Who Was Alive

Michelangelo

Italian artist and architect

Born 6 March 1475 · died 18 February 1564, aged 88

Who was alive at the same time as Michelangelo?

  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. Ferdinand Magellan
  10. Raphael
  11. Martin Luther
  12. Hernán Cortés
  13. Mimar Sinan
  14. Jacques Cartier
  15. François Rabelais
  16. Suleiman the Magnificent
  17. John Calvin
  18. Michel de Montaigne
  19. Elizabeth I of England
  20. Akbar
  21. Miguel de Cervantes
  22. Giordano Bruno
  23. Francis Bacon
  24. Galileo Galilei
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 Michelangelo was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 22, Christopher Columbus was 23 or 24, Niccolò Machiavelli was 5, Nicolaus Copernicus was 2 and Albrecht Dürer was 3.

When Michelangelo died, Galileo Galilei was under a year old, Francis Bacon was 3, Elizabeth I of England was 30, Akbar was 21 and Suleiman the Magnificent was 69.

Born during Michelangelo’s lifetime: Galileo Galilei, Martin Luther, Miguel de Cervantes, Ferdinand Magellan, Raphael, Francis Bacon, Elizabeth I of England and Hernán Cortés.

Not quite contemporaries: William Shakespeare was born months after Michelangelo died, Johannes Kepler was born 8 years after Michelangelo died, Johannes Gutenberg died 6 years before Michelangelo was born and Peter Paul Rubens was born 13 years after Michelangelo died.

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All 65 contemporaries we track

  1. Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1519
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  4. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  5. Christopher Columbus 1451 – 1506
  6. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  7. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  8. Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480 – 1521
  9. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  10. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  11. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  12. Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603
  13. Vasco da Gama 1457–1469 – 1524
  14. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  15. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  16. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  17. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  18. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  19. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  20. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  21. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  22. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  23. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  24. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  25. Charles V 1500 – 1558
  26. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  27. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  28. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  29. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  30. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  31. Henry VIII of England 1491 – 1547
  32. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  33. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  34. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  35. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  36. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  37. Luís de Camões 1524–1525 – 1580
  38. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  39. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  40. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  41. Babur 1483 – 1530
  42. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  43. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  44. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  45. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  46. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  47. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  48. Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  49. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  50. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  51. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  52. Julius II 1443 – 1513
  53. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  54. Edward VI of England 1537 – 1553
  55. Leo X 1475 – 1521
  56. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  57. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  58. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  59. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  60. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  61. Pieter Brueghel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  62. Vlad the Impaler 1428–1431 – 1476–1477
  63. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  64. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  65. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541