Guanabara Bay in Brazil

In the year 1502, Portuguese explorers sail into Guanabara Bay, mistaking it for the mouth of a river, which they name Rio de Janeiro (Jan 1), Christopher Columbus leaves Spain for his fourth and final trip to the “New World” (May 11), the first encounter between Europeans and the Maya people of Central America takes place when the Columbus brothers anchor at Guanaja (Jul 30), Ismail I founds the Safavid dynasty (Nov 7), Moctezuma II is elected emperor of the Aztecs - and all these fine people were born:

1502-xxxx Atahualpa* the last Inca Emperor – Cuzco, Kingdom of Quito (1533/c.31)
1502-xxxx Pedro Nunes* mathematician/ cosmographer/professor - Alcácer do Sal, Portugal (1578/76)
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1502-0107 Pope Gregory XIII* (b Ugo Boncompagni) best known for commissioning and being the namesake for the Gregorian calendar - Bologna, Papal States (1585/83)
1502-0120 Sebastian de Aparicio* Spanish colonist – A Gudiña, Ourense, Spanish Empire (1600/98)

1502-0202 Damião de Góis* Portuguese humanist philosopher/student of Erasmus - Alenquer (1574/71)

1502-0304 Elisabeth of Hesse* Hereditary Princess of Saxony - Marburg (1557/55)
1502-0318 Philibert of Chalon* French nobleman - Nozeroy, Franche-Comté (1530/28)
1502-0320 Pierino Belli* Italian soldier/jurist - Alba, Piedmont (1575/73)

1502-0402 Susanna of Bavaria* German noblewoman/granddaughter of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III - Munich (1543/41)
1502-0425 Georg Major* German Lutheran theologian - Nuremberg (1574/72)

1502-0501 Jakob Bagge* Swedish nobleman/admiral - Norway (1577/74)

1502-0602 Guillaume Bigot* physician/ writer/poet - Laval, Kingdom of France (c. 1550/c. 48)
1502-0607 John III of Portugal* King of Portugal and the Algarves - Alcáçova Palace, Lisbon (1557/55)  

1502-0717 Janet Stewart* Lady Fleming/Scottish courtier/illegitimate daughter of James IV of Scotland - Scotland (1562/59)
1502-0726 Christian Egenolff* German printer/publisher - Hadamar, Hesse (1555/52)
1502-0727 Francesco Corteccia* Italian organist/composer - Florence, Republic of Florence (1571/68)

1502-0814 Pieter Coecke van Aelst* Flemish painter/architect/author - Aalst (1550/48) 

1502-10xx Justinian von Holzhausen* German civil servant/diplomat - Frankfurt am Main (1553/50)  

1502-1206 Anna of Brunswick-Lüneburg* German noblewoman - Celle (1568/65) 

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Updated 7.8.2023 Helsinki
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