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Fra Angelico
Luca Signorelli, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Fra Angelico

Italian painter

Born 1390–1400 · died 18 February 1455
Also known as Fra Giovanni da Fiesole, Fra Giovanni Angelico, Beato Angelico

Who was alive at the same time as Fra Angelico?

  1. Ibn Khaldun, c. 1332 – c. 1406
  2. Timur, 1336 – 1405
  3. Jan Hus, c. 1375 – 1415
  4. Zheng He, 1371 – c. 1435
  5. Pope Callixtus III, 1379 – 1458
  6. Donatello, c. 1386 – 1466
  7. Fra Angelico, c. 1396 – 1455
  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 Fra Angelico died, Leonardo da Vinci was 2, Christopher Columbus was 3 or 4, Mehmed II was 22, Amerigo Vespucci was under a year old and Isabella I of Castile was 3.

Born during Fra Angelico’s lifetime: Leonardo da Vinci, Christopher Columbus, Joan of Arc, Mehmed II, Sandro Botticelli, Amerigo Vespucci, Pope Alexander VI and Isabella I of Castile.

Not quite contemporaries: Niccolò Machiavelli was born about 14 years after Fra Angelico died, Vasco da Gama was born about 3 years after Fra Angelico died, Erasmus was born about 11 years after Fra Angelico died and Giovanni Boccaccio died about 15 years before Fra Angelico was born.

What happened in Fra Angelico’s lifetime

Where Fra Angelico’s contemporaries were born

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The 85 best-known contemporaries

85 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Fra Angelico. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1428.

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