Who Was Alive

Huldrych Zwingli

Protestant Reformation leader in Switzerland, Swiss Reformed Church founder

Born 1 January 1484 · died 11 October 1531, aged 47

Who was alive at the same time as Huldrych Zwingli?

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When Huldrych Zwingli was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 31, Michelangelo was 8, Martin Luther was under a year old, Christopher Columbus was 32 or 33 and Niccolò Machiavelli was 14.

When Huldrych Zwingli died, Michelangelo was 56, Martin Luther was 47, Nicolaus Copernicus was 58, Hernán Cortés was 45 or 46 and Jacques Cartier was 39.

Born during Huldrych Zwingli’s lifetime: Hernán Cortés, Jacques Cartier, Suleiman the Magnificent, Mimar Sinan, John Calvin, François Rabelais, Charles V and Nostradamus.

Not quite contemporaries: Miguel de Cervantes was born 14 years after Huldrych Zwingli died, Elizabeth I of England was born 2 years after Huldrych Zwingli died, Akbar was born 11 years after Huldrych Zwingli died and Michel de Montaigne was born 2 years after Huldrych Zwingli died.

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All 48 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. Vasco da Gama 1457–1469 – 1524
  11. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  12. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  13. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  14. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  15. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  16. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  17. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  18. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  19. Charles V 1500 – 1558
  20. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  21. Henry VIII of England 1491 – 1547
  22. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  23. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  24. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  25. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  26. Luís de Camões 1524–1525 – 1580
  27. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  28. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  29. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  30. Babur 1483 – 1530
  31. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  32. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  33. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  34. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  35. Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  36. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  37. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  38. Julius II 1443 – 1513
  39. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  40. Leo X 1475 – 1521
  41. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  42. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  43. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  44. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  45. Pieter Brueghel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  46. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  47. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  48. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541