Who Was Alive

Albrecht Dürer

German painter, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist

Born 21 May 1471 · died 6 April 1528, aged 56

Who was alive at the same time as Albrecht Dürer?

  1. Mehmed II
  2. Sandro Botticelli
  3. Christopher Columbus
  4. Leonardo da Vinci
  5. Vasco da Gama
  6. Erasmus
  7. Niccolò Machiavelli
  8. Albrecht Dürer
  9. Nicolaus Copernicus
  10. Michelangelo
  11. Thomas More
  12. Ferdinand Magellan
  13. Raphael
  14. Martin Luther
  15. Hernán Cortés
  16. Mimar Sinan
  17. Henry VIII of England
  18. Jacques Cartier
  19. François Rabelais
  20. Suleiman the Magnificent
  21. Charles V
  22. Nostradamus
  23. John Calvin
  24. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
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 Albrecht Dürer was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 19, Christopher Columbus was 19 or 20, Niccolò Machiavelli was 2, Erasmus was 4 and Mehmed II was 39.

When Albrecht Dürer died, Michelangelo was 53, Martin Luther was 44, Nicolaus Copernicus was 55, Hernán Cortés was 42 or 43 and Jacques Cartier was 36.

Born during Albrecht Dürer’s lifetime: Michelangelo, Martin Luther, Nicolaus Copernicus, Ferdinand Magellan, Raphael, Hernán Cortés, Jacques Cartier and Suleiman the Magnificent.

Not quite contemporaries: Elizabeth I of England was born 5 years after Albrecht Dürer died, Johannes Gutenberg died 2 years before Albrecht Dürer was born, Akbar was born 14 years after Albrecht Dürer died and Michel de Montaigne was born 5 years after Albrecht Dürer died.

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All 49 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. Vasco da Gama 1457–1469 – 1524
  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. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  23. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  24. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  25. Luís de Camões 1524–1525 – 1580
  26. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  27. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  28. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  29. Babur 1483 – 1530
  30. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  31. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  32. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  33. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  34. Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  35. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  36. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  37. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  38. Julius II 1443 – 1513
  39. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  40. Leo X 1475 – 1521
  41. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  42. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  43. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  44. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  45. Pieter Brueghel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  46. Vlad the Impaler 1428–1431 – 1476–1477
  47. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  48. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  49. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541