Aztecs at the time of the Spanish conquest

1520

Montezuma II

Explorer who first circumnavigated the Earth

1521

Ferdinand Magellan

Portugese explorer who opened up sea route to India

1524

Vasco da Gama

The humanist scholar who wrote The Praise of Folly

1526

Erasmus

Italian diplomat best known for his political treatise The Prince

1526

Niccolo Machiavelli

Germany's great Renaissance illustrator and printmaker

1528

Albrecht Dürer

The author of Utopia

1535

Thomas More

The beheaded wife of Henry VIII

1536

Anne Boleyn

First wife of Henry VIII

1536

Catherine of Aragon

The 3rd wife of King Henry VIII

1536

Queen Jane Seymour

The Spaniard who conquered the Incas

1541

Francisco Pizarro

Astronomer who said that the sun is the center of our solar system

1543

Nicolas Copernicus

German monk who started Protestant Reformation

1546

Martin Luther

The Spaniard who took Mexico from the Aztecs

1547

Hernan Cortes

Master sculptor of The David

1564

Michelangelo

French physician who made creepy predictions

1566

Nostradamus

Longest-reigning Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

1566

Suleiman the Magnificent

Renaissance Venetian master who painted Venus of Urbino

1576

Titian

The first czar of Russia from 1547 to 1584

1584

Ivan the Terrible

The pope who changed the calendar in 1582

1585

Pope Gregory XIII

The Flemish map maker whose 1569 map we all recognize

1594

Gerardus Mercator

The English mariner who circumnavigated the globe

1596

Francis Drake

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2 Comments

Level 92

Dec 20, 2021

Why doesn't Isabella or Ferdinand work? The other components of their answers are already in the question so it seems like the names alone should be enough.

Level 54

Dec 20, 2021

You are right, thanks for that! It has been corrected.