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MichelangeloMichelangelo carved one of his most famous works, the Pietà, before he turned 30, then sculpted David before the same milestone.
Ferdinand MagellanFerdinand Magellan died face down in the surf off a small island called Mactan, killed by a chief named Lapulapu and his men on the 27th of April 1521.
Henry VIIIHenry VIII once dressed all in yellow, with a white feather in his bonnet, the day after he learned that Catherine of Aragon had died.
Galileo GalileiGalileo Galilei was born in Pisa on the 15th of February 1564, the first of six children of a leading lutenist. He died on the 8th of January 1642, aged 77…
Charles V, Holy Roman EmperorCharles V was born during a ball in Ghent on the 24th of February 1500, and before he drew his last breath he had ruled more of the world than any Christian…
Catherine HowardCatherine Howard was Queen of England for barely sixteen months, and she was probably still a teenager when the axe fell on the 13th of February 1542.
RaphaelRaphael died on the 6th of April 1520, which was, by some accounts, his 37th birthday. Four cardinals dressed in purple carried his body through Rome.
Tomás Fernández de MedranoIn the year 1589, a document dated October 20 confirmed that Tomás Fernández de Medrano and his brothers were recognized as diviseros of Valdeosera.
François RabelaisFrançois Rabelais died in Paris in 1553, leaving behind four books that the Sorbonne had condemned, a fifth whose authorship scholars still argue over, and a…
John DowlandJohn Dowland was buried at St Ann's, Blackfriars, London, on the 20th of February 1626, and almost nothing of what he experienced in his final years found…
Gil VicenteThe year 1465 stands as the commonly accepted date for Gil Vicente's birth, though scholars have argued fiercely over this number for centuries.
Luís de CamõesLuís de Camões set sail from Lisbon on Palm Sunday, the 24th of March 1553, carrying nothing but his soldier's pay and the beginnings of a poem.
Benvenuto CelliniBenvenuto Cellini was born in Florence on the 3rd of November 1500, and by the time he died there on the 13th of February 1571, he had killed at least four…
Fernão Mendes PintoFernão Mendes Pinto left Lisbon on the 11th of March 1537 on a journey that would take him to the bottom of a slave market in Mocha, onto the Great Wall of…