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Military Leaders & Strategists

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Louis II de La Trémoille (The Knight Without Reproach)

Louis II de La Trémoille

Kingdom of France

1460 – 1525 (64 years old)

Premier French general of the Italian Wars who won the Battle of Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier, conquered Milan for Louis XII, and fell fighting at Pavia.

Thouars, France

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Shah Ismail I

شاه اسماعیل یکم (Hata'i)

Iran

1487 – 1524 (36 years old)

Founder of the Safavid Empire who unified Iran, established Twelver Shia Islam as the state religion, and was a major Azerbaijani poet.

Ardabil, Iran

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Military Leaders & Strategists

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Pierre Terrail, Seigneur de Bayard

Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard

Kingdom of France

1 – 1524 (48 years old)

French knight and commander immortalized as 'The Knight Without Fear and Beyond Reproach', who held the bridge of Garigliano single-handedly.

Grenoble, France

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Selim I (Yavuz Sultan Selim / Selim the Grim)

سليم اول / Yavuz Sultan Selim

Ottoman Empire (Turkey)

1470 – 1520 (49 years old)

Ninth Ottoman Sultan who tripled the size of the Ottoman Empire in just eight years, conquered the Mamluk Sultanate, and assumed the Caliphate.

Fatih, Istanbul, Turkey

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Arts & Music

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Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Raphael)

Raffaello Sanzio

Italy

6 April 1483 – 6 April 1520 (37 years old)

Supreme High Renaissance master celebrated as the 'Prince of Painters', whose monumental frescoes in the Vatican Stanze (including The School of Athens) and tender Madonnas personify classical harmony and compositional serenity.

Rome, Italy

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Religious Figures & Theologians

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Ravidas

रविदास

Sultanate of Delhi

c. 1450 – c. 1520 (70 years old)

Eminent Bhakti saint, leather-worker (Chamar), and social emancipator who envisioned 'Begumpura' (a sorrowless utopian city of equality) and contributed 41 hymns to the Guru Granth Sahib.

Varanasi, India

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Arts & Music

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Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

Italy

1452 – 1519 (67 years old)

The quintessential Renaissance genius whose boundless curiosity was equaled only by his powers of invention. Master of the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, and visionary anatomical treatises.

Amboise, France

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Aruj Barbarossa

عروج بربروس

Ottoman Empire

c. 1474 – 1518 (44 years old)

Legendary Ottoman-Algerian privateer known as 'Redbeard' (Baba Aruj) who rescued thousands of Andalusian Muslims and Jews from Spain, seized Algiers in 1516, and founded the Regency of Algiers.

El Malah (Aïn Témouchent), Algeria

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Philosophy & Thought

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Kabir Das

कबीर दास

🌐 Delhi Sultanate

c. 1398 – c. 1518 (120 years old)

Celebrated 15th-century mystic poet-philosopher and weaver whose biting couplets (Dohas) pierced through the hypocrisies of both Hindu caste orthodoxy and Muslim dogmatism, teaching the formless truth of the divine (Nirguna Ram).

Maghar (Uttar Pradesh), India

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Arts & Music

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Giovanni Bellini

Giovanni Bellini

Republic of Venice

c. 1430 – 1516 (86 years old)

Father of the Venetian Renaissance painting school who revolutionized oil painting, atmospheric golden light, and landscape backgrounds, mentoring Giorgione and Titian.

Venice, Italy

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Arts & Music

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Hieronymus Bosch

Jheronimus van Aken

Netherlands

1 – 1516 (66 years old)

Visionary Early Netherlandish painter renowned for fantastical triptychs depicting bizarre hybrid creatures, sin, and surreal visions of Hell.

's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Ferdinand II of Aragon

Fernando II de Aragón (El Católico)

Crown of Aragon (Spain)

1452 – 1516 (63 years old)

King of Aragon and Sicily whose marriage to Isabella of Castile unified Spain; praised by Machiavelli as the archetype of royal statecraft.

Granada, Andalusia, Spain

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Military Leaders & Strategists

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Afonso de Albuquerque (The Caesar of the East)

Afonso de Albuquerque

Kingdom of Portugal

1 – 1515 (62 years old)

Portuguese naval admiral, general, and 2nd Governor of India whose audacious naval strategy conquered Goa, Malacca, and Ormuz, securing the spice routes.

Lisbon, Portugal

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Resistance & Human Rights

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Hatuey

Hatuey

Caribbean

c. 1475 – 1512 (37 years old)

Taino cacique from Hispaniola acclaimed as the 'First National Hero of Cuba' and 'First Rebel of the Americas', who sailed canoes across the Windward Passage to warn Cuban Tainos of Spanish atrocities, leading the first armed guerrilla resistance in Cuba.

Yara (Granma), Cuba

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Arts & Music

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Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco

Giorgione

Republic of Venice

c. 1477 – c. 1510 (33 years old)

Venetian High Renaissance pioneer whose enigmatic masterworks 'The Tempest' and 'Sleeping Venus' founded poetic landscape painting and moody, evocative tonalism.

Venice, Italy

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Arts & Music

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Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi (Sandro Botticelli)

Sandro Botticelli

Italy

1445 – 17 May 1510 (~65 years old)

Florentine Early Renaissance master whose mythological masterpieces The Birth of Venus and Primavera captured the humanist Neoplatonism of the Lorenzo the Magnificent Medici court with lyrical linear grace.

Florence, Italy

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Religious Figures & Theologians

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Isaac ben Judah Abravanel

יצחק אברבנאל

Kingdom of Portugal

1437 – 1508 (71 years old)

Statesman, royal treasurer to Ferdinand and Isabella, and prolific biblical commentator who led Spanish Jews in the Expulsion of 1492 and authored messianic treatises.

Padua, Italy

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Arts & Music

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Andrea Mantegna

Andrea Mantegna

Italy

1 – 1506 (75 years old)

Italian Renaissance pioneer of illusionistic perspective, extreme foreshortening, and archaeological Roman classical precision.

Mantua, Italy

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