Who Was Alive

Paracelsus

Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist

Born 10 November 1493 · died 24 September 1541, aged 47

Who was alive at the same time as Paracelsus?

  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. Henry VIII of England
  16. Jacques Cartier
  17. Paracelsus
  18. François Rabelais
  19. Suleiman the Magnificent
  20. Charles V
  21. Nostradamus
  22. John Calvin
  23. Michel de Montaigne
  24. Elizabeth I of England
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 Paracelsus was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 41, Michelangelo was 18, Martin Luther was 10, Christopher Columbus was 41 or 42 and Niccolò Machiavelli was 24.

When Paracelsus died, Michelangelo was 66, Martin Luther was 57, Nicolaus Copernicus was 68, Elizabeth I of England was 8 and Hernán Cortés was 55 or 56.

Born during Paracelsus’s lifetime: Elizabeth I of England, Suleiman the Magnificent, Michel de Montaigne, John Calvin, François Rabelais, Charles V, Nostradamus and Ivan the Terrible.

Not quite contemporaries: Miguel de Cervantes was born 4 years after Paracelsus died, Akbar was born about a year after Paracelsus died, Giordano Bruno was born 7 years after Paracelsus died and Tycho Brahe was born 5 years after Paracelsus died.

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All 52 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. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  14. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  15. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  16. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  17. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  18. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  19. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  20. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  21. Charles V 1500 – 1558
  22. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  23. Henry VIII of England 1491 – 1547
  24. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  25. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  26. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  27. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  28. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  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. Babur 1483 – 1530
  34. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  35. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  36. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  37. Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  38. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  39. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  40. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  41. Julius II 1443 – 1513
  42. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  43. Edward VI of England 1537 – 1553
  44. Leo X 1475 – 1521
  45. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  46. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  47. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  48. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  49. Pieter Brueghel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  50. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  51. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  52. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541