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Cosimo de' Medici
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Cosimo de' Medici

Diplomat

Born 27 September 1389 · died 1 August 1464, aged 74
Also known as Cosimo the Elder, Cosimo de' Medici il Vecchio, Cosimo Pater Patriae

Who was alive at the same time as Cosimo de' Medici?

  1. Ibn Khaldun, c. 1332 – c. 1406
  2. Timur, 1336 – 1405
  3. Geoffrey Chaucer, c. 1343 – c. 1400
  4. Jan Hus, c. 1375 – 1415
  5. Zheng He, 1371 – c. 1435
  6. Donatello, c. 1386 – 1466
  7. Cosimo de' Medici, 1389 – 1464
  8. Johannes Gutenberg, c. 1400 – 1468
  9. Leon Battista Alberti, 1404 – 1472
  10. Pope Pius II, 1405 – 1464
  11. Joan of Arc, c. 1412 – 1431
  12. Vlad the Impaler, c. 1430 – c. 1477
  13. Pope Alexander VI, c. 1431 – 1503
  14. François Villon, 1431 – 1463
  15. Mehmed II, 1432 – 1481
  16. Sandro Botticelli, c. 1445 – 1510
  17. Pope Julius II, 1443 – 1513
  18. Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1450 – 1516
  19. Christopher Columbus, 1451 – 1506
  20. Isabella I of Castile, 1451 – 1504
  21. Ferdinand II of Aragon, 1452 – 1516
  22. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  23. Richard III of England, 1452 – 1485
  24. Amerigo Vespucci, 1454 – 1512

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When Cosimo de' Medici was born, Ibn Khaldun was 56 or 57, Timur was 53, Zheng He was 17 or 18, Pope Callixtus III was 10 and Henry V of England was 3.

When Cosimo de' Medici died, Leonardo da Vinci was 12, Christopher Columbus was 12 or 13, Mehmed II was 32, Amerigo Vespucci was 10 and Isabella I of Castile was 13.

Born during Cosimo de' Medici’s lifetime: Leonardo da Vinci, Christopher Columbus, Joan of Arc, Johannes Gutenberg, Mehmed II, Sandro Botticelli, Amerigo Vespucci and Pope Alexander VI.

Not quite contemporaries: Michelangelo was born about 11 years after Cosimo de' Medici died, Niccolò Machiavelli was born about 5 years after Cosimo de' Medici died, Nicolaus Copernicus was born about 9 years after Cosimo de' Medici died and Ferdinand Magellan was born about 14 years after Cosimo de' Medici died.

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The 95 best-known contemporaries

95 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Cosimo de' Medici. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1427.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1519
  2. Christopher Columbus 1451 – 1506
  3. Joan of Arc c. 1412 – 1431
  4. Johannes Gutenberg c. 1400 – 1468
  5. Geoffrey Chaucer c. 1343 – c. 1400
  6. Ibn Khaldun c. 1332 – c. 1406
  7. Timur 1336 – 1405
  8. Zheng He 1371 – c. 1435
  9. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  10. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  11. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  12. Donatello c. 1386 – 1466
  13. Jan Hus c. 1375 – 1415
  14. Pope Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  15. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  16. François Villon 1431 – 1463
  17. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  18. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  19. Vlad the Impaler c. 1430 – c. 1477
  20. Pope Pius II 1405 – 1464
  21. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  22. Leon Battista Alberti 1404 – 1472
  23. Richard III of England 1452 – 1485
  24. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  25. Pope Callixtus III 1379 – 1458
  26. Henry V of England 1386 – 1422
  27. Jan van Eyck c. 1390 – 1441
  28. Jami 1414 – 1492
  29. Lorenzo de' Medici 1449 – 1492
  30. Girolamo Savonarola 1452 – 1498
  31. Bayezid I c. 1354 – 1403
  32. Pope Eugene IV 1383 – 1447
  33. Pope Nicholas V c. 1397 – 1455
  34. Louis XI 1423 – 1483
  35. Skanderbeg 1405 – 1468
  36. Pope Sixtus IV 1414 – 1484
  37. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  38. Nicholas of Cusa 1401 – 1464
  39. Pope Innocent VIII 1432 – 1492
  40. Pope Paul II 1417 – 1471
  41. Pope Martin V c. 1369 – 1431
  42. Murad II 1404 – 1451
  43. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  44. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  45. Christine de Pizan 1364 – 1430
  46. Charles VI of France 1368 – 1422
  47. Masaccio 1401 – 1428
  48. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  49. Ulugh Beg 1394 – 1449
  50. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  51. Thomas à Kempis c. 1381 – 1471
  52. Charles VII of France 1403 – 1461
  53. Fra Angelico c. 1396 – 1455
  54. Sejong the Great 1397 – 1450
  55. Edward IV 1442 – 1483
  56. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 1463 – 1494
  57. Pope Urban VI c. 1318 – 1389
  58. Pope Gregory XII c. 1335 – 1417
  59. Władysław II Jagiełło 1362 – 1434
  60. Constantine XI Palaiologos 1404 – 1453
  61. Henry VI of England 1421 – 1471
  62. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  63. Richard II of England 1367 – c. 1400
  64. Pope Innocent VII c. 1338 – 1406
  65. Henry IV of England 1367 – 1413
  66. Mehmed I 1386 – 1421
  67. Pope Boniface IX 1356 – 1404
  68. Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor 1368 – 1437
  69. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  70. Matthias Corvinus 1443 – 1490
  71. Domenico Ghirlandaio 1448 – 1494
  72. Marsilio Ficino 1433 – 1499
  73. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  74. Andrei Rublev 1360s – 1430
  75. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  76. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  77. Ali-Shir Nava'i 1441 – 1501
  78. John Cabot c. 1450 – c. 1498
  79. Filippo Brunelleschi 1377 – 1446
  80. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  81. Hongwu Emperor 1328 – 1398
  82. Piero della Francesca 1415 – 1492
  83. Prince Henry the Navigator 1394 – 1460
  84. Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor 1415 – 1493
  85. Andrea del Verrocchio c. 1435 – 1488
  86. Charles the Bold 1433 – 1477
  87. Pietro Perugino 1448 – 1523
  88. Zeami Motokiyo c. 1363 – 1443
  89. Margaret I of Denmark 1353 – 1412
  90. Juan Ponce de León 1460 – 1521
  91. James I of Scotland 1394 – 1437
  92. Manuel II Palaiologos 1350 – 1425
  93. Rogier van der Weyden c. 1396 – 1464
  94. Christian I of Denmark 1426 – 1481
  95. Lorenzo Valla 1407 – 1457