1494

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1460s  1470s  1480s  – 1490s –  1500s  1510s  1520s
Years:	1491 1492 1493 – 1494 – 1495 1496 1497

Births

• February 2 – Bona Sforza, queen of Sigismund I of Poland (died 1557)
• April 20 – Johannes Agricola, German Protestant reformer (died 1566)
• May 24 – Pontormo, Italian painter (d. 1557)
• September 5 – Hans Sachs, German Meistersinger (died 1576)
• September 12 – King Francis I of France (died 1547)
• November 6 – Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan (died 1566)
• Purandara Dasa, Indian poet and composer (died 1564)
• Saito Dosan, Japanese warlord (died 1556)
• John Sutton, 3rd Baron Dudley (died 1554)
• Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, Spanish philosopher and theologian (died 1573)
• Ambrosius Holbein, German painter (died 1519)
• Lucas van Leyden, Dutch engraver and painter (died 1533)
• Alonso Alvarez de Pineda, Spanish explorer and cartographer (died 1519)
• Hans Tausen, Danish religious reformer (died 1561)
• Qiu Ying, Chinese painter (died 1552)