Who Was Alive

Amerigo Vespucci

Florentine explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer

Born 9 March 1454 · died 22 February 1512, aged 57

Who was alive at the same time as Amerigo Vespucci?

  1. Johannes Gutenberg
  2. Mehmed II
  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 Amerigo Vespucci was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 1, Christopher Columbus was 2 or 3, Mehmed II was 21, Isabella I of Castile was 2 and François Villon was 22 or 23.

When Amerigo Vespucci died, Leonardo da Vinci was 59, Michelangelo was 36, Martin Luther was 28, Niccolò Machiavelli was 42 and Nicolaus Copernicus was 39.

Born during Amerigo Vespucci’s lifetime: Michelangelo, Martin Luther, Niccolò Machiavelli, Nicolaus Copernicus, Ferdinand Magellan, Raphael, Albrecht Dürer and Vasco da Gama.

Not quite contemporaries: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was born 13 years after Amerigo Vespucci died, Luís de Camões was born 12 years after Amerigo Vespucci died, Teresa of Ávila was born 3 years after Amerigo Vespucci died and Mary I was born 4 years after Amerigo Vespucci died.

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All 47 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. Vasco da Gama 1457–1469 – 1524
  11. Johannes Gutenberg 1393–1406 – 1468
  12. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  13. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  14. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  15. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  16. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  17. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  18. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  19. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  20. Charles V 1500 – 1558
  21. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  22. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  23. Henry VIII of England 1491 – 1547
  24. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  25. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  26. Donatello c. 1386 – 1466
  27. Babur 1483 – 1530
  28. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  29. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  30. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  31. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  32. Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  33. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  34. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  35. François Villon 1431 – 1463
  36. Julius II 1443 – 1513
  37. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  38. Leo X 1475 – 1521
  39. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  40. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  41. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  42. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  43. Vlad the Impaler 1428–1431 – 1476–1477
  44. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  45. Pius II 1405 – 1464
  46. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  47. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541