page_title: 1494
section_title: Births
hierarchical_section_title: 1494 / Births
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context_page_description: Year 1494 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.
context_section_description: February 2 – Bona Sforza, queen of Sigismund I of Poland (d. 1557)
  February 20 – Johan Friis, Danish statesman (d. 1570)
  March 24 – Georgius Agricola, German mineralogist and scholar (d. 1555)
  March 25 – Elisabeth of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach, Margravine (d. 1518)
  April 4 – Ambrosius Moibanus, German theologian (d. 1554)
  April 20 – Johannes Agricola, German Protestant reformer (d. 1566)
  April 25 – Juan Téllez-Girón, 4th Count of Ureña, Spanish count (d. 1558)
  May 24 – Pontormo, Italian painter (d. 1557)
  August 18 – Johannes Scheubel, German mathematician (d. 1570)
  September 8 – Sri Chand, Indian founder of the ascetic sect of Udasi (d. 1629)
  September 11 – Elisabeth of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Duchess of Guelders (1518–1538) (d. 1572)
  September 12 – King Francis I of France (d. 1547)
  October 31 – Wolfgang of the Palatinate, Count Palatine of Neumarkt (1524–1558), governor of the Upper Palatinate (d. 1558)
  November 5 – Hans Sachs, German meistersinger ("mastersinger") (d. 1576)
  November 6 – Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1566)
  November 12 – Margaret of Anhalt-Köthen, Princess of Anhalt by birth, Duchess consort of Saxony (d. 1521)
  November (probable) – François Rabelais, French Renaissance writer (d. 1553)
  date unknown
  Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, Spanish  explorer and cartographer (d. 1519)
  Christina Gyllenstierna, Swedish national heroine (d. 1559)
  Ambrosius Holbein, German painter (d. 1519)
  Qiu Ying, Chinese painter (d. 1552)
  Saitō Dōsan, Japanese warlord (d. 1556)
  John Sutton, 3rd Baron Dudley (d. 1554)
  Hans Tausen, Danish religious reformer (d. 1561)
caption: Francis I of France
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