Who Was Alive

Gregory XIII

Pope of the Catholic Church from 1572 to 1585

Born 1 January 1502 · died 10 April 1585, aged 83

Who was alive at the same time as Gregory XIII?

  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. Jacques Cartier
  14. Suleiman the Magnificent
  15. Gregory XIII
  16. Elizabeth I of England
  17. Akbar
  18. Miguel de Cervantes
  19. Giordano Bruno
  20. Francis Bacon
  21. Galileo Galilei
  22. William Shakespeare
  23. Johannes Kepler
  24. Peter Paul Rubens
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 Gregory XIII was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 49, Michelangelo was 26, Martin Luther was 18, Christopher Columbus was 50 or 51 and Niccolò Machiavelli was 32.

When Gregory XIII died, William Shakespeare was 20, Galileo Galilei was 21, Francis Bacon was 24, Elizabeth I of England was 51 and Johannes Kepler was 13.

Born during Gregory XIII’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, Miguel de Cervantes, Francis Bacon, Elizabeth I of England, Johannes Kepler, Peter Paul Rubens and Akbar.

Not quite contemporaries: René Descartes was born 11 years after Gregory XIII died, Diego Velázquez was born 14 years after Gregory XIII died, Thomas Hobbes was born 3 years after Gregory XIII died and Oliver Cromwell was born 14 years after Gregory XIII died.

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All 73 contemporaries we track

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1519
  3. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  4. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  5. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  6. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  7. Christopher Columbus 1451 – 1506
  8. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  9. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  10. Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480 – 1521
  11. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  12. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  13. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  14. Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603
  15. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  16. Vasco da Gama 1457–1469 – 1524
  17. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  18. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  19. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  20. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  21. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  22. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  23. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  24. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  25. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  26. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  27. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  28. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  29. Charles V 1500 – 1558
  30. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  31. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  32. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  33. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  34. Henry VIII of England 1491 – 1547
  35. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  36. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  37. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  38. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  39. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  40. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  41. Luís de Camões 1524–1525 – 1580
  42. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  43. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  44. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  45. Babur 1483 – 1530
  46. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  47. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  48. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  49. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  50. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  51. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  52. Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  53. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  54. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  55. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  56. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  57. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  58. Julius II 1443 – 1513
  59. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  60. Edward VI of England 1537 – 1553
  61. Leo X 1475 – 1521
  62. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  63. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  64. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  65. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  66. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  67. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  68. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  69. Pieter Brueghel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  70. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  71. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  72. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  73. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644