Who Was Alive

Christopher Columbus

Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist

Born 1451 · died 20 May 1506, aged 54 or 55

Who was alive at the same time as Christopher Columbus?

  1. Johannes Gutenberg
  2. Mehmed II
  3. Sandro Botticelli
  4. Christopher Columbus
  5. Leonardo da Vinci
  6. Amerigo Vespucci
  7. Vasco da Gama
  8. Erasmus
  9. Niccolò Machiavelli
  10. Albrecht Dürer
  11. Nicolaus Copernicus
  12. Michelangelo
  13. Thomas More
  14. Ferdinand Magellan
  15. Raphael
  16. Martin Luther
  17. Hernán Cortés
  18. Mimar Sinan
  19. Henry VIII of England
  20. Jacques Cartier
  21. François Rabelais
  22. Suleiman the Magnificent
  23. Charles V
  24. Nostradamus
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 Christopher Columbus was born, Mehmed II was 18 or 19, François Villon was 19 or 20, Julius II was 7 or 8 and Pius II was 45 or 46.

When Christopher Columbus died, Leonardo da Vinci was 54, Michelangelo was 31, Martin Luther was 22, Niccolò Machiavelli was 37 and Nicolaus Copernicus was 33.

Born during Christopher Columbus’s lifetime: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Martin Luther, Niccolò Machiavelli, Nicolaus Copernicus, Ferdinand Magellan, Raphael and Albrecht Dürer.

Not quite contemporaries: John Calvin was born 3 years after Christopher Columbus died, Teresa of Ávila was born 9 years after Christopher Columbus died and Mary I was born 10 years after Christopher Columbus died.

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All 46 contemporaries we track

  1. Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1519
  2. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  3. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  4. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  5. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  6. Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480 – 1521
  7. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  8. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  9. Vasco da Gama 1457–1469 – 1524
  10. Johannes Gutenberg 1393–1406 – 1468
  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 1500 – 1558
  19. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  20. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  21. Henry VIII of England 1491 – 1547
  22. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  23. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  24. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  25. Donatello c. 1386 – 1466
  26. Babur 1483 – 1530
  27. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  28. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  29. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  30. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  31. Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  32. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  33. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  34. François Villon 1431 – 1463
  35. Julius II 1443 – 1513
  36. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  37. Leo X 1475 – 1521
  38. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  39. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  40. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  41. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  42. Vlad the Impaler 1428–1431 – 1476–1477
  43. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  44. Pius II 1405 – 1464
  45. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  46. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541