Who Was Alive
Atahualpa
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Atahualpa

Sovereign

Born c. 1500 · died 5–29 August 1533

Who was alive at the same time as Atahualpa?

  1. Christopher Columbus, 1451 – 1506
  2. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  3. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  4. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  6. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  7. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  8. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  9. Thomas More, c. 1478 – 1535
  10. Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1480 – 1521
  11. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  12. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  13. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  14. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  15. Henry VIII, 1491 – 1547
  16. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  17. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  18. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  19. Atahualpa, c. 1500 – 1533
  20. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500 – 1558
  21. Nostradamus, 1503 – 1566
  22. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564
  23. Ivan the Terrible, 1530 – 1584
  24. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592

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When Atahualpa died, Michelangelo was 58, Martin Luther was 49, Nicolaus Copernicus was 60, Hernán Cortés was 47 or 48 and Jacques Cartier was 41.

Born during Atahualpa’s lifetime: Michel de Montaigne, John Calvin, Nostradamus, Ivan the Terrible, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Luís de Camões, Philip II of Spain and Teresa of Ávila.

Not quite contemporaries: Miguel de Cervantes was born about 12 years after Atahualpa died, Elizabeth I was born months after Atahualpa died, Akbar was born about 9 years after Atahualpa died and Giordano Bruno was born about 15 years after Atahualpa died.

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The 131 best-known contemporaries

131 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Atahualpa. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1518.

  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 c. 1464 – 1524
  11. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  12. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  13. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  14. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  15. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  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, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  21. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  22. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  23. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  24. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  25. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  26. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  27. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  28. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  29. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  30. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  31. Babur 1483 – 1530
  32. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  33. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  34. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  35. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  36. Pope Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  37. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  38. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  39. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  40. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  41. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  42. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  43. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  44. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  45. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  46. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  47. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  48. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  49. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  50. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  51. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  52. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  53. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  54. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  55. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  56. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  57. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  58. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  59. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  60. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  61. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  62. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  63. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  64. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  65. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  66. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  67. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  68. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  69. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  70. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  71. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  72. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  73. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  74. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  75. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  76. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  77. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  78. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  79. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  80. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  81. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  82. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  83. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  84. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  85. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  86. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  87. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  88. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  89. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  90. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  91. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  92. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  93. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  94. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  95. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  96. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  97. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  98. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  99. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  100. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  101. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  102. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  103. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  104. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  105. James V 1512 – 1542
  106. Giorgione 1478 – 1510
  107. Michael Servetus 1511 – 1553
  108. Catherine Howard 1524 – 1542
  109. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  110. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593
  111. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598
  112. Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor 1527 – 1576
  113. Pietro Perugino 1448 – 1523
  114. Cesare Borgia 1475 – 1507
  115. Anne of Cleves 1515 – 1557
  116. Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 – 1625
  117. Juan Sebastián Elcano c. 1486 – 1526
  118. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486 – 1534
  119. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556
  120. Bronzino 1503 – 1572
  121. Juan Ponce de León 1460 – 1521
  122. Manuel I of Portugal 1469 – 1521
  123. Georgius Agricola 1494 – 1555
  124. Jane Seymour 1508 – 1537
  125. Piri Reis c. 1470 – c. 1554
  126. Vasco Núñez de Balboa c. 1475 – 1519
  127. James IV 1473 – 1513
  128. Baldassare Castiglione 1478 – 1529
  129. Vasili III of Russia 1479 – 1533
  130. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 1486 – 1535
  131. Jean Bodin 1530 – 1596