Who Was Alive

Tycho Brahe

Danish astronomer and alchemist, 1546–1601

Born 14 December 1546 · died 24 October 1601, aged 54

Who was alive at the same time as Tycho Brahe?

  1. Michelangelo
  2. Hernán Cortés
  3. Mimar Sinan
  4. Jacques Cartier
  5. François Rabelais
  6. Suleiman the Magnificent
  7. Charles V
  8. John Calvin
  9. Michel de Montaigne
  10. Elizabeth I of England
  11. Akbar
  12. Miguel de Cervantes
  13. Tycho Brahe
  14. Giordano Bruno
  15. Francis Bacon
  16. Lope de Vega
  17. Galileo Galilei
  18. William Shakespeare
  19. Johannes Kepler
  20. Peter Paul Rubens
  21. Thomas Hobbes
  22. René Descartes
  23. Diego Velázquez
  24. Oliver Cromwell
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 Tycho Brahe was born, Michelangelo was 71, Elizabeth I of England was 13, Hernán Cortés was 60 or 61, Akbar was 4 and Jacques Cartier was 54.

When Tycho Brahe died, William Shakespeare was 37, Galileo Galilei was 37, René Descartes was 5, Francis Bacon was 40 and Elizabeth I of England was 68.

Born during Tycho Brahe’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, René Descartes, Francis Bacon, Johannes Kepler, Peter Paul Rubens, Diego Velázquez and Thomas Hobbes.

Not quite contemporaries: Martin Luther died months before Tycho Brahe was born, Nicolaus Copernicus died 3 years before Tycho Brahe was born, Rembrandt was born 5 years after Tycho Brahe died and Erasmus died 10 years before Tycho Brahe was born.

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All 58 contemporaries we track

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  4. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  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. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  13. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  14. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  15. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  16. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  17. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  18. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  19. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  20. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  21. Charles V 1500 – 1558
  22. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  23. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  24. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  25. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  26. Henry VIII of England 1491 – 1547
  27. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  28. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  29. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  30. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  31. Luís de Camões 1524–1525 – 1580
  32. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  33. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  34. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  35. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  36. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  37. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  38. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  39. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  40. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  41. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  42. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  43. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  44. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  45. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  46. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  47. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  48. Edward VI of England 1537 – 1553
  49. Louis XIII of France 1601 – 1643
  50. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  51. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  52. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  53. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  54. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  55. Pieter Brueghel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  56. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  57. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  58. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644