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Meera, better known as Mirabai, and venerated as Sant Meerabai, was a 16th-century Hindu mystic poet and devotee of Krishna. She is a celebrated Bhakti saint, particularly in the North Indian Hindu tradition. She is mentioned in Bhaktamal, confirming that she was widely known and a cherished figure in the Bhakti movement by about 1600. In her poems, she expressed her surrender towards Krishna often referring to herself as his daasi (servant).

Eleanor of Austria

Queen consort of Portugal and France (1498-1558)

Giovanni delle Bande Nere

Italian condottiero (1498-1526)

Hieronymus Bock

German botanist (1498-1554)

Illuminator, miniaturist, and painter, (1498-1578)

Maarten van Heemskerck

Dutch painter (1498–1574)

Sophie of Pomerania

Queen consort of Denmark and Norway

Miguel da Paz, Prince of Portugal

Portuguese prince (1498-1500)

Moretto da Brescia

Italian Renaissance painter (c.1498-1554)

Andreas Osiander

German Protestant reformer, 1498-1552

Madeleine de La Tour d'Auvergne

Duchess consort of Urbino and Duchess suo jure of Lauragais

Pier Paolo Vergerio

Italian diplomat and theologian

Jean, Cardinal of Lorraine

Catholic cardinal (1498-1550)

George I of Württemberg-Mömpelgard

Count of Württemberg-Montbéliard

Ottoman admiral

Wilhelm von Brandenburg

Roman Catholic archbishop resided in Livonia (1498–1563)

Johannes Honter

Transylvanian Saxon renaissance humanist

Tamás Nádasdy

Hungarian noble (1498–1562)

Girolamo da Treviso the Younger

Italian painter (1497-1544)

French military leader

Lancelot Blondeel

Flemish painter (1498-1561)

Raja Bharmal, also known as Bihari Mal, and Bihar Mal (1498 – 27 January 1574), was the 23rd ruler of Amber, which was later known as Jaipur. He was a ruler of the Kachhwaha clan.

André de Resende

father of archaeology in Portugal, a Dominican friar

Italian cardinal

Jerónimo de Loayza

Spanish Roman Catholic archbishop of Lima (ca. 1489 - 1575)

Christoph Weiditz the Elder

German painter, sculptor, engraver, medallist and goldsmith (1498–1559)

Giovanni Borgia

Marius Nizolius

Italian academic

Giambattista Gelli

Catholic cardinal

Giovanni Michele Saraceni

Catholic cardinal

Philiberte of Savoy

Italian noblewoman (1498-1524)

Francesco Galigai

Italian mathematician (1498-1537)

Tommaso Fazello

Italian historian and theologian (1498-1570)

Francesco of Saluzzo

Marquess of Saluzzo

Claudia of Châlon

the second wife of Henry III of Nassau-Breda, whom she had married in 1515

John, Hereditary Prince of Saxony

Sigismondo Malatesta

16th-century Italian condottiero (1498 - 1553)

Hernando de Aragón y Gurrea

Roman Catholic archbishop

poet, wife of Yang Shen

Johannes Baptista Montanus

Italian physician (1498–1551)

Ismail Adil Shah

Sultan of Bijapur

Isabel de Borja y Enríquez

Spanish noblewoman and nun, granddaughter of Pope Alexander VI (1498-1547)

Bernardo Cappello

Zhuang warrior, general and politician