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Domenico Ghirlandaio
Domenico Ghirlandaio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Domenico Ghirlandaio

Italian painter

Born 2 June 1448 · died 11 January 1494, aged 45
Also known as Domenico Bigordi, Domenico Ghirlandai, Ghirlandaio

Who was alive at the same time as Domenico Ghirlandaio?

  1. Donatello, c. 1386 – 1466
  2. Johannes Gutenberg, c. 1400 – 1468
  3. Mehmed II, 1432 – 1481
  4. Sandro Botticelli, c. 1445 – 1510
  5. Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1448 – 1494
  6. Christopher Columbus, 1451 – 1506
  7. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  8. Amerigo Vespucci, 1454 – 1512
  9. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  10. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  11. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  12. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  13. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  14. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  15. Thomas More, c. 1478 – 1535
  16. Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1480 – 1521
  17. Babur, 1483 – 1530
  18. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  19. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  20. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  21. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  22. Titian, c. 1490 – 1576
  23. Henry VIII, 1491 – 1547
  24. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557

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When Domenico Ghirlandaio was born, Mehmed II was 16, François Villon was 16 or 17, Pope Julius II was 4, Pope Pius II was 42 and Leon Battista Alberti was 44.

When Domenico Ghirlandaio died, Leonardo da Vinci was 41, Michelangelo was 18, Martin Luther was 10, Christopher Columbus was 42 or 43 and Niccolò Machiavelli was 24.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Zheng He died about 12 years before Domenico Ghirlandaio was born, Suleiman the Magnificent was born months after Domenico Ghirlandaio died, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor was born about 6 years after Domenico Ghirlandaio died and Nostradamus was born about 9 years after Domenico Ghirlandaio died.

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The 116 best-known contemporaries

116 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Domenico Ghirlandaio. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1471.

  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. Johannes Gutenberg c. 1400 – 1468
  12. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  13. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  14. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  15. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  16. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  17. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  18. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  19. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  20. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  21. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  22. Donatello c. 1386 – 1466
  23. Babur 1483 – 1530
  24. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  25. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  26. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  27. Pope Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  28. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  29. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  30. François Villon 1431 – 1463
  31. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  32. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  33. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  34. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  35. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  36. Vlad the Impaler c. 1430 – c. 1477
  37. Pope Pius II 1405 – 1464
  38. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  39. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  40. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  41. Leon Battista Alberti 1404 – 1472
  42. Richard III of England 1452 – 1485
  43. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  44. Pope Callixtus III 1379 – 1458
  45. Jami 1414 – 1492
  46. Lorenzo de' Medici 1449 – 1492
  47. Girolamo Savonarola 1452 – 1498
  48. Pope Nicholas V c. 1397 – 1455
  49. Louis XI 1423 – 1483
  50. Skanderbeg 1405 – 1468
  51. Pope Sixtus IV 1414 – 1484
  52. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  53. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  54. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  55. Nicholas of Cusa 1401 – 1464
  56. Pope Innocent VIII 1432 – 1492
  57. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  58. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  59. Pope Paul II 1417 – 1471
  60. Bartolomeu Dias c. 1467 – 1500
  61. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  62. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  63. Murad II 1404 – 1451
  64. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  65. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  66. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  67. Ulugh Beg 1394 – 1449
  68. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  69. Thomas à Kempis c. 1381 – 1471
  70. Charles VII of France 1403 – 1461
  71. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  72. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  73. Fra Angelico c. 1396 – 1455
  74. Sejong the Great 1397 – 1450
  75. Edward IV 1442 – 1483
  76. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 1463 – 1494
  77. Charles VIII of France 1470 – 1498
  78. Constantine XI Palaiologos 1404 – 1453
  79. Henry VI of England 1421 – 1471
  80. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  81. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  82. Matthias Corvinus 1443 – 1490
  83. Marsilio Ficino 1433 – 1499
  84. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  85. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  86. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  87. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  88. Ali-Shir Nava'i 1441 – 1501
  89. John Cabot c. 1450 – c. 1498
  90. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  91. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  92. Piero della Francesca 1415 – 1492
  93. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  94. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  95. Prince Henry the Navigator 1394 – 1460
  96. Giorgione 1478 – 1510
  97. Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor 1415 – 1493
  98. Andrea del Verrocchio c. 1435 – 1488
  99. Charles the Bold 1433 – 1477
  100. Pietro Perugino 1448 – 1523
  101. Cesare Borgia 1475 – 1507
  102. Juan Sebastián Elcano c. 1486 – 1526
  103. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486 – 1534
  104. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556
  105. Juan Ponce de León 1460 – 1521
  106. Manuel I of Portugal 1469 – 1521
  107. Piri Reis c. 1470 – c. 1554
  108. Cosimo de' Medici 1389 – 1464
  109. Rogier van der Weyden c. 1396 – 1464
  110. Christian I of Denmark 1426 – 1481
  111. Vasco Núñez de Balboa c. 1475 – 1519
  112. James IV 1473 – 1513
  113. Baldassare Castiglione 1478 – 1529
  114. Vasili III of Russia 1479 – 1533
  115. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 1486 – 1535
  116. Lorenzo Valla 1407 – 1457