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Anne of Cleves
Hans Holbein the Younger, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Anne of Cleves

Aristocrat

Born 28 June 1515 · died 16 July 1557, aged 42
Also known as Anne von der Mark-Kleve

Who was alive at the same time as Anne of Cleves?

  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. Thomas More, c. 1478 – 1535
  9. Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1480 – 1521
  10. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  11. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  12. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  13. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  14. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  15. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  16. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  17. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500 – 1558
  18. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564
  19. Anne of Cleves, 1515 – 1557
  20. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  21. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  22. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  23. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  24. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600

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When Anne of Cleves was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 63, Michelangelo was 40, Martin Luther was 31, Niccolò Machiavelli was 46 and Nicolaus Copernicus was 42.

When Anne of Cleves died, Michelangelo was 82, Elizabeth I was 23, Akbar was 14, Jacques Cartier was 65 and Suleiman the Magnificent was 62.

Born during Anne of Cleves’s lifetime: Miguel de Cervantes, Elizabeth I, Akbar, Giordano Bruno, Michel de Montaigne, Tycho Brahe, Francis Drake and Ivan the Terrible.

Not quite contemporaries: William Shakespeare was born about 7 years after Anne of Cleves died, Galileo Galilei was born about 7 years after Anne of Cleves died, Christopher Columbus died about 9 years before Anne of Cleves was born and Francis Bacon was born about 4 years after Anne of Cleves died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

155 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Anne of Cleves. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1536.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1519
  2. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  3. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  4. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  6. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  7. Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480 – 1521
  8. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  9. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  10. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  11. Vasco da Gama c. 1464 – 1524
  12. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  13. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  14. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  15. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  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. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  23. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  24. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  25. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  26. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  27. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  28. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  29. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  30. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  31. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  32. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  33. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  34. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  35. Babur 1483 – 1530
  36. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  37. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  38. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  39. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  40. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  41. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  42. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  43. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  44. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  45. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  46. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  47. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  48. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  49. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  50. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  51. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  52. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  53. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  54. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  55. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  56. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  57. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  58. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  59. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  60. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  61. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  62. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  63. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  64. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  65. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  66. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  67. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  68. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  69. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  70. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  71. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  72. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  73. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  74. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  75. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  76. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  77. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  78. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  79. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  80. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  81. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  82. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  83. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  84. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  85. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  86. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  87. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  88. Lady Jane Grey 1537 – 1554
  89. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  90. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  91. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  92. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  93. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  94. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  95. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  96. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  97. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  98. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  99. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  100. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  101. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  102. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  103. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  104. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  105. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  106. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  107. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  108. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  109. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  110. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  111. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  112. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  113. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  114. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  115. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  116. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  117. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  118. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  119. Francis II of France 1544 – 1560
  120. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  121. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  122. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  123. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  124. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  125. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  126. James V 1512 – 1542
  127. Michael Servetus 1511 – 1553
  128. Catherine Howard 1524 – 1542
  129. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  130. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  131. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593
  132. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598
  133. Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor 1527 – 1576
  134. Pietro Perugino 1448 – 1523
  135. Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 – 1625
  136. Juan Sebastián Elcano c. 1486 – 1526
  137. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486 – 1534
  138. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556
  139. Bronzino 1503 – 1572
  140. Matteo Ricci 1552 – 1610
  141. Feodor I of Russia 1557 – 1598
  142. Juan Ponce de León 1460 – 1521
  143. Manuel I of Portugal 1469 – 1521
  144. Georgius Agricola 1494 – 1555
  145. Jane Seymour 1508 – 1537
  146. Piri Reis c. 1470 – c. 1554
  147. Charles IX of Sweden 1550 – 1611
  148. Vasco Núñez de Balboa c. 1475 – 1519
  149. Baldassare Castiglione 1478 – 1529
  150. Vasili III of Russia 1479 – 1533