Who Was Alive

Were Pieter Brueghel the Elder and Galileo Galilei alive at the same time?

Yes. Pieter Brueghel the Elder and Galileo Galilei were alive at the same time for 5 years, from 1564 to 1569.

Galileo Galilei was 5 when Pieter Brueghel the Elder died.

Pieter Brueghel the Elder

Flemish painter

Born c. 1525 · died 9 September 1569

Galileo Galilei

Italian polymath

Born 15 February 1564 · died 8 January 1642, aged 77

  1. Michelangelo
  2. Martin Luther
  3. Pieter Brueghel the Elder
  4. Miguel de Cervantes
  5. Galileo Galilei
  6. William Shakespeare
  7. René Descartes
  8. Molière
Pieter Brueghel the Elder and Galileo Galilei in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.