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Born in 1497

19 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Mōri Motonari

    daimyo, bushi

    1497–1571 · aged 74

    April 25 · 1497

    No external source identified

  2. Pedro de Valdivia

    conquistador, politician

    1497–1554 · aged 56

    April 26 · 1497

    No external source identified

  3. Philipp Melanchthon

    university teacher, astronomer

    1497–1560 · aged 63

    February 25 · 1497

    Source: BnF authorities

  4. Go-Nara

    sovereign

    1497–1557 · aged 60

    February 4 · 1497

    Source: kotobank.jp

  5. Anne Seymour, Duchess of Somerset

    Date disputed

    1497

    Source: A historical dictionary of British women

  6. John Heywood

    poet, aphorist

    1497–1580

    1497

    Source: Great Norwegian Encyclopedia

  7. Gonzalo de Sandoval

    military personnel, explorer

    1497–1528

    1497

    Source: MAK

  8. Edward Hall

    writer, jurist

    1497–1547

    1497

    Source: British Museum person-institution thesaurus

  9. Francesco Canova da Milano

    lutenist, composer

    1497–1543 · aged 45

    August 27 · 1497

    No external source identified

  10. Wolfgang Musculus

    Protestant reformer, lexicographer

    1497–1563 · aged 65

    September 19 · 1497

    No external source identified

  11. Francesco Berni

    poet, playwright

    Date disputed

    1497

    Source: SNAC

  12. Margareta Eriksdotter Vasa

    1497–1536

    1497

    Source: Genealogics

  13. Shō Sei

    king

    1497–1555

    1497

    Source: mairi.me

  14. Lopo Homem

    cartographer

    1497–1572

    1497

    No external source identified

  15. Niccolò Tribolo

    architect, sculptor

    1497–1550 · aged 53

    May 26 · 1497

    No external source identified

  16. Hara Toratane

    samurai

    1497–1564

    1497

    No external source identified

  17. Benedetto Accolti the Younger

    Catholic bishop, Catholic priest

    1497–1549 · aged 51

    November 7 · 1497

    Source: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani

  18. Sigismund Gelenius

    philologist, philosopher

    1497–1554

    1497

    Source: BnF authorities

  19. Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

    aristocrat

    1497–1546 · aged 48

    June 27 · 1497

    No external source identified

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