Who Was Alive

Francis I of France

King of France from 1515 to 1547

Born 12 September 1494 · died 31 March 1547, aged 52

Who was alive at the same time as Francis I of France?

  1. Christopher Columbus
  2. Leonardo da Vinci
  3. Vasco da Gama
  4. Erasmus
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli
  6. Albrecht Dürer
  7. Nicolaus Copernicus
  8. Michelangelo
  9. Thomas More
  10. Ferdinand Magellan
  11. Raphael
  12. Martin Luther
  13. Hernán Cortés
  14. Mimar Sinan
  15. Jacques Cartier
  16. François Rabelais
  17. Francis I of France
  18. Suleiman the Magnificent
  19. Charles V
  20. John Calvin
  21. Michel de Montaigne
  22. Elizabeth I of England
  23. Akbar
  24. Tycho Brahe
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 Francis I of France was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 42, Michelangelo was 19, Martin Luther was 10, Christopher Columbus was 42 or 43 and Niccolò Machiavelli was 25.

When Francis I of France died, Michelangelo was 72, Elizabeth I of England was 13, Hernán Cortés was 61 or 62, Akbar was 4 and Jacques Cartier was 55.

Born during Francis I of France’s lifetime: Elizabeth I of England, Akbar, Suleiman the Magnificent, Michel de Montaigne, John Calvin, Charles V, Tycho Brahe and Nostradamus.

Not quite contemporaries: Francis Bacon was born 14 years after Francis I of France died, Giordano Bruno was born about a year after Francis I of France died, Mehmed II died 13 years before Francis I of France was born and Henry IV of France was born 6 years after Francis I of France died.

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All 57 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. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  13. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  14. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  15. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  16. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  17. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  18. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  19. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  20. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  21. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  22. Charles V 1500 – 1558
  23. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  24. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  25. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  26. Henry VIII of England 1491 – 1547
  27. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  28. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  29. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  30. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  31. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  32. Luís de Camões 1524–1525 – 1580
  33. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  34. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  35. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  36. Babur 1483 – 1530
  37. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  38. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  39. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  40. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  41. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  42. Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  43. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  44. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  45. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  46. Julius II 1443 – 1513
  47. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  48. Edward VI of England 1537 – 1553
  49. Leo X 1475 – 1521
  50. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  51. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  52. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  53. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  54. Pieter Brueghel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  55. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  56. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  57. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541