Who Was Alive
Elizabeth Báthory
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Elizabeth Báthory

Hungarian land owner

Born 7 August 1560 · died 21 August 1614, aged 54
Also known as The Blood Countess, Erzsebet Bathory, Elizabeth Bathory

Who was alive at the same time as Elizabeth Báthory?

  1. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  2. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  3. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  4. Nostradamus, 1503 – 1566
  5. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564
  6. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  7. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  8. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  9. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  10. Tycho Brahe, 1546 – 1601
  11. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  12. Elizabeth Báthory, 1560 – 1614
  13. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  14. Lope de Vega, 1562 – 1635
  15. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  16. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  17. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  18. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  19. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  20. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  21. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  22. Oliver Cromwell, 1599 – 1658
  23. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  24. John Milton, 1608 – 1674

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When Elizabeth Báthory was born, Michelangelo was 85, Elizabeth I was 26, Akbar was 17, Suleiman the Magnificent was 65 and Giordano Bruno was 12.

When Elizabeth Báthory died, William Shakespeare was 50, Galileo Galilei was 50, René Descartes was 18, Rembrandt was 8 and Francis Bacon was 53.

Born during Elizabeth Báthory’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, René Descartes, Rembrandt, Francis Bacon, Johannes Kepler, Peter Paul Rubens and Diego Velázquez.

Not quite contemporaries: Martin Luther died about 14 years before Elizabeth Báthory was born, Molière was born about 8 years after Elizabeth Báthory died, Blaise Pascal was born about 9 years after Elizabeth Báthory died and Hernán Cortés died about 13 years before Elizabeth Báthory was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

163 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Elizabeth Báthory. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1587.

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  4. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  5. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  6. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  7. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  8. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  9. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  10. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  11. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  12. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  13. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  14. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  15. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  16. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  17. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  18. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  19. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  20. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  21. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  22. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  23. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  24. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  25. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  26. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  27. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  28. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  29. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  30. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  31. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  32. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  33. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  34. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  35. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  36. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  37. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  38. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  39. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  40. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  41. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  42. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  43. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  44. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  45. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  46. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  47. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  48. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  49. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  50. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  51. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  52. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  53. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  54. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  55. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  56. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  57. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  58. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  59. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  60. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  61. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  62. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  63. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  64. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  65. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  66. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  67. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  68. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  69. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  70. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  71. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  72. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  73. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  74. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  75. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  76. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  77. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  78. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  79. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  80. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  81. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  82. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  83. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  84. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  85. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  86. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  87. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  88. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  89. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  90. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  91. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  92. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  93. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  94. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  95. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  96. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  97. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  98. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  99. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  100. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  101. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  102. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  103. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  104. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  105. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  106. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  107. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  108. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  109. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  110. Osman II 1604 – 1622
  111. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  112. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  113. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  114. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  115. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  116. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  117. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  118. Murad IV 1612 – 1640
  119. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  120. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  121. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  122. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  123. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  124. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  125. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  126. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  127. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  128. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  129. Francis II of France 1544 – 1560
  130. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  131. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  132. Mumtaz Mahal 1593 – 1631
  133. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  134. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  135. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  136. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  137. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  138. Marie de' Medici 1575 – 1642
  139. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  140. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593
  141. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598
  142. Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor 1527 – 1576
  143. Christian IV of Denmark 1577 – 1648
  144. Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 – 1625
  145. George Herbert 1593 – 1633
  146. Pocahontas c. 1596 – 1617
  147. Francesco Borromini 1599 – 1667
  148. Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor 1608 – 1657
  149. Bronzino 1503 – 1572
  150. Matteo Ricci 1552 – 1610