Who Was Alive

Akbar

The third and greatest Mughal emperor from 1556 to 1605

Born 15 October 1542 · died 15 October 1605, aged 62

Who was alive at the same time as Akbar?

  1. Nicolaus Copernicus
  2. Michelangelo
  3. Martin Luther
  4. Hernán Cortés
  5. Mimar Sinan
  6. Jacques Cartier
  7. François Rabelais
  8. Suleiman the Magnificent
  9. Charles V
  10. John Calvin
  11. Michel de Montaigne
  12. Elizabeth I of England
  13. Akbar
  14. Miguel de Cervantes
  15. Giordano Bruno
  16. Francis Bacon
  17. Lope de Vega
  18. Galileo Galilei
  19. William Shakespeare
  20. Johannes Kepler
  21. Peter Paul Rubens
  22. Thomas Hobbes
  23. René Descartes
  24. Diego Velázquez
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 Akbar was born, Michelangelo was 67, Martin Luther was 58, Nicolaus Copernicus was 69, Elizabeth I of England was 9 and Hernán Cortés was 56 or 57.

When Akbar died, William Shakespeare was 41, Galileo Galilei was 41, René Descartes was 9, Francis Bacon was 44 and Johannes Kepler was 33.

Born during Akbar’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, René Descartes, Miguel de Cervantes, Francis Bacon, Johannes Kepler, Peter Paul Rubens and Diego Velázquez.

Not quite contemporaries: Rembrandt was born about a year after Akbar died, Albrecht Dürer died 14 years before Akbar was born, Erasmus died 6 years before Akbar was born and John Milton was born 3 years after Akbar died.

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All 61 contemporaries we track

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  4. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  5. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  6. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  7. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  8. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  9. Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603
  10. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  11. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  12. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  13. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  14. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  15. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  16. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  17. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  18. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  19. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  20. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  21. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  22. Charles V 1500 – 1558
  23. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  24. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  25. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  26. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  27. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  28. Henry VIII of England 1491 – 1547
  29. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  30. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  31. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  32. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  33. Luís de Camões 1524–1525 – 1580
  34. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  35. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  36. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  37. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  38. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  39. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  40. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  41. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  42. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  43. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  44. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  45. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  46. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  47. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  48. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  49. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  50. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  51. Edward VI of England 1537 – 1553
  52. Louis XIII of France 1601 – 1643
  53. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  54. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  55. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  56. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  57. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  58. Pieter Brueghel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  59. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  60. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  61. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644