Who Was Alive

Babur

Founder of the Mughal Empire

Born 14 February 1483 · died 26 December 1530, aged 47

Who was alive at the same time as Babur?

  1. Christopher Columbus
  2. Leonardo da Vinci
  3. Vasco da Gama
  4. Erasmus
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli
  6. Albrecht Dürer
  7. Nicolaus Copernicus
  8. Michelangelo
  9. Thomas More
  10. Ferdinand Magellan
  11. Babur
  12. Raphael
  13. Martin Luther
  14. Hernán Cortés
  15. Mimar Sinan
  16. Henry VIII of England
  17. Jacques Cartier
  18. François Rabelais
  19. Suleiman the Magnificent
  20. Charles V
  21. Nostradamus
  22. John Calvin
  23. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
  24. Ivan the Terrible
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 Babur was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 30, Michelangelo was 7, Christopher Columbus was 31 or 32, Niccolò Machiavelli was 13 and Nicolaus Copernicus was 9.

When Babur died, Michelangelo was 55, Martin Luther was 47, Nicolaus Copernicus was 57, Hernán Cortés was 44 or 45 and Jacques Cartier was 38.

Born during Babur’s lifetime: Martin Luther, Raphael, Hernán Cortés, Jacques Cartier, Suleiman the Magnificent, Mimar Sinan, John Calvin and François Rabelais.

Not quite contemporaries: Miguel de Cervantes was born 14 years after Babur died, Elizabeth I of England was born 2 years after Babur died, Johannes Gutenberg died 14 years before Babur was born and Akbar was born 11 years after Babur died.

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All 48 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. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  12. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  13. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  14. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  15. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  16. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  17. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  18. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  19. Charles V 1500 – 1558
  20. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  21. Henry VIII of England 1491 – 1547
  22. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  23. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  24. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  25. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  26. Luís de Camões 1524–1525 – 1580
  27. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  28. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  29. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  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. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  47. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  48. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541