Who Was Alive

Ferdinand Magellan

Portuguese explorer in the service of Spain

Born c. 1480 · died 27 April 1521

Who was alive at the same time as Ferdinand Magellan?

  1. Sandro Botticelli
  2. Christopher Columbus
  3. Leonardo da Vinci
  4. Amerigo Vespucci
  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. Titian
  18. Henry VIII of England
  19. Jacques Cartier
  20. François Rabelais
  21. Suleiman the Magnificent
  22. Charles V
  23. Nostradamus
  24. John Calvin
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When Ferdinand Magellan died, Michelangelo was 46, Martin Luther was 37, Niccolò Machiavelli was 51, Nicolaus Copernicus was 48 and Albrecht Dürer was 49.

Born during Ferdinand Magellan’s lifetime: Martin Luther, Raphael, Hernán Cortés, Jacques Cartier, Suleiman the Magnificent, Mimar Sinan, John Calvin and François Rabelais.

Not quite contemporaries: Elizabeth I of England was born 12 years after Ferdinand Magellan died, Johannes Gutenberg died 9 years before Ferdinand Magellan was born, Michel de Montaigne was born 12 years after Ferdinand Magellan died and Ivan the Terrible was born 9 years after Ferdinand Magellan died.

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All 43 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. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  8. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  9. Vasco da Gama 1457–1469 – 1524
  10. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  11. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  12. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  13. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  14. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  15. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  16. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  17. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  18. Charles V 1500 – 1558
  19. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  20. Henry VIII of England 1491 – 1547
  21. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  22. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  23. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  24. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  25. Babur 1483 – 1530
  26. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  27. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  28. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  29. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  30. Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  31. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  32. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  33. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  34. Julius II 1443 – 1513
  35. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  36. Leo X 1475 – 1521
  37. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  38. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  39. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  40. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  41. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  42. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  43. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541