Who Was Alive

Vasco da Gama

Portuguese explorer

Born 1457–1469 · died 24 December 1524

Who was alive at the same time as Vasco da Gama?

  1. Mehmed II
  2. Sandro Botticelli
  3. Christopher Columbus
  4. Leonardo da Vinci
  5. Amerigo Vespucci
  6. Vasco da Gama
  7. Erasmus
  8. Niccolò Machiavelli
  9. Albrecht Dürer
  10. Nicolaus Copernicus
  11. Michelangelo
  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 Vasco da Gama died, Michelangelo was 49, Martin Luther was 41, Niccolò Machiavelli was 55, Nicolaus Copernicus was 51 and Albrecht Dürer was 53.

Born during Vasco da Gama’s lifetime: Michelangelo, Martin Luther, Nicolaus Copernicus, Ferdinand Magellan, Raphael, Albrecht Dürer, Hernán Cortés and Jacques Cartier.

Not quite contemporaries: Elizabeth I of England was born 8 years after Vasco da Gama died, Michel de Montaigne was born 8 years after Vasco da Gama died, Francis Drake was born 13 years after Vasco da Gama died and Ivan the Terrible was born 5 years after Vasco da Gama 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. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  11. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  12. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  13. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  14. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  15. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  16. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  17. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  18. Charles V 1500 – 1558
  19. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  20. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  21. Henry VIII of England 1491 – 1547
  22. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  23. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  24. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  25. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  26. Babur 1483 – 1530
  27. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  28. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  29. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  30. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  31. Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  32. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  33. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  34. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  35. Julius II 1443 – 1513
  36. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  37. Leo X 1475 – 1521
  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