1494 births

the tenth and greatest Sultan of Ottoman Empire (1520–1566)

King of France from 1515 to 1547 (1494-1547)

German mineralogist (1494-1555)

Jacopo Carucci or Carrucci (; May 24, 1494 – January 2, 1557), usually known as Jacopo (da) Pontormo or simply Pontormo (), was an Italian Mannerist painter and portraitist from the Florentine School. His work represents a profound stylistic shift from the calm perspectival regularity that characterized the art of the Florentine Renaissance. He is famous for his use of twining poses, coupled with ambiguous perspective; his figures often seem to float in an uncertain environment, unhampered by the forces of gravity.

German meistersinger ("mastersinger"), poet, playwright and shoemaker (1494–1576)

Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania

artist, painter (1494-1533)

French mathematician and cartographer (*1494 – †1555)

Italian mathematician and astronomer (*1494 – †1575)

Danish religious reformer

Duchess consort of Guise

Reformer, humanist (1494-1566)

Noblewoman of Sweden and leader of resistance to Christian II of Denmark (1494-1559)

Sengoku period Japanese samurai

Spanish theologian, jurist and scientist

Spanish explorer and cartographer

Chinese painter (1494–1552)

daimyo who controlled the Province of Kai

Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller

Italian Renaissance painter (1494-1557)

Italian cardinal, bishop of Padua 1494-1570

Guru Nanak's son

Duchess consort of Lorraine

Count Palatine of Neumarkt, governor of the Upper Palatinate

Princess of Anhalt by birth, by marriage Duchess of Saxony

Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach by birth and Margravine of Baden by marriage

Taşköprüzade or Taşköprülüzade Ahmet (), pseudonym of Aḥmad ibn Muṣṭafá ibn Khalīl Ṭāshkubrīʹzādah (; Bursa, 3 December 1495 – Istanbul, 16 April 1561), was an Ottoman Turkish historian and chronicler living during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, who was famous for his great biographical encyclopedia titled Al-Shaqāʾiq al-Nuʿmāniyya fī ʿUlamāʾ al-Dawla al-ʿUthmāniyya ().

German academic

Italian artist (1494-1576)

Count of Hohenzollern

Doge of the Republic of Genoa

Italian painter (1494-1528)

Kashmiri Sufi Saint

French explorer and poet

Silesian rector, pastor and theologian (1494-1554)

Ottoman Islamic scholar (1494–1570)

German mathematician

Italian sculptor (1494-1576)

Italian condottiero (1494-1549)

Duchess consort of Guelders

Italian artist (1494-1553)

royal consort of King Jungjong of Joseon

Czech traveller

politician

Croatian writer

Danish politician (1494-1570)

English knight