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Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor
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Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor

Holy Roman Emperor

Born 10 March 1503 · died 25 July 1564, aged 61

Who was alive at the same time as Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor?

  1. Christopher Columbus, 1451 – 1506
  2. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  3. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  4. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  6. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  7. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  8. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  9. Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1480 – 1521
  10. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  11. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  12. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  13. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  14. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  15. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  16. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1503 – 1564
  17. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  18. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  19. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  20. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  21. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  22. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  23. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  24. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616

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When Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 50, Michelangelo was 27, Martin Luther was 19, Christopher Columbus was 51 or 52 and Niccolò Machiavelli was 33.

When Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor died, William Shakespeare was under a year old, Galileo Galilei was under a year old, Elizabeth I was 30, Francis Bacon was 3 and Akbar was 21.

Born during Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, Miguel de Cervantes, Elizabeth I, Francis Bacon, Akbar, Giordano Bruno and Michel de Montaigne.

Not quite contemporaries: Johannes Kepler was born about 8 years after Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor died, Peter Paul Rubens was born about 13 years after Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor died, Caravaggio was born about 7 years after Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor died and John Donne was born about 8 years after Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

177 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1534.

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1519
  3. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  4. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  5. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  6. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  7. Christopher Columbus 1451 – 1506
  8. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  9. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  10. Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480 – 1521
  11. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  12. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  13. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  14. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  15. Vasco da Gama c. 1464 – 1524
  16. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  17. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  18. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  19. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  20. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  21. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  22. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  23. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  24. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  25. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  26. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  27. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  28. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  29. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  30. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  31. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  32. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  33. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  34. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  35. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  36. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  37. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  38. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  39. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  40. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  41. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  42. Babur 1483 – 1530
  43. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  44. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  45. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  46. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  47. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  48. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  49. Pope Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  50. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  51. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  52. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  53. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  54. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  55. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  56. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  57. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  58. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  59. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  60. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  61. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  62. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  63. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  64. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  65. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  66. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  67. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  68. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  69. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  70. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  71. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  72. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  73. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  74. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  75. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  76. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  77. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  78. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  79. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  80. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  81. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  82. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  83. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  84. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  85. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  86. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  87. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  88. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  89. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  90. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  91. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  92. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  93. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  94. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  95. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  96. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  97. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  98. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  99. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  100. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  101. Lady Jane Grey 1537 – 1554
  102. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  103. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  104. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  105. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  106. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  107. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  108. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  109. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  110. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  111. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  112. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  113. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  114. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  115. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  116. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  117. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  118. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  119. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  120. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  121. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  122. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  123. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  124. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  125. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  126. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  127. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  128. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  129. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  130. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  131. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  132. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  133. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  134. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  135. Francis II of France 1544 – 1560
  136. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  137. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  138. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  139. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  140. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  141. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  142. James V 1512 – 1542
  143. Giorgione 1478 – 1510
  144. Michael Servetus 1511 – 1553
  145. Catherine Howard 1524 – 1542
  146. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  147. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  148. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593
  149. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598
  150. Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor 1527 – 1576