German physician Leonhart Fuchs ( 1501 – 1566 ) was one of " the three German fathers of botany ", along with Otto Brunfels ( 1489 – 1534 ) and Hieronymus Bock ( 1498 – 1554 ) ( also called Hieronymus Tragus ).

Science 134: 1501 – 1506

* 1461 – Džore Držić, Croatian poet and playwright ( d. 1501 )

* 1501 2 December – Acknowledging the importance of the town, the Catholic Monarchs asked the Duke of Medina Sidonia for the return of Gibraltar to the domains of the crown.

Gerolamo ( or Girolamo, or Geronimo ) Cardano (; ; 24 September 1501 – 21 September 1576 ) was an Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer and gambler.

* Livia Gonzaga ( 1501 – January 1508 ).

* 1501 – Cho Shik, Korean scholar, politician, educator, and poet ( d. 1572 )

* 1501 – Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and botanist ( d. 1566 )

* 1501 – Anthony Denny, confidant of King Henry VIII of England ( d. 1559 )

* 1501 – Isabella of Austria ( d. 1526 )

* 1501 – Pope Marcellus II ( d. 1555 )

Michelangelo returned to Florence in 1499 – 1501.

Joachim ( 1505 – 1571 ), the future elector of Brandenburg, was the eldest son and heir of their current claimant of Luxembourg, Joachim I, Elector of Brandenburg ( 1484 – 1535 ), the eldest son and heir of the late Margaret of Thuringia ( 1449 – 1501 ), Dowager Electress of Brandenburg, herself the eldest daughter and heiress of Anna, Duchess of Luxembourg and William of Saxony, Landgrave of Thuringia.

* 1501 – Catherine of Aragon ( later Henry VIII's first wife ) meets Arthur Tudor, Henry VIII's older brother – they would later marry.

* 1501 – Ballet of Chestnuts – a banquet held by Cesare Borgia in the Papal Palace where fifty prostitutes or courtesans are in attendance for the entertainment of the guests.

* Celestino Andrés Araúz y Patricia Pizzurno, El Panamá Hispano ( 1501 – 1821 ) Comisión Nacional del V Centenario – Encuentro de Dos Mundos-de España Diario La Prensa de Panamá, Panamá 1991.

Pope Marcellus II ( 6 May 1501 – 1 May 1555 ), born Marcello Cervini degli Spannochi, was Pope from 9 April 1555 to 1 May 1555, succeeding Pope Julius III.

** Yi Hwang, Korean Confucian scholar ( b. 1501 )

Yi Hwang ( 1501 – 1570 ) and Yi I ( 1536 – 1584 ), who are often referred to by their pen names Toe gye and Yul gok, are commemorated today on South Korea's 1, 000-and 5, 000-Won notes respectively, and in the names of major thoroughfares in central Seoul.

* Yi Hwang ( Pen name Toegye ) ( 1501 – 1570 )

Yi Hwang ( 1501 – 1570 ) is one of the two most prominent Korean Confucian scholars of the Joseon Dynasty, the other being his younger contemporary Yi I ( Yulgok ).

Yi Hwang was born in Ongye-ri, Andong, North Gyeongsang Province, in 1501.

Toe-gye Yi Hwang ( 1501 – 70 ), one of the most prominent of all Korean scholars, came from Andong.

In the Four – Seven Debate with Ki Daesung, Toegye ( Yi Hwang, 1501 – 70 ), while being still dualistic, broke away from Chu Hsi by espousing the reciprocal emanation ( hobal ) of i and ki: with the Four, ki follows i when i becomes emanant ; with the Seven, when ki becomes emanant, i ‘ rides ’ ki.

* Yi Hwang ( 1501 – 1570 )

* Toegye Yi Hwang ( 1501 – 1570 )

One of the most significant thinkers in the next generation was the philosopher-scholar Seongho Yi Ik ( 星湖 李瀷, 1681 – 1763 ) and he saw Udam as the authentic heir of Toegye Yi Hwang ( 退溪 李滉, 1501 – 1570 ).

Eric Ives, a British historian and legal expert, advocates the 1501 date, while Retha Warnicke, an American scholar who has also written a biography of Anne, prefers 1507.

Constantine Lascaris ( 1434 – 15 August 1501 ) was a Greek scholar and grammarian, one of the promoters of the revival of Greek learning in the Italian peninsula, born at Constantinople.

The Italian Renaissance scholar Geralomo Cardano ( 1501 – 1575 ) considered him one of the twelve greatest minds of the Middle Ages.

John Doget ( died 1501 ) was an English diplomat, scholar and Renaissance humanist.

After studies in Kraków ( 1493 – 95 ) and Tübingen ( until 1499 ) he spent some time as a travelling scholar ( in 1501, he was in Lyon ).

# Christof ( b. and d. Dresden, 27 May 1501 ).

* 1501 – Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician ( d. 1576 )

** Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset ( d. 1501 )

* February 6 – Džore Držić, poet and dramatist ( d. 1501 )

** Anne Boleyn, Second Queen of Henry VIII of England ( born this year or 1501 ; d. 1536 )

** Gaspar Corte-Real, Portuguese explorer ( d. 1501 )

* May 29 – John VI of Cornwall ( d. 1501 )

* July 26 – Sigismund of Bavaria ( d. 1501 )

* February 9 – Ali-Shir Nava ' i, politician and poet ( d. 1501 )

** Margaret of Thuringia, wife of the Elector of Brandenburg ( d. 1501 )

Among the important early Muslim scholars who made valuable contributions to economic theory are Abu Yusuf ( d. 798 ), Al-Mawardi ( d. 1058 ), Ibn Hazm ( d. 1064 ), Al-Sarakhsi ( d. 1090 ), Al-Tusi ( d. 1093 ), Al-Ghazali ( d. 1111 ), Al-Dimashqi ( d. after 1175 ), Ibn Rushd ( d. 1187 ), Ibn Taymiyyah ( d. 1328 ), Ibn al-Ukhuwwah ( d. 1329 ), Ibn al-Qayyim ( d. 1350 ), Al-Shatibi ( d. 1388 ), Ibn Khaldun ( d. 1406 ), Al-Maqrizi ( d. 1442 ), Al-Dawwani ( d. 1501 ), and Shah Waliyullah ( d. 1762 ).