Born in December of 1514
Andreas Vesalius was born in Brussels which is now in Belgium. He was from a family full of physicians & pharmacists. Vesalius was both a grandson and son of physicians that practiced in the imperial court.
Died in June of 1564
Vesalius sailed to the Holy Land known as Jerusalem. On his journey home mysterious circumstance occurred and in the end he died. He was buried on the Ionian island of Zakynthos, Republic of Venice which is in Greece.