page_title: 1500
section_title: Births
hierarchical_section_title: 1500 / Births
caption_attribution_description: English: An elderly Karl V (also known as Don Carlos I of Spain), ruler of the Holy Roman Empire
context_page_description: Year 1500 was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. The year 1500 was not a leap year in the Proleptic Gregorian calendar.
  The year was seen as being especially important by many Christians in Europe, who thought it would bring the beginning of the end of the world. Their belief was based on the phrase "half-time after the time", when the apocalypse was due to occur, which appears in the Book of Revelation and was seen as referring to 1500. This time was also just after the Old World's discovery of the Americas in 1492, and therefore was influenced greatly by the New World.
  Historically, the year 1500 is also often identified, somewhat arbitrarily, as marking the end of the Middle Ages and beginning of the Early Modern Era.
context_section_description: January 1 – Solomon Molcho, Portuguese mystic (d. 1532)
  January 6 – John of Ávila, Spanish mystic and saint (d. 1569)
  February 7 – João de Castro, Portuguese nobleman and fourth viceroy of Portuguese India (d. 1548)
  February 22 – Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist (d. 1564)
  February 24 – Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1558)
  March 12 – Reginald Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1558)
  April 12 – Joachim Camerarius, German classical scholar (d. 1574)
  April 23
  Alexander Ales, Scottish theologian (d. 1565)
  Johann Stumpf, Swiss writer (d. 1576)
  April 27 – Louis, Count of Vaudémont, Italian bishop (d. 1528)
  May 17 – Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (d. 1540)
  June 13 – Ernest of Bavaria, pledge lord of the County of Glatz (d. 1560)
  July 2 – Federico Cesi (cardinal), Italian cardinal (d. 1565)
  July 20 – Lorenzo Cybo, Italian condottiero (d. 1549)
  August 16 – Louis Gonzaga (Rodomonte), Italian-French dignitary and diplomat (d. 1532)
  September 5 – Maria of Jever, last ruler of the Lordship of Jever (d. 1575)
  September 7 – Sebastian Newdigate, Carthusian monk and martyr (d. 1535)
  September 17 – Sebastiano Antonio Pighini, Italian cardinal (d. 1553)
  September 26 – Ludovica Torelli, Count of Guastalla (d. 1569)
  October 17 – Alonso de Orozco Mena, Spanish Roman Catholic priest (d. 1591)
  November 3 – Benvenuto Cellini, Italian goldsmith and sculptor (d. 1571)
  December 6 – Nicolaus Mameranus, Luxembourgian soldier and historian (d. 1567)
  probable
  Johannes Aal, Swiss theologian and composer (d. 1553)
  Charles Dumoulin, French jurist (d. 1566)
  Wu Cheng'en, Chinese novelist (d. 1582)
  Heinrich Faber, German music theorist (d. 1552)
  Francisco de Moraes, Portuguese writer (d. 1572)
  Mem de Sá, Governor-General of Brazil (d. 1572)
  Jeanne de la Font, French poet and culture patron (d. 1532)
caption: Emperor Charles V
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