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Renaissance Period: List of People

The Renaissance was defined by pioneering figures who reshaped Western civilization. Polymaths like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo revolutionized art and anatomy, while thinkers like Erasmus championed humanism. Gutenberg’s printing press transformed education, enabling thinkers like Copernicus and Galileo to lay the groundwork for modern science.

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Year	List of People
1433	Birth of Marcin Bylica (Location: Olkusz (Poland))
1452	Birth of Leonardo da Vinci (Location: Vinci, present-day Tuscany, Italy)
1469	Birth of John Fisher (Location: Beverley, Yorkshire)
1471	Birth of Albrecht Dürer (Location: Nuremberg (now Bavaria, Germany))
1472	Birth of Lucas Maler (Location: Kronach (now Bavaria, Germany))
1473	Birth of Nicolaus Copernicus (Location: Toruń, Poland)
1478	Birth of Thomas More (Location: London (City of London))
1480	Birth of Albrecht Altdorfer (Location: Regensburg (Germany) is the most widely accepted theory, though another theory points to Altdorf near Landshut) Birth of Matthias Grünewald (Location: Würzburg (Germany) is the dominant theory, though the exact birth place remains unconfirmed)
1482	Birth of Johannes Oecolampadius (Location: Weinsberg (present-day Baden-Württemberg, Germany))
1483	Birth of Martin Luther (Location: Eisleben (present-day Saxony-Anhalt, Germany))
1484	Birth of Georg Spalatin (Location: Spalt (present-day Bavaria, Germany))
1486	Birth of Andreas Karlstadt (Location: Karlstadt am Main (present-day Bavaria, Germany))
1487	Birth of Hugh Latimer (Location: Thurcaston, near present-day Leicester)
1489	Birth of Thomas Cranmer (Location: Aslockton, Nottinghamshire, England)
1490	Birth of Thomas Müntzer (Location: Stolberg (Harz, present-day Saxony-Anhalt, Germany))
1491	Birth of Henry Tudor (Location: Greenwich (London)) Birth of Martin Bucer (Location: Sélestat (formerly Schlettstadt, present-day Alsace, France))
1493	Death of Marcin Bylica
1494	Birth of William Tyndale (Location: Near Dursley, Gloucestershire)
1497	Birth of Hans Holbein (Location: Augsburg (now Bavaria, Germany)) Birth of Philip Melanchthon (Location: Bretten (present-day Baden-Württemberg, Germany))
1499	Birth of Jan Łaski (Location: Presumed to be Łask (present-day Łódź Voivodeship, Poland), though recent research states the exact place of birth cannot be definitively determined)
1500	Birth of Karl von Habsburg (Location: Ghent, present-day Belgium) Birth of Benvenuto Cellini (Location: Florence (Firenze), present-day Italy)
1503	Birth of Ferdinand von Habsburg (Location: Alcalá de Henares, Community of Madrid, Spain)
1508	Birth of Andrea Palladio (Location: Padua (Padova), present-day Veneto, Italy)
1510	Birth of Jean Goujon (Location: Around Rouen (Normandy, France) according to one theory, but birthplace is unconfirmed)
1512	Birth of Gerard de Kremer (Location: Rupelmonde, present-day part of Sint-Niklaas, Belgium)
1514	Birth of Philibert de l'Orme (Location: Lyon, present-day France) Birth of Andries van Wesel (Location: Brussels, present-day Belgium)
1515	Birth of Pierre Lescot (Location: Paris, France) Birth of Lucas Sunder (Location: Wittenberg (Germany))
1516	Birth of Mary Tudor (Location: Greenwich (London))
1517	Birth of John Foxe (Location: Boston, Lincolnshire)
1519	Death of Leonardo da Vinci
1522	Birth of John Jewel (Location: Berrynarbor, Devon)
1525	Death of Thomas Müntzer
1527	Birth of Maximilian von Habsburg (Location: Vienna, Austria)
1528	Death of Albrecht Dürer Birth of Maria von Habsburg (Location: Madrid, Spain) Birth of Maria von Spanien (Location: Madrid, Spain) Death of Matthias Grünewald
1531	Death of Johannes Oecolampadius
1533	Birth of Elizabeth Tudor (Location: Greenwich (London))
1535	Death of John Fisher Death of Thomas More
1536	Death of William Tyndale
1537	Birth of Edward Tudor (Location: East Molesey (Surrey))
1538	Death of Albrecht Altdorfer
1541	Death of Andreas Karlstadt
1543	Death of Nicolaus Copernicus Death of Hans Holbein
1545	Death of Georg Spalatin
1546	Death of Martin Luther
1547	Death of Henry Tudor
1548	Birth of Filippo Bruno (Location: Nola, present-day Campania, Italy)
1550	Birth of John Napier (Location: Edinburgh, present-day Scotland)
1551	Death of Martin Bucer
1552	Birth of Rudolf von Habsburg (Location: Vienna, Austria)
1553	Death of Edward Tudor Death of Lucas Maler
1554	Birth of Richard Hooker (Location: Exeter, Devon (Heavitree, in present-day Exeter))
1555	Death of Hugh Latimer
1556	Death of Thomas Cranmer
1558	Death of Karl von Habsburg Death of Mary Tudor
1560	Death of Jan Łaski Death of Philip Melanchthon
1564	Birth of Galileo Galilei (Location: Pisa, Italy) Death of Ferdinand von Habsburg Death of Andries van Wesel
1565	Death of Jean Goujon
1570	Death of Philibert de l'Orme
1571	Death of Benvenuto Cellini Death of John Jewel
1576	Death of Maximilian von Habsburg
1578	Death of Pierre Lescot
1580	Death of Andrea Palladio
1586	Death of Lucas Sunder
1587	Death of John Foxe
1594	Death of Gerard de Kremer
1600	Death of Filippo Bruno Death of Richard Hooker
1603	Death of Maria von Habsburg Death of Maria von Spanien Death of Elizabeth Tudor
1612	Death of Rudolf von Habsburg
1617	Death of John Napier
1642	Death of Galileo Galilei
1737	Birth of Jan Kanty Broziński (Location: Kraków (present-day Poland))
1794	Death of Jan Kanty Broziński

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