Who was alive in 1470?

843 well-known people were alive in 1470, including Leonardo da Vinci, Christopher Columbus, Niccolò Machiavelli. Here are the 80 most notable:

Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) — Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
Christopher Columbus (1451–1506) — Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506)
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) — Italian diplomat and political and military theorist (1469–1527)
Vasco da Gama (1460–1525) — Portuguese explorer (c. 1460s – 1524)
Erasmus (1466–1536) — Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, and theologian (1466-1536)
Mehmed II (1432–1481) — seventh Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1444–1446, 1451–1481)
Américo Vespucio (1454–1512) — Florentine explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer
Sandro Botticelli (1445–1510) — Italian painter (1445–1510)
Guru Nanak (1469–1539) — First Sikh Guru and founder of Sikhism
Isabella I of Castile (1451–1504) — queen of the Crown of Castile, from 1474 to 1504; first queen of a dynastically-united Spain, from 1479 to 1504 (1451–1504)
Alexander VI (1431–1503) — pope of the Catholic Church 1492–1503 from the Borgia family (1430/32-1503)
Julius II (1443–1513) — pope of the Catholic Church from 1503 to 1513 (1443–1513)
Paul III (1468–1549) — pope of the Catholic Church from 1534 to 1549 (1468–1549)
Hieronymus Bosch (1450–1516) — Dutch painter (c. 1450–1516)
Vlad the Impaler (1431–1476) — 15th-century ruler of Wallachia
Ferdinand II of Aragon (1452–1516) — King of Aragon, Sicily, Naples, and Valencia (1452-1516)
Selim I (1470–1520) — 9th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1512 to 1520
Richard III of England (1452–1485) — king of England from 1483 to 1485
Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472) — Italian architect and writer (1404-1472)
Jami (1414–1492) — Persian poet (1414–1492)
Adrian VI (1459–1523) — pope of the Catholic Church from 1522 to 1523 (1459–1523)
Louis XI of France (1423–1483) — king of France from 1461 to 1483 (1423–1483)
Lorenzo de' Medici (1449–1492) — Italian politician, literary man and humanist
Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498) — Italian Dominican friar and preacher (1452-1498)
Sixtus IV (1414–1484) — pope of the Catholic Church from 1471 to 1484
Henry VII of England (1457–1509) — King of England from 1485 to 1509
Innocent VIII (1432–1492) — pope of the Catholic Church from 1484 to 1492
Louis XII of France (1462–1515) — King of France from 1498 to 1515
Pedro Álvares Cabral (1467–1520) — Portuguese military commander and explorer (c.1467/8 – c.1521)
Kabir (1398–) — 15th-century Indian mystic poet and saint
Paul II (1417–1471) — pope of the Catholic Church from 1464 to 1471
Maximilian I (1459–1519) — Holy Roman Emperor (1459-1519)
Pius III (1439–1503) — pope of the Catholic Church from 22 September to 18 October 1503
Bartolomeu Dias (1467–1500) — Portuguese explorer
Selim i (1447–1512) — the eighth Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1481–1512)
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494) — Italian Renaissance philosopher (1463–1494)
Henry VI of England (1421–1471) — King of England from 1422 to 1461 and from 1470 to 1471, disputed King of France from 1422 to 1453
Edward IV of England (1442–1483) — King of England from 1461 to 1470 and 1471 to 1483
Donato Bramante (1444–1514) — Italian architect and painter (1444–1514)
Thomas à Kempis (1379–1471) — German canon regular
Charles VIII of France (1470–1498) — King of France from 1483 to 1498
Giovanni Bellini (1430–1516) — 15th- and 16th-century Italian Renaissance painter (1430–1516)
Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499) — Italian philosopher and Catholic priest (1433–1499)
Ivan III of Moscow (1440–1505) — Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1462 to 1505
Domenico Ghirlandaio (1448–1494) — Italian Renaissance painter from Florence (1448–1494)
Luca Pacioli (1440–1517) — Italian father of accounting (*~1445 – †1517)
Ali-Shir Nava'i (1441–1501) — Turkic poet and politician (1441–1501)
Matthias Corvinus (1443–1490) — King of Hungary and Bohemia, Duke of Austria (1443-1490)
Piero della Francesca (1415–1492) — Italian painter and mathematician (c. 1416–1492)
Andrea Mantegna (1431–1506) — Italian Renaissance painter (1431-1506)
John Cabot (1450–1498) — Italian navigator and explorer (c. 1450 – c. 1499)
Afonso de Albuquerque (1453–1515) — Portuguese general, admiral, and statesman (1453–1515)
Edward V of England (1470–1483) — king of England in 1483 (1470-1483)
Moctezuma II (1466–1520) — 9th tlatoani of Tenochtitlan and ruler of the Aztec Triple Alliance (1466-1520)
Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (1415–1493) — Holy Roman Emperor and Austrian archduke and duke (1452–1493)
Charles the Bold (1433–1477) — last Valois Duke of Burgundy (1433-1477)
Andrea del Verrocchio (1435–1488) — 15th century Italian sculptor, goldsmith and painter (c.1435-1488)
Pietro Perugino (1448–1523) — Italian Renaissance painter of the Umbrian school (1448-1523)
Juan Ponce de León (1460–1521) — Spanish explorer and conquistador
Piri Reis (1470–1553) — Turkish admiral and cartographer
Christian I of Denmark (1426–1481) — Scandinavian monarch under the Kalmar Union (1426-1481)
Manuel I of Portugal (1469–1521) — King of Portugal from 1495 to 1521
Paolo Uccello (1397–1475) — Italian painter (1397-1475)
Tomás de Torquemada (1420–1498) — Grand Inquisitor of Spain (1420-1498)
Antonello da Messina (1430–1479) — Italian Renaissance painter (1430–1479)
James III of Scotland (1451–1488) — King of Scotland from 1460 to 1488 (1451–1488)
John II of Portugal (1455–1495) — Portuguese king
Guillaume Dufay (1397–1474) — composer of the Renaissance (1397–1474)
Elizabeth of York (1466–1503) — Queen of England
Afonso V of Portugal (1432–1481) — King of Portugal and the Algarves
Mary of Burgundy (1457–1482) — duchess of Burgundy and wife of emperor Maximilian I (1457-1482)
Regiomontanus (1436–1476) — German mathematician and astronomer (1436–1476)
Margaret of Anjou (1430–1482) — 15th-century English royal consort (1430-1482)
Stephen III of Moldavia (1433–1504) — Prince of Moldavia from 1457 to 1504
Ludovico Sforza (1452–1508) — duke of Milan
Hans Memling (1435–1494) — German/Flemish painter (c. 1430–1494)
Josquin des Prez (1440–1521) — composer of the Renaissance (c. 1450–1521)
Aldus Manutius (1450–1515) — Italian printer and humanist (1449-1515)
Sigismund I the Old (1467–1548) — King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania
Casimir IV Jagiellon (1427–1492) — King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania

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