In the year 1493, Christopher Columbus returns to Spain from his first trip to Americas (Mar 15), Ottoman forces defeat those of the Kingdom of Croatia in southern Croatia (Sep 9), Christopher Columbus sets off for his second voyage (Sep 29) and lands on the coast of the island of Borinquen (today’s Puerto Rico), and renames it San Juan (Nov 19), Leonardo da Vinci draws first known helicopter - and all these fine people were born:

1493-0102 Louis de Bourbon-Vendôme* cardinal - Château de Ham, Kingdom of France (1557/64) 1493-0106 Olaus Petri* clergyman/ historian/judge – Örebro, Sweden (1552/59) 1493-0121 Giovanni Poggio* Italian cardinal/diplomat - Bologna, Papal States (1556/63) 1493-0209 Helen of the Palatinate*  Duchess of Pomerania - Heidelberg (1524/31) 1493-0315 Anne de Montmorency* soldier/ statesman/Constable of France - Chantilly, France (1567/74) 1493-0425 Giovanni Gaddi* Italian cleric/priest - Florence, Republic of Florence (1542/49) 1493-0505 Alessandro Pasqualini* architect/ engineer - Bologna, Papal States (1559/c. 66) 1493-0605 Justus Jonas* German Lutheran theologian/reformer/hymn writer - Nordhausen, Thuringia (1555/62) 1493-0610 Anton Fugger* merchant – Nuremberg, Germany (1560/67) 1493-0928 Agnolo Firenzuola* Italian poet/ intellectual - Florence, Republic of Florence (1543/49) 1493-0929 Yi Gwang-sik* 이광식 Korean politician/general - Gangneung (1563/70) 1493-1014 Shimazu Tadayoshi* warlord – Japan (1568/75) 1493-1017 Bartolommeo Bandinelli* sculptor/painter - Florence, Italy (1560/66) 1493-1111 Paracelsus* (b Theophrastus von Hohenheim) physician/ alchemist/philosopher - Egg, Schwyz, Old Swiss Confederacy (1541/47) 1493-1227 Johann Pfeffinger* theologian/Protestant reformer - Wasserburg am Inn, Germany (1573/79) Updated 24.2.2023-1 Search for another year here