Who Was Alive

Torquato Tasso

Italian poet

Born 11 March 1544 · died 25 April 1595, aged 51

Who was alive at the same time as Torquato Tasso?

  1. Michelangelo
  2. Martin Luther
  3. Hernán Cortés
  4. Mimar Sinan
  5. Jacques Cartier
  6. François Rabelais
  7. Suleiman the Magnificent
  8. Charles V
  9. Nostradamus
  10. John Calvin
  11. Michel de Montaigne
  12. Elizabeth I of England
  13. Akbar
  14. Torquato Tasso
  15. Miguel de Cervantes
  16. Tycho Brahe
  17. Giordano Bruno
  18. Francis Bacon
  19. Lope de Vega
  20. Galileo Galilei
  21. William Shakespeare
  22. Johannes Kepler
  23. Peter Paul Rubens
  24. Thomas Hobbes
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 Torquato Tasso was born, Michelangelo was 69, Martin Luther was 60, Elizabeth I of England was 10, Hernán Cortés was 58 or 59 and Akbar was 1.

When Torquato Tasso died, William Shakespeare was 30 or 31, Galileo Galilei was 31, Francis Bacon was 34, Elizabeth I of England was 61 and Johannes Kepler was 23.

Born during Torquato Tasso’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, Miguel de Cervantes, Francis Bacon, Johannes Kepler, Peter Paul Rubens, Thomas Hobbes and Giordano Bruno.

Not quite contemporaries: René Descartes was born about a year after Torquato Tasso died, Nicolaus Copernicus died about a year before Torquato Tasso was born, Rembrandt was born 11 years after Torquato Tasso died and Diego Velázquez was born 4 years after Torquato Tasso died.

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All 53 contemporaries we track

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  4. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  5. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  6. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  7. Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603
  8. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  9. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  10. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  11. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  12. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  13. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  14. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  15. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  16. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  17. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  18. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  19. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  20. Charles V 1500 – 1558
  21. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  22. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  23. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  24. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  25. Henry VIII of England 1491 – 1547
  26. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  27. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  28. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  29. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  30. Luís de Camões 1524–1525 – 1580
  31. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  32. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  33. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  34. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  35. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  36. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  37. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  38. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  39. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  40. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  41. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  42. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  43. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  44. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  45. Edward VI of England 1537 – 1553
  46. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  47. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  48. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  49. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  50. Pieter Brueghel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  51. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  52. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  53. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644