Who Was Alive
Catherine Howard
Hans Holbein the Younger, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Catherine Howard

English consort

Born 1524 · died 13 February 1542, aged 17 or 18
Also known as Katherine Howard, Katheryn Howard

Who was alive at the same time as Catherine Howard?

  1. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  2. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  3. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  4. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  5. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  6. Thomas More, c. 1478 – 1535
  7. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  8. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  9. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  10. Henry VIII, 1491 – 1547
  11. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  12. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  13. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  14. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500 – 1558
  15. Nostradamus, 1503 – 1566
  16. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564
  17. Catherine Howard, 1524 – 1542
  18. Luís de Camões, c. 1525 – 1580
  19. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, 1525 – 1594
  20. Philip II of Spain, 1527 – 1598
  21. Ivan the Terrible, 1530 – 1584
  22. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  23. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  24. El Greco, 1541 – 1614

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When Catherine Howard was born, Michelangelo was 48 or 49, Martin Luther was 40 or 41, Niccolò Machiavelli was 54 or 55, Nicolaus Copernicus was 50 or 51 and Albrecht Dürer was 52 or 53.

When Catherine Howard died, Michelangelo was 66, Martin Luther was 58, Nicolaus Copernicus was 68, Elizabeth I was 8 and Hernán Cortés was 56 or 57.

Born during Catherine Howard’s lifetime: Elizabeth I, Michel de Montaigne, Ivan the Terrible, El Greco, Philip II of Spain, Edward VI, Pope Leo XI and Pope Clement VIII.

Not quite contemporaries: Leonardo da Vinci died about 5 years before Catherine Howard was born, Miguel de Cervantes was born about 3 years after Catherine Howard died, Ferdinand Magellan died about 3 years before Catherine Howard was born and Raphael died about 4 years before Catherine Howard was born.

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Where Catherine Howard’s contemporaries were born

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The 105 best-known contemporaries

105 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Catherine Howard. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1534.

  1. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  2. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  3. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  4. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  5. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  6. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  7. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  8. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  9. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  10. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  11. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  12. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  13. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  14. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  15. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  16. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  17. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  18. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  19. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  20. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  21. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  22. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  23. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  24. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  25. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  26. Babur 1483 – 1530
  27. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  28. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  29. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  30. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  31. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  32. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  33. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  34. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  35. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  36. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  37. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  38. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  39. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  40. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  41. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  42. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  43. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  44. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  45. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  46. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  47. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  48. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  49. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  50. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  51. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  52. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  53. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  54. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  55. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  56. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  57. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  58. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  59. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  60. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  61. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  62. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  63. Lady Jane Grey 1537 – 1554
  64. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  65. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  66. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  67. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  68. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  69. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  70. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  71. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  72. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  73. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  74. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  75. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  76. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  77. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  78. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  79. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  80. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  81. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  82. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  83. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  84. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  85. James V 1512 – 1542
  86. Michael Servetus 1511 – 1553
  87. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  88. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  89. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593
  90. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598
  91. Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor 1527 – 1576
  92. Anne of Cleves 1515 – 1557
  93. Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 – 1625
  94. Juan Sebastián Elcano c. 1486 – 1526
  95. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486 – 1534
  96. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556
  97. Bronzino 1503 – 1572
  98. Georgius Agricola 1494 – 1555
  99. Jane Seymour 1508 – 1537
  100. Piri Reis c. 1470 – c. 1554
  101. Baldassare Castiglione 1478 – 1529
  102. Vasili III of Russia 1479 – 1533
  103. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 1486 – 1535
  104. Jean Bodin 1530 – 1596
  105. Joseph of Anchieta 1534 – 1597