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1493-1541, alchemist; physician; astrologer; general occultist, Swiss

Paracelsus

1493 - 1541

Nicolas Flamel

1330 - 1418
1136-1206, active from 1181, engineer; inventor; author, Mesopotamian; Iraqi

Ismail ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari

1136 - 1206
1452-1519, polymath; painter; draughtsman; sculptor; architect; engineer; inventor (etc.), Italian

Leonardo Da Vinci

1452 - 1519
Tunisian scholar; translated Arabic medicine texts

Constantine the African

1020 - 1099
c. 1412-1431, saint, French

Jeanne d'Arc

1412 - 1491
active 1487-1550, astronomer; scientific instrument maker, German

Nicolaus Kratzer

1486 - 1550
c 1295-1327, Christian saint; martyr; pilgrim, French

Roch

1295 - 1327
1397?-1468, printer; inventor, German

Johannes Gutenberg

1397 - 1468
c. 1300-1368, surgeon, French

Guy de Chauliac

1300 - 1368
1866-1883, railway company, United Kingdom

Llynvi & Ogmore Railway

628 - 1883
1432-1481, sultan of Ottoman empire, Turkish

Mehmed

1432 - 1481
1489-1564, scientific instrument maker, German

Georg Hartmann

1489 - 1564
1500-1558, monarch; Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Belgian

Charles V

1500 - 1558
1452-1516, king; duke, Spanish

Ferdinand II of Aragon

1452 - 1516
c. 1471 or 1476-1541, conquistador, Spanish

Francisco Pizarro

1476 - 1541
philospher, Spanish

Averroes

1126 - 1198
1181/2-1226, monk; friar, Italian

Francis

1181 - 1226
1495-current [2013], naval dockyard, English; British

Portsmouth Dockyard

1495
1157-1159, monarch, king of England, reigned 1189-1199

Richard I

1157 - 1199
1449-1492, statesman, Italian

Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici

1449 - 1492
1457-1482, duchess of Burgundy

Mary

1457 - 1482
c. 1494-1568, knight of St John, French

Jean Parisot de la Valette

1494 - 1568
1380-1444, priest and preacher, saint, Italian

Bernardino

1380 - 1444
1367-1400, monarch, king of England

Richard II

1367 - 1400
1167-1216, reign 1199-1216, King of England, English

King of England John

1167 - 1916
1445-1510, Renaissance artist; painter, Florence, Italy

Sandro Botticelli

1445 - 1510
c. 1195-1231, Christian saint; preacher; Augustinian monk; Franciscan monk, active Italy; Portuguese

Anthony

1195 - 1231
c.1370-1330 BCE, queen, wife of Akhenaten

Nefertiti

1370 - 1330
1188-1978, hospital; Belgium, Belgian

Hospital of St. John (Bruges)

1188 - 1978
1416-1507, Christian saint; mendicant friar, Italian

Francis

1416 - 1507

Portsmouth Dockyard

1495
1467-1540, scholar; humanist, French

Guillaume Budé

1467 - 1540
1480-1562, knight, German

Götz von Berlichingen

1480 - 1562
ca. 1318-1389, mathematician; philosopher; astronomer; physician, Italian

Giovanni Dondi dall'Orologio

1318 - 1389
1473-1543, mathematician; astronomer, Polish

Nicolaus Copernicus

1473 - 1543
c. 1499-c. 1546, artist, Dutch

Jan Steven van Calcar

1499 - 1546
c. 1478-1553, physician; scholar; poet; astronomer; geologist, Italian

Fracastorius

1478 - 1553
1491-1547, king of England and Ireland, reigned 1509-1547

Henry VII

1491 - 1547
1493-1588, botanist; physician, Spanish

Nicolas Monardes

1493 - 1588
1214?-1294, philosopher; Franciscan friar, English

Roger Bacon

1214 - 1294
Trotula of Salerno, b. c.1090, female physician, Italian

Trotula

1090
1494-1555, geologist; metallurgist, German

Georg Agricola

1494 - 1555
1400-current [2012], market, English; British

Billingsgate Market

1400
ca. 1422-1491, printer; merchant; diplomat, English

William Caxton

1422 - 1491
c. 1275- c. 1327, anatomist, Italian

Mondino dei Luzzi

1275 - 1327
1365-current (2008), higher education institution, research, Vienna, Austria, Austrian

University of Vienna

1365
c. 1330-1418, alchemist; scrivener to university of Paris, French

Nicolas Flamel

1330 - 1418
1485-1547, conquistador; explorer, Spanish

Hernando Cortes

1485 - 1547
1462-1536, physician, Italian

Giovanni Manardi

1462 - 1536