Who Was Alive

Elizabeth I of England

Queen of England and Ireland from 1558 to 1603

Born 7 September 1533 · died 24 March 1603 (Julian calendar), aged 69

Who was alive at the same time as Elizabeth I of England?

  1. Erasmus
  2. Nicolaus Copernicus
  3. Michelangelo
  4. Thomas More
  5. Martin Luther
  6. Hernán Cortés
  7. Mimar Sinan
  8. Jacques Cartier
  9. François Rabelais
  10. Suleiman the Magnificent
  11. John Calvin
  12. Michel de Montaigne
  13. Elizabeth I of England
  14. Akbar
  15. Miguel de Cervantes
  16. Giordano Bruno
  17. Francis Bacon
  18. Galileo Galilei
  19. William Shakespeare
  20. Johannes Kepler
  21. Peter Paul Rubens
  22. Thomas Hobbes
  23. René Descartes
  24. Diego Velázquez
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 Elizabeth I of England was born, Michelangelo was 58, Martin Luther was 49, Nicolaus Copernicus was 60, Hernán Cortés was 47 or 48 and Jacques Cartier was 41.

When Elizabeth I of England died, William Shakespeare was 38, Galileo Galilei was 39, René Descartes was 7, Francis Bacon was 42 and Johannes Kepler was 31.

Born during Elizabeth I of England’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, René Descartes, Miguel de Cervantes, Francis Bacon, Johannes Kepler, Peter Paul Rubens and Akbar.

Not quite contemporaries: Leonardo da Vinci died 14 years before Elizabeth I of England was born, Niccolò Machiavelli died 6 years before Elizabeth I of England was born, Rembrandt was born 3 years after Elizabeth I of England died and Ferdinand Magellan died 12 years before Elizabeth I of England was born.

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All 66 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. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  9. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  10. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  11. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  12. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  13. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  14. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  15. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  16. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  17. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  18. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  19. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  20. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  21. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  22. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  23. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  24. Charles V 1500 – 1558
  25. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  26. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  27. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  28. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  29. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  30. Henry VIII of England 1491 – 1547
  31. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  32. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  33. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  34. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  35. Luís de Camões 1524–1525 – 1580
  36. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  37. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  38. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  39. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  40. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  41. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  42. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  43. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  44. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  45. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  46. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  47. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  48. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  49. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  50. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  51. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  52. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  53. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  54. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  55. Edward VI of England 1537 – 1553
  56. Louis XIII of France 1601 – 1643
  57. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  58. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  59. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  60. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  61. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  62. Pieter Brueghel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  63. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  64. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  65. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  66. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644