Who Was Alive

Pieter Brueghel the Elder

Flemish painter

Born c. 1525 · died 9 September 1569

Who was alive at the same time as Pieter Brueghel the Elder?

  1. Erasmus
  2. Albrecht Dürer
  3. Nicolaus Copernicus
  4. Michelangelo
  5. Thomas More
  6. Martin Luther
  7. Hernán Cortés
  8. Mimar Sinan
  9. Jacques Cartier
  10. François Rabelais
  11. Suleiman the Magnificent
  12. Charles V
  13. John Calvin
  14. Pieter Brueghel the Elder
  15. Michel de Montaigne
  16. Elizabeth I of England
  17. Akbar
  18. Miguel de Cervantes
  19. Tycho Brahe
  20. Giordano Bruno
  21. Francis Bacon
  22. Lope de Vega
  23. Galileo Galilei
  24. William Shakespeare
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When Pieter Brueghel the Elder died, William Shakespeare was 5, Galileo Galilei was 5, Francis Bacon was 8, Elizabeth I of England was 36 and Akbar was 26.

Born during Pieter Brueghel the Elder’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, Miguel de Cervantes, Francis Bacon, Elizabeth I of England, Akbar, Giordano Bruno and Michel de Montaigne.

Not quite contemporaries: Leonardo da Vinci died 4 years before Pieter Brueghel the Elder was born, Ferdinand Magellan died 2 years before Pieter Brueghel the Elder was born, Raphael died 3 years before Pieter Brueghel the Elder was born and Johannes Kepler was born 3 years after Pieter Brueghel the Elder died.

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All 53 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. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  9. Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603
  10. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  11. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  12. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  13. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  14. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  15. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  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. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  23. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  24. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  25. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  26. Henry VIII of England 1491 – 1547
  27. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  28. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  29. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  30. Luís de Camões 1524–1525 – 1580
  31. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  32. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  33. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  34. Babur 1483 – 1530
  35. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  36. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  37. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  38. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  39. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  40. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  41. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  42. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  43. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  44. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  45. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  46. Edward VI of England 1537 – 1553
  47. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  48. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  49. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  50. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  51. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  52. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  53. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644