Celebrity Deaths 1500-1599

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

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Hint	Year	Answer
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.

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