War of the League of Cambrai 1508–1516

Belligerents: Holy Roman Empire, Kingdom of France, Republic of Venice, Republic of Florence, Papal States, Duchy of Milan, Kingdom of England, Kingdom of Navarre

Who lived through the War of the League of Cambrai

Well-known people alive during 1508–1516:

• Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) — Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
• Michelangelo (1475–1564) — Italian artist and architect (1475-1564)
• Martin Luther (1483–1546) — German priest and theologian (1483–1546)
• Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) — Italian diplomat and political and military theorist (1469–1527)
• Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) — Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
• Ferdinand Magellan (1480–1521) — Portuguese explorer in the service of Spain
• Raphael (1483–1520) — Italian painter and architect (1483–1520)
• Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) — German painter, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist (1471-1528)
• Vasco da Gama (1460–1525) — Portuguese explorer (c. 1460s – 1524)
• Hernán Cortés (1485–1547) — Spanish conquistador
• Jacques Cartier (1492–1557) — Breton maritime explorer of North America (1491–1557)
• Suleiman the Magnificent (1494–1566) — the tenth and greatest Sultan of Ottoman Empire (1520–1566)
• Erasmus (1466–1536) — Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, and theologian (1466-1536)
• Mimar Sinan (1490–1588) — 16th-century Ottoman chief architect and civil engineer
• John Calvin (1509–1564) — French Protestant reformer (1509-1564)
• François Rabelais (1494–1553) — 16th-century French writer and humanist (1494–1553)
• Thomas More (1478–1535) — English statesman, lawyer and philosopher (1478–1535)
• Charles V (1500–1558) — Holy Roman Emperor from 1519 to 1556 (1500–1558)
• Nostradamus (1503–1566) — French seer and astrologer (1503–1566)
• Henry VIII of England (1491–1547) — King of England from 1509 to 1547 (1491–1547)
• Américo Vespucio (1454–1512) — Florentine explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer
• Babur (1483–1531) — founder of the Mughal Empire (1526–1530)
• Titian (1490–1576) — Italian painter (c.1490–1576)
• Guru Nanak (1469–1539) — First Sikh Guru and founder of Sikhism
• Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556) — Spanish Catholic priest and theologian (1491–1556)

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