Who Was Alive

El Greco

Greek artist, painter, sculptor and architect

Born 1 October 1541 · died 7 April 1614, aged 72

Who was alive at the same time as El Greco?

  1. Nicolaus Copernicus
  2. Michelangelo
  3. Martin Luther
  4. Hernán Cortés
  5. Mimar Sinan
  6. Jacques Cartier
  7. Suleiman the Magnificent
  8. John Calvin
  9. Michel de Montaigne
  10. Elizabeth I of England
  11. El Greco
  12. Akbar
  13. Miguel de Cervantes
  14. Giordano Bruno
  15. Francis Bacon
  16. Galileo Galilei
  17. William Shakespeare
  18. Johannes Kepler
  19. Peter Paul Rubens
  20. Thomas Hobbes
  21. René Descartes
  22. Diego Velázquez
  23. Rembrandt
  24. John Milton
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When El Greco was born, Michelangelo was 66, Martin Luther was 57, Nicolaus Copernicus was 68, Elizabeth I of England was 8 and Hernán Cortés was 55 or 56.

When El Greco died, William Shakespeare was 49, Galileo Galilei was 50, René Descartes was 18, Rembrandt was 7 and Francis Bacon was 53.

Born during El Greco’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, René Descartes, Miguel de Cervantes, Rembrandt, Francis Bacon, Johannes Kepler and Peter Paul Rubens.

Not quite contemporaries: Niccolò Machiavelli died 14 years before El Greco was born, Molière was born 8 years after El Greco died, Blaise Pascal was born 9 years after El Greco died and Albrecht Dürer died 13 years before El Greco was born.

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All 68 contemporaries we track

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  4. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  5. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  6. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  7. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  8. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  9. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  10. Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603
  11. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  12. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  13. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  14. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  15. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  16. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  17. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  18. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  19. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  20. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  21. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  22. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  23. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  24. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  25. Charles V 1500 – 1558
  26. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  27. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  28. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  29. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  30. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  31. Henry VIII of England 1491 – 1547
  32. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  33. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  34. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  35. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  36. Luís de Camões 1524–1525 – 1580
  37. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  38. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  39. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  40. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  41. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  42. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  43. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  44. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  45. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  46. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  47. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  48. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  49. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  50. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  51. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  52. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  53. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  54. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  55. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  56. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  57. Edward VI of England 1537 – 1553
  58. Louis XIII of France 1601 – 1643
  59. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  60. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  61. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  62. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  63. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  64. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  65. Pieter Brueghel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  66. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  67. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  68. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644