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Boris Godunov
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Boris Godunov

Russian politician

Born 12 August 1552 · died 23 April 1605, aged 52

Who was alive at the same time as Boris Godunov?

  1. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  2. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  3. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  4. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  5. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  6. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500 – 1558
  7. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564
  8. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  9. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  10. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  11. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  12. Tycho Brahe, 1546 – 1601
  13. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  14. Boris Godunov, 1552 – 1605
  15. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  16. Lope de Vega, 1562 – 1635
  17. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  18. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  19. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  20. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  21. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  22. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  23. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  24. Oliver Cromwell, 1599 – 1658

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When Boris Godunov was born, Michelangelo was 77, Elizabeth I was 18, Akbar was 9, Jacques Cartier was 60 and Suleiman the Magnificent was 57.

When Boris Godunov died, William Shakespeare was 40 or 41, Galileo Galilei was 41, René Descartes was 9, Francis Bacon was 44 and Johannes Kepler was 33.

Born during Boris Godunov’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, René Descartes, Francis Bacon, Johannes Kepler, Peter Paul Rubens, Diego Velázquez and Thomas Hobbes.

Not quite contemporaries: Martin Luther died about 6 years before Boris Godunov was born, Nicolaus Copernicus died about 9 years before Boris Godunov was born, Rembrandt was born about a year after Boris Godunov died and Hernán Cortés died about 5 years before Boris Godunov was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

173 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Boris Godunov. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1579.

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  4. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  5. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  6. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  7. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  8. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  9. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  10. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  11. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  12. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  13. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  14. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  15. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  16. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  17. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  18. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  19. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  20. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  21. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  22. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  23. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  24. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  25. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  26. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  27. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  28. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  29. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  30. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  31. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  32. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  33. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  34. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  35. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  36. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  37. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  38. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  39. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  40. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  41. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  42. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  43. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  44. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  45. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  46. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  47. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  48. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  49. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  50. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  51. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  52. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  53. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  54. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  55. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  56. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  57. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  58. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  59. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  60. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  61. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  62. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  63. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  64. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  65. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  66. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  67. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  68. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  69. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  70. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  71. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  72. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  73. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  74. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  75. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  76. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  77. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  78. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  79. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  80. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  81. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  82. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  83. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  84. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  85. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  86. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  87. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  88. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  89. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  90. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  91. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  92. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  93. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  94. Lady Jane Grey 1537 – 1554
  95. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  96. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  97. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  98. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  99. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  100. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  101. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  102. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  103. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  104. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  105. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  106. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  107. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  108. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  109. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  110. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  111. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  112. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  113. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  114. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  115. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  116. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  117. Osman II 1604 – 1622
  118. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  119. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  120. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  121. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  122. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  123. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  124. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  125. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  126. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  127. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  128. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  129. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  130. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  131. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  132. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  133. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  134. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  135. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  136. Francis II of France 1544 – 1560
  137. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  138. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  139. Mumtaz Mahal 1593 – 1631
  140. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  141. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  142. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  143. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  144. Michael Servetus 1511 – 1553
  145. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  146. Marie de' Medici 1575 – 1642
  147. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  148. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593
  149. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598
  150. Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor 1527 – 1576