Who Was Alive

Francis Drake

English sailor and privateer

Born c. 1540 · died 28 January 1596

Who was alive at the same time as Francis Drake?

  1. Nicolaus Copernicus
  2. Michelangelo
  3. Martin Luther
  4. Hernán Cortés
  5. Mimar Sinan
  6. Jacques Cartier
  7. François Rabelais
  8. Suleiman the Magnificent
  9. Charles V
  10. John Calvin
  11. Michel de Montaigne
  12. Elizabeth I of England
  13. Francis Drake
  14. Akbar
  15. Miguel de Cervantes
  16. Tycho Brahe
  17. Giordano Bruno
  18. Francis Bacon
  19. Lope de Vega
  20. Galileo Galilei
  21. William Shakespeare
  22. Johannes Kepler
  23. Peter Paul Rubens
  24. Thomas Hobbes
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Francis Drake died, William Shakespeare was 31, Galileo Galilei was 31, Francis Bacon was 34, Elizabeth I of England was 62 and Johannes Kepler was 24.

Born during Francis Drake’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, Miguel de Cervantes, Francis Bacon, Johannes Kepler, Peter Paul Rubens, Thomas Hobbes and Giordano Bruno.

Not quite contemporaries: René Descartes was born months after Francis Drake died, Niccolò Machiavelli died 11 years before Francis Drake was born, Rembrandt was born 10 years after Francis Drake died and Albrecht Dürer died 10 years before Francis Drake was born.

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All 54 contemporaries we track

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  4. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  5. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  6. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  7. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  8. Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603
  9. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  10. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  11. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  12. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  13. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  14. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  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. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  21. Charles V 1500 – 1558
  22. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  23. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  24. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  25. Henry VIII of England 1491 – 1547
  26. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  27. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  28. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  29. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  30. Luís de Camões 1524–1525 – 1580
  31. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  32. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  33. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  34. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  35. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  36. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  37. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  38. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  39. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  40. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  41. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  42. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  43. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  44. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  45. Edward VI of England 1537 – 1553
  46. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  47. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  48. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  49. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  50. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  51. Pieter Brueghel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  52. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  53. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  54. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644