Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Al-Qaim Bi-Amrillah

القائم بأمر الله السعدي

Morocco

c. 1470 – 1517 (~47 years old)

Founder of the Saadian dynasty, proclaimed sovereign by the Sous tribes in 1511 to organize the armed resistance against Portuguese fortresses on the Atlantic coast.

Sous Region, Morocco

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Arts & Music

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Giovanni Bellini

Giovanni Bellini

Italy

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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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghuri

قانصوه الغوري

Russia

1441 – 1516 (75 years old)

Penultimate Mamluk Sultan of Egypt (1501–1516) whose magnificent architectural complex Wekalet al-Ghuri and madrasa remains the heart of medieval Cairo, falling heroically against Sultan Selim I at Marj Dabiq.

Cairo, Egypt

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghawri

قانصوه الغوري

Russia

1441 CE – August 24, 1516 CE (75 years old)

Penultimate Burji Mamluk Sultan who governed Egypt during the epochal geopolitical struggle against Portuguese maritime hegemony in the Indian Ocean and fell heroically in battle against Ottoman Sultan Selim I at Marj Dabiq.

Cairo, Egypt

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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)

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

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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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Sidi Ali al-Mandri

علي المنظري الغرناطي

Spain

c. 1450 – c. 1515 (65 years old)

Andalusian noble commander from Granada who crossed to Morocco following the fall of Granada in 1492, rebuilt the ruined city of Tetouan, and constructed its formidable defensive ramparts and Kasbah.

Tetouan, Morocco

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Prophets & Divine Messengers

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Anne of Brittany

Anne de Bretagne

France

1477 – 1514 (36 years old)

Sovereign Duchess of Brittany and the only woman in history crowned Queen of France twice (to Charles VIII and Louis XII), who fiercely guarded Breton autonomy and patronized Renaissance art and manuscripts.

Saint-Denis, France

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Sciences & Discovery

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Ibn Ghazi al-Miknasi

ابن غازي المكناسي

Morocco

1437 – 1513 (76 years old)

Polymathic 15th-century scholar of Meknes and Fez who held the chair of mathematics and Maliki law at the University of al-Qarawiyyin, author of the mathematical commentary Bughyat al-Tulab.

Fez, Morocco

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Sciences & Discovery

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Ibn Ghazi al-Fasi

ابن غازي المكناسي الفاسي

Morocco

1437 – 1513 (76 years old)

Distinguished Moroccan polymath, mathematician, and historian who served as chief Imam of al-Qarawiyyin and wrote foundational mathematical treatises and the first comprehensive history of Meknes.

Fez, Morocco

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Resistance & Human Rights

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Hatuey

Hatuey

🌐 Dominican Republic

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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Literature & Poetry

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Philippe de Commynes

Philippe de Commynes / Filips van Komen

Belgium

1447 – 1511 (64 years old)

Flemish-born diplomat and courtier whose landmark Mémoires provided the first realistic, psychological analysis of statecraft in Renaissance Europe, chronicling Louis XI and Charles the Bold.

Paris, France

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Arts & Music

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Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco

Giorgione

Italy

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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Philosophy & Thought

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Ahmad al-Wansharisi

أحمد بن يحيى الونشريسي

Algeria

c. 1430 CE – 1508 (~78 years old)

Towering North African Islamic jurist born in the Ouarsenis mountains of Algeria whose monumental twelve-volume encyclopedia 'Al-Mi'yar al-Mughrib' is the supreme legal compendium of Maghrebi jurisprudence.

Fez, Morocco

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Religion

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Abdelaziz ibn Abd al-Haqq al-Harrar al-Tebba

عبد العزيز بن عبد الحق الحرار التباع

Morocco

c. 1445 – 1508 (~63 years old)

Foremost spiritual heir of Imam Muhammad al-Jazuli who institutionalized the Jazuliyya Tariqa in Marrakech, renowned for humility as a silk merchant and revered among the Seven Saints.

Marrakech, Morocco

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Religious Figures & Theologians

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Isaac ben Judah Abravanel

יצחק אברבנאל

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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