Who Was Alive

Teresa of Ávila

Roman Catholic saint

Born 28 March 1515 · died 15 October 1582, aged 67

Who was alive at the same time as Teresa of Ávila?

  1. Leonardo da Vinci
  2. Vasco da Gama
  3. Erasmus
  4. Niccolò Machiavelli
  5. Albrecht Dürer
  6. Nicolaus Copernicus
  7. Michelangelo
  8. Ferdinand Magellan
  9. Raphael
  10. Martin Luther
  11. Hernán Cortés
  12. Jacques Cartier
  13. Suleiman the Magnificent
  14. Teresa of Ávila
  15. Michel de Montaigne
  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 Teresa of Ávila was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 62, Michelangelo was 40, Martin Luther was 31, Niccolò Machiavelli was 45 and Nicolaus Copernicus was 42.

When Teresa of Ávila died, William Shakespeare was 18, Galileo Galilei was 18, Francis Bacon was 21, Elizabeth I of England was 49 and Johannes Kepler was 10.

Born during Teresa of Ávila’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 14 years after Teresa of Ávila died, Christopher Columbus died 9 years before Teresa of Ávila was born, Thomas Hobbes was born 6 years after Teresa of Ávila died and Sandro Botticelli died 5 years before Teresa of Ávila was born.

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All 66 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. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  8. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  9. Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480 – 1521
  10. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  11. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  12. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  13. Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603
  14. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  15. Vasco da Gama 1457–1469 – 1524
  16. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  17. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  18. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  19. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  20. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  21. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  22. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  23. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  24. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  25. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  26. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  27. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  28. Charles V 1500 – 1558
  29. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  30. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  31. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  32. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  33. Henry VIII of England 1491 – 1547
  34. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  35. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  36. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  37. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  38. Luís de Camões 1524–1525 – 1580
  39. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  40. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  41. Babur 1483 – 1530
  42. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  43. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  44. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  45. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  46. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  47. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  48. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  49. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  50. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  51. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  52. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  53. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  54. Edward VI of England 1537 – 1553
  55. Leo X 1475 – 1521
  56. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  57. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  58. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  59. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  60. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  61. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  62. Pieter Brueghel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  63. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  64. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  65. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  66. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644