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Cesare Borgia
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Cesare Borgia

Condottiero

Born 13 September 1475 · died 12 March 1507, aged 31
Also known as César de Borja, Cæsar Borgia, Caesar Borgia

Who was alive at the same time as Cesare Borgia?

  1. Mehmed II, 1432 – 1481
  2. Sandro Botticelli, c. 1445 – 1510
  3. Christopher Columbus, 1451 – 1506
  4. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  5. Amerigo Vespucci, 1454 – 1512
  6. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  7. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  8. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  9. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  10. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  11. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  12. Cesare Borgia, 1475 – 1507
  13. Thomas More, c. 1478 – 1535
  14. Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1480 – 1521
  15. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  16. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  17. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  18. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  19. Henry VIII, 1491 – 1547
  20. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  21. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  22. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  23. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500 – 1558
  24. Nostradamus, 1503 – 1566

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When Cesare Borgia was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 23, Michelangelo was under a year old, Christopher Columbus was 23 or 24, Niccolò Machiavelli was 6 and Nicolaus Copernicus was 2.

When Cesare Borgia died, Leonardo da Vinci was 54, Michelangelo was 32, Martin Luther was 23, Niccolò Machiavelli was 37 and Nicolaus Copernicus was 34.

Born during Cesare Borgia’s lifetime: Martin Luther, Ferdinand Magellan, Raphael, Hernán Cortés, Jacques Cartier, Suleiman the Magnificent, Mimar Sinan and François Rabelais.

Not quite contemporaries: Johannes Gutenberg died about 6 years before Cesare Borgia was born, John Calvin was born about 2 years after Cesare Borgia died, Teresa of Ávila was born about 8 years after Cesare Borgia died and Donatello died about 9 years before Cesare Borgia was born.

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The 116 best-known contemporaries

116 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Cesare Borgia. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1491.

  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. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  16. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  17. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  18. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  19. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  20. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  21. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  22. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  23. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  24. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  25. Babur 1483 – 1530
  26. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  27. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  28. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  29. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  30. Pope Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  31. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  32. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  33. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  34. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  35. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  36. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  37. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  38. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  39. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  40. Vlad the Impaler c. 1430 – c. 1477
  41. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  42. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  43. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  44. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  45. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  46. Richard III of England 1452 – 1485
  47. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  48. Jami 1414 – 1492
  49. Lorenzo de' Medici 1449 – 1492
  50. Girolamo Savonarola 1452 – 1498
  51. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  52. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  53. Louis XI 1423 – 1483
  54. Pope Sixtus IV 1414 – 1484
  55. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  56. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  57. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  58. Pope Innocent VIII 1432 – 1492
  59. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  60. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  61. Bartolomeu Dias c. 1467 – 1500
  62. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  63. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  64. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  65. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  66. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  67. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  68. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  69. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  70. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  71. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  72. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  73. Edward IV 1442 – 1483
  74. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 1463 – 1494
  75. Charles VIII of France 1470 – 1498
  76. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  77. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  78. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  79. Matthias Corvinus 1443 – 1490
  80. Domenico Ghirlandaio 1448 – 1494
  81. Marsilio Ficino 1433 – 1499
  82. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  83. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  84. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  85. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  86. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  87. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  88. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  89. Ali-Shir Nava'i 1441 – 1501
  90. John Cabot c. 1450 – c. 1498
  91. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  92. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  93. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  94. Piero della Francesca 1415 – 1492
  95. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  96. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  97. Giorgione 1478 – 1510
  98. Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor 1415 – 1493
  99. Andrea del Verrocchio c. 1435 – 1488
  100. Charles the Bold 1433 – 1477
  101. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  102. Pietro Perugino 1448 – 1523
  103. Juan Sebastián Elcano c. 1486 – 1526
  104. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486 – 1534
  105. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556
  106. Bronzino 1503 – 1572
  107. Juan Ponce de León 1460 – 1521
  108. Manuel I of Portugal 1469 – 1521
  109. Georgius Agricola 1494 – 1555
  110. Piri Reis c. 1470 – c. 1554
  111. Christian I of Denmark 1426 – 1481
  112. Vasco Núñez de Balboa c. 1475 – 1519
  113. James IV 1473 – 1513
  114. Baldassare Castiglione 1478 – 1529
  115. Vasili III of Russia 1479 – 1533
  116. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 1486 – 1535