Who Was Alive

Zheng He

Chinese mariner, explorer, and diplomat

Born 1371 · died 1433–1435

Who was alive at the same time as Zheng He?

  1. Petrarch
  2. Giovanni Boccaccio
  3. Hafez
  4. Ibn Khaldun
  5. Timur
  6. Geoffrey Chaucer
  7. Jan Hus
  8. Zheng He
  9. Donatello
  10. Johannes Gutenberg
  11. Pius II
  12. Joan of Arc
  13. Vlad the Impaler
  14. Alexander VI
  15. François Villon
  16. Mehmed II
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 Zheng He was born, Petrarch was 66 or 67, Timur was 34 or 35 and Giovanni Boccaccio was 57 or 58.

Born during Zheng He’s lifetime: Joan of Arc, Johannes Gutenberg, Mehmed II, Donatello, Alexander VI, François Villon, Vlad the Impaler and Pius II.

Not quite contemporaries: Sandro Botticelli was born 7 years after Zheng He died, Julius II was born 7 years after Zheng He died and Hieronymus Bosch was born 12 years after Zheng He died.

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