Who Was Alive

Erasmus

Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, and theologian

Born 28 October 1466 · died 12 July 1536, aged 69

Who was alive at the same time as Erasmus?

  1. Johannes Gutenberg
  2. Mehmed II
  3. Christopher Columbus
  4. Leonardo da Vinci
  5. Vasco da Gama
  6. Erasmus
  7. Niccolò Machiavelli
  8. Albrecht Dürer
  9. Nicolaus Copernicus
  10. Michelangelo
  11. Thomas More
  12. Ferdinand Magellan
  13. Raphael
  14. Martin Luther
  15. Hernán Cortés
  16. Mimar Sinan
  17. Jacques Cartier
  18. François Rabelais
  19. Suleiman the Magnificent
  20. Charles V
  21. Nostradamus
  22. John Calvin
  23. Michel de Montaigne
  24. Elizabeth I of England
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When Erasmus was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 14, Christopher Columbus was 14 or 15, Mehmed II was 34, Amerigo Vespucci was 12 and Isabella I of Castile was 15.

When Erasmus died, Michelangelo was 61, Martin Luther was 52, Nicolaus Copernicus was 63, Elizabeth I of England was 2 and Hernán Cortés was 50 or 51.

Born during Erasmus’s lifetime: Michelangelo, Martin Luther, Niccolò Machiavelli, Nicolaus Copernicus, Ferdinand Magellan, Raphael, Albrecht Dürer and Elizabeth I of England.

Not quite contemporaries: Miguel de Cervantes was born 9 years after Erasmus died, Akbar was born 6 years after Erasmus died, Giordano Bruno was born 12 years after Erasmus died and Tycho Brahe was born 10 years after Erasmus died.

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All 54 contemporaries we track

  1. Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1519
  2. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  3. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  4. Christopher Columbus 1451 – 1506
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  6. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  7. Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480 – 1521
  8. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  9. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  10. Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603
  11. Vasco da Gama 1457–1469 – 1524
  12. Johannes Gutenberg 1393–1406 – 1468
  13. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  14. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  15. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  16. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  17. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  18. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  19. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  20. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  21. Charles V 1500 – 1558
  22. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  23. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  24. Henry VIII of England 1491 – 1547
  25. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  26. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  27. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  28. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  29. Luís de Camões 1524–1525 – 1580
  30. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  31. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  32. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  33. Donatello c. 1386 – 1466
  34. Babur 1483 – 1530
  35. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  36. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  37. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  38. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  39. Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  40. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  41. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  42. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  43. Julius II 1443 – 1513
  44. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  45. Leo X 1475 – 1521
  46. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  47. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  48. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  49. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  50. Pieter Brueghel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  51. Vlad the Impaler 1428–1431 – 1476–1477
  52. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  53. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  54. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541