Who Was Alive

Paul III

Pope of the Catholic Church from 1534 to 1549

Born 29 February 1468 · died 10 November 1549, aged 81

Who was alive at the same time as Paul III?

  1. Christopher Columbus
  2. Leonardo da Vinci
  3. Vasco da Gama
  4. Erasmus
  5. Paul III
  6. Niccolò Machiavelli
  7. Albrecht Dürer
  8. Nicolaus Copernicus
  9. Michelangelo
  10. Thomas More
  11. Ferdinand Magellan
  12. Raphael
  13. Martin Luther
  14. Hernán Cortés
  15. Mimar Sinan
  16. Jacques Cartier
  17. François Rabelais
  18. Suleiman the Magnificent
  19. John Calvin
  20. Michel de Montaigne
  21. Elizabeth I of England
  22. Akbar
  23. Miguel de Cervantes
  24. Giordano Bruno
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 Paul III was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 15, Christopher Columbus was 16 or 17, Erasmus was 1, Mehmed II was 35 and Amerigo Vespucci was 13.

When Paul III died, Michelangelo was 74, Elizabeth I of England was 16, Akbar was 7, Jacques Cartier was 57 and Suleiman the Magnificent was 55.

Born during Paul III’s lifetime: Michelangelo, Martin Luther, Miguel de Cervantes, Niccolò Machiavelli, Nicolaus Copernicus, Ferdinand Magellan, Raphael and Albrecht Dürer.

Not quite contemporaries: William Shakespeare was born 15 years after Paul III died, Galileo Galilei was born 15 years after Paul III died, Francis Bacon was born 12 years after Paul III died and Lope de Vega was born 13 years after Paul III died.

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All 61 contemporaries we track

  1. Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1519
  2. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  3. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  4. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  5. Christopher Columbus 1451 – 1506
  6. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  7. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  8. Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480 – 1521
  9. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  10. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  11. Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603
  12. Vasco da Gama 1457–1469 – 1524
  13. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  14. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  15. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  16. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  17. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  18. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  19. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  20. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  21. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  22. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  23. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  24. Charles V 1500 – 1558
  25. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  26. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  27. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  28. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  29. Henry VIII of England 1491 – 1547
  30. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  31. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  32. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  33. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  34. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  35. Luís de Camões 1524–1525 – 1580
  36. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  37. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  38. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  39. Babur 1483 – 1530
  40. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  41. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  42. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  43. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  44. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  45. Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  46. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  47. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  48. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  49. Julius II 1443 – 1513
  50. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  51. Edward VI of England 1537 – 1553
  52. Leo X 1475 – 1521
  53. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  54. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  55. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  56. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  57. Pieter Brueghel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  58. Vlad the Impaler 1428–1431 – 1476–1477
  59. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  60. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  61. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541