Who Was Alive

Giordano Bruno

Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and mathematician

Born 1548 · died 17 February 1600, aged 51 or 52

Who was alive at the same time as Giordano Bruno?

  1. Michelangelo
  2. Mimar Sinan
  3. Jacques Cartier
  4. François Rabelais
  5. Suleiman the Magnificent
  6. Charles V
  7. Nostradamus
  8. John Calvin
  9. Michel de Montaigne
  10. Elizabeth I of England
  11. Akbar
  12. Miguel de Cervantes
  13. Tycho Brahe
  14. Giordano Bruno
  15. Francis Bacon
  16. Lope de Vega
  17. Galileo Galilei
  18. William Shakespeare
  19. Johannes Kepler
  20. Peter Paul Rubens
  21. Thomas Hobbes
  22. René Descartes
  23. Diego Velázquez
  24. Oliver Cromwell
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 Giordano Bruno was born, Michelangelo was 72, Elizabeth I of England was 14, Akbar was 5, Jacques Cartier was 56 and Suleiman the Magnificent was 53.

When Giordano Bruno died, William Shakespeare was 35, Galileo Galilei was 35, René Descartes was 3, Francis Bacon was 39 and Elizabeth I of England was 66.

Born during Giordano Bruno’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, René Descartes, Francis Bacon, Johannes Kepler, Peter Paul Rubens, Diego Velázquez and Thomas Hobbes.

Not quite contemporaries: Martin Luther died 2 years before Giordano Bruno was born, Nicolaus Copernicus died 5 years before Giordano Bruno was born, Rembrandt was born 6 years after Giordano Bruno died and Hernán Cortés died about a year before Giordano Bruno was born.

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All 53 contemporaries we track

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  4. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  5. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  6. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  7. Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603
  8. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  9. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  10. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  11. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  12. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  13. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  14. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  15. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  16. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  17. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  18. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  19. Charles V 1500 – 1558
  20. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  21. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  22. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  23. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  24. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  25. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  26. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  27. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  28. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  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. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  34. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  35. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  36. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  37. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  38. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  39. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  40. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  41. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  42. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  43. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  44. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  45. Edward VI of England 1537 – 1553
  46. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  47. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  48. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  49. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  50. Pieter Brueghel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  51. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  52. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  53. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644