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Andrea Palladio
Alessandro Maganza, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Andrea Palladio

Venetian architect

Born 30 November 1508 · died c. 1580
Also known as Andrea di Pietro, A. Palladio, Palladio

Who was alive at the same time as Andrea Palladio?

  1. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  2. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  3. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  4. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  5. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  6. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  7. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  8. Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1480 – 1521
  9. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  10. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  11. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  12. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  13. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  14. Andrea Palladio, 1508 – c. 1580
  15. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  16. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  17. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  18. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  19. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  20. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  21. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  22. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  23. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  24. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640

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When Andrea Palladio was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 56, Michelangelo was 33, Martin Luther was 25, Niccolò Machiavelli was 39 and Nicolaus Copernicus was 35.

Born during Andrea Palladio’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, Miguel de Cervantes, Elizabeth I, Francis Bacon, Johannes Kepler, Peter Paul Rubens and Akbar.

Not quite contemporaries: René Descartes was born about 14 years after Andrea Palladio died, Christopher Columbus died about 2 years before Andrea Palladio was born, Thomas Hobbes was born about 6 years after Andrea Palladio died and Cardinal Richelieu was born about 3 years after Andrea Palladio died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

193 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Andrea Palladio. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1543.

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1519
  3. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  4. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  5. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  6. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  7. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  8. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  9. Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480 – 1521
  10. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  11. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  12. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  13. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  14. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  15. Vasco da Gama c. 1464 – 1524
  16. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  17. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  18. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  19. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  20. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  21. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  22. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  23. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  24. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  25. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  26. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  27. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  28. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  29. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  30. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  31. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  32. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  33. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  34. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  35. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  36. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  37. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  38. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  39. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  40. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  41. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  42. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  43. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  44. Babur 1483 – 1530
  45. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  46. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  47. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  48. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  49. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  50. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  51. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  52. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  53. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  54. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  55. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  56. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  57. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  58. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  59. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  60. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  61. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  62. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  63. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  64. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  65. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  66. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  67. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  68. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  69. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  70. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  71. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  72. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  73. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  74. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  75. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  76. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  77. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  78. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  79. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  80. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  81. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  82. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  83. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  84. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  85. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  86. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  87. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  88. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  89. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  90. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  91. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  92. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  93. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  94. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  95. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  96. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  97. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  98. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  99. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  100. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  101. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  102. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  103. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  104. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  105. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  106. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  107. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  108. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  109. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  110. Lady Jane Grey 1537 – 1554
  111. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  112. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  113. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  114. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  115. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  116. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  117. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  118. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  119. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  120. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  121. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  122. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  123. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  124. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  125. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  126. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  127. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  128. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  129. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  130. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  131. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  132. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  133. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  134. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  135. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  136. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  137. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  138. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  139. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  140. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  141. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  142. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  143. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  144. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  145. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  146. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  147. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  148. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  149. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  150. Francis II of France 1544 – 1560