Who Was Alive

Alexander VI

Pope of the Catholic Church 1492–1503 from the Borgia family

Born c. 1431 · died 18 August 1503

Who was alive at the same time as Alexander VI?

  1. Zheng He
  2. Johannes Gutenberg
  3. Alexander VI
  4. Mehmed II
  5. Sandro Botticelli
  6. Christopher Columbus
  7. Leonardo da Vinci
  8. Vasco da Gama
  9. Erasmus
  10. Niccolò Machiavelli
  11. Albrecht Dürer
  12. Nicolaus Copernicus
  13. Michelangelo
  14. Thomas More
  15. Ferdinand Magellan
  16. Raphael
  17. Martin Luther
  18. Hernán Cortés
  19. Mimar Sinan
  20. Henry VIII of England
  21. Jacques Cartier
  22. François Rabelais
  23. Suleiman the Magnificent
  24. Charles V
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 Alexander VI died, Leonardo da Vinci was 51, Michelangelo was 28, Martin Luther was 19, Christopher Columbus was 51 or 52 and Niccolò Machiavelli was 34.

Born during Alexander VI’s lifetime: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Martin Luther, Christopher Columbus, Niccolò Machiavelli, Nicolaus Copernicus, Ferdinand Magellan and Raphael.

Not quite contemporaries: John Calvin was born 6 years after Alexander VI died, Nostradamus was born months after Alexander VI died, Teresa of Ávila was born 12 years after Alexander VI died and Jan Hus died 14 years before Alexander VI was born.

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All 45 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. Vasco da Gama 1457–1469 – 1524
  11. Johannes Gutenberg 1393–1406 – 1468
  12. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  13. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  14. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  15. Zheng He 1371 – 1433–1435
  16. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  17. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  18. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  19. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  20. Charles V 1500 – 1558
  21. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  22. Henry VIII of England 1491 – 1547
  23. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  24. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  25. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  26. Donatello c. 1386 – 1466
  27. Babur 1483 – 1530
  28. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  29. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  30. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  31. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  32. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  33. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  34. François Villon 1431 – 1463
  35. Julius II 1443 – 1513
  36. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  37. Leo X 1475 – 1521
  38. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  39. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  40. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  41. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  42. Vlad the Impaler 1428–1431 – 1476–1477
  43. Pius II 1405 – 1464
  44. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  45. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541