Who Was Alive

Leo X

Pope from 1513 to 1521

Born 11 December 1475 · died 1 December 1521, aged 45

Who was alive at the same time as Leo X?

  1. Mehmed II
  2. Sandro Botticelli
  3. Christopher Columbus
  4. Leonardo da Vinci
  5. Vasco da Gama
  6. Erasmus
  7. Niccolò Machiavelli
  8. Albrecht Dürer
  9. Nicolaus Copernicus
  10. Michelangelo
  11. Leo X
  12. Thomas More
  13. Ferdinand Magellan
  14. Raphael
  15. Martin Luther
  16. Hernán Cortés
  17. Mimar Sinan
  18. Henry VIII of England
  19. Jacques Cartier
  20. François Rabelais
  21. Suleiman the Magnificent
  22. Charles V
  23. Nostradamus
  24. John Calvin
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 Leo X was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 23, Michelangelo was under a year old, Christopher Columbus was 23 or 24, Niccolò Machiavelli was 6 and Nicolaus Copernicus was 2.

When Leo X died, Michelangelo was 46, Martin Luther was 38, Niccolò Machiavelli was 52, Nicolaus Copernicus was 48 and Albrecht Dürer was 50.

Born during Leo X’s lifetime: Martin Luther, Ferdinand Magellan, Raphael, Hernán Cortés, Jacques Cartier, Suleiman the Magnificent, Mimar Sinan and John Calvin.

Not quite contemporaries: Elizabeth I of England was born 12 years after Leo X died, Johannes Gutenberg died 6 years before Leo X was born, Michel de Montaigne was born 12 years after Leo X died and Ivan the Terrible was born 9 years after Leo X died.

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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. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  12. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  13. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  14. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  15. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  16. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  17. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  18. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  19. Charles V 1500 – 1558
  20. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  21. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  22. Henry VIII of England 1491 – 1547
  23. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  24. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  25. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  26. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  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. Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  33. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  34. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  35. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  36. Julius II 1443 – 1513
  37. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  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 V 1504 – 1572
  44. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  45. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541