Who Was Alive

Ivan the Terrible

Tsar of all Russia from 1547 to 1584

Born 25 August 1530 · died 18 March 1584 (Julian calendar), aged 53

Who was alive at the same time as Ivan the Terrible?

  1. Erasmus
  2. Nicolaus Copernicus
  3. Michelangelo
  4. Thomas More
  5. Martin Luther
  6. Hernán Cortés
  7. Mimar Sinan
  8. Jacques Cartier
  9. François Rabelais
  10. Suleiman the Magnificent
  11. Charles V
  12. John Calvin
  13. Ivan the Terrible
  14. Michel de Montaigne
  15. Elizabeth I of England
  16. Akbar
  17. Miguel de Cervantes
  18. Giordano Bruno
  19. Francis Bacon
  20. Lope de Vega
  21. Galileo Galilei
  22. William Shakespeare
  23. Johannes Kepler
  24. Peter Paul Rubens
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 Ivan the Terrible was born, Michelangelo was 55, Martin Luther was 46, Nicolaus Copernicus was 57, Hernán Cortés was 44 or 45 and Jacques Cartier was 38.

When Ivan the Terrible died, William Shakespeare was 19, Galileo Galilei was 20, Francis Bacon was 23, Elizabeth I of England was 50 and Johannes Kepler was 12.

Born during Ivan the Terrible’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, Miguel de Cervantes, Francis Bacon, Elizabeth I of England, Johannes Kepler, Peter Paul Rubens and Akbar.

Not quite contemporaries: Leonardo da Vinci died 11 years before Ivan the Terrible was born, René Descartes was born 12 years after Ivan the Terrible died, Niccolò Machiavelli died 3 years before Ivan the Terrible was born and Ferdinand Magellan died 9 years before Ivan the Terrible was born.

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All 58 contemporaries we track

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  4. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  5. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  6. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  7. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  8. Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603
  9. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  10. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  11. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  12. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  13. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  14. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  15. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  16. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  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. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  24. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  25. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  26. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  27. Henry VIII of England 1491 – 1547
  28. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  29. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  30. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  31. Luís de Camões 1524–1525 – 1580
  32. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  33. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  34. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  35. Babur 1483 – 1530
  36. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  37. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  38. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  39. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  40. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  41. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  42. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  43. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  44. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  45. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  46. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  47. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  48. Edward VI of England 1537 – 1553
  49. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  50. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  51. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  52. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  53. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  54. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  55. Pieter Brueghel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  56. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  57. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  58. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644