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Benvenuto Cellini
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Benvenuto Cellini

Sculptor and goldsmith

Born 1–3 November 1500 · died 13 February 1571, aged 70
Also known as Benvenuto Celini, Benevenuto Cellini, B. Cellini

Who was alive at the same time as Benvenuto Cellini?

  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. 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. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  16. Benvenuto Cellini, 1500 – 1571
  17. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  18. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  19. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  20. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  21. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  22. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  23. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  24. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616

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When Benvenuto Cellini was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 48, Michelangelo was 25, Martin Luther was 16, Christopher Columbus was 48 or 49 and Niccolò Machiavelli was 31.

When Benvenuto Cellini died, William Shakespeare was 6, Galileo Galilei was 6, Elizabeth I was 37, Francis Bacon was 10 and Akbar was 28.

Born during Benvenuto Cellini’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, Miguel de Cervantes, Elizabeth I, Francis Bacon, Akbar, Giordano Bruno and Michel de Montaigne.

Not quite contemporaries: Johannes Kepler was born about a year after Benvenuto Cellini died, Peter Paul Rubens was born about 6 years after Benvenuto Cellini died, Caravaggio was born months after Benvenuto Cellini died and Cardinal Richelieu was born about 14 years after Benvenuto Cellini died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

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

  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. Christopher Columbus 1451 – 1506
  8. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  9. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  10. Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480 – 1521
  11. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  12. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  13. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  14. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  15. Vasco da Gama c. 1464 – 1524
  16. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  17. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  18. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  19. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  20. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  21. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  22. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  23. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  24. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  25. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  26. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  27. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  28. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  29. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  30. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  31. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  32. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  33. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  34. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  35. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  36. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  37. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  38. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  39. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  40. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  41. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  42. Babur 1483 – 1530
  43. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  44. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  45. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  46. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  47. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  48. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  49. Pope Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  50. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  51. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  52. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  53. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  54. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  55. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  56. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  57. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  58. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  59. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  60. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  61. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  62. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  63. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  64. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  65. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  66. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  67. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  68. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  69. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  70. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  71. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  72. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  73. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  74. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  75. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  76. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  77. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  78. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  79. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  80. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  81. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  82. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  83. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  84. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  85. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  86. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  87. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  88. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  89. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  90. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  91. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  92. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  93. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  94. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  95. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  96. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  97. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  98. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  99. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  100. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  101. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  102. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  103. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  104. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  105. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  106. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  107. Lady Jane Grey 1537 – 1554
  108. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  109. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  110. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  111. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  112. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  113. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  114. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  115. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  116. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  117. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  118. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  119. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  120. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  121. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  122. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  123. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  124. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  125. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  126. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  127. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  128. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  129. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  130. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  131. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  132. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  133. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  134. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  135. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  136. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  137. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  138. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  139. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  140. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  141. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  142. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  143. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  144. Ali-Shir Nava'i 1441 – 1501
  145. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  146. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  147. Francis II of France 1544 – 1560
  148. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  149. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  150. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615