Who Was Alive
Francis Xavier
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Francis Xavier

Spanish missionary

Born 7 April 1506 · died 3 December 1552, aged 46
Also known as François Xavier, Francesco Saverio, Francisco Javier

Who was alive at the same time as Francis Xavier?

  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. Thomas More, c. 1478 – 1535
  10. Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1480 – 1521
  11. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  12. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  13. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  14. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  15. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  16. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  17. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  18. Francis Xavier, 1506 – 1552
  19. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564
  20. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  21. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  22. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  23. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  24. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600

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When Francis Xavier was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 53, Michelangelo was 31, Martin Luther was 22, Christopher Columbus was 54 or 55 and Niccolò Machiavelli was 36.

When Francis Xavier died, Michelangelo was 77, Elizabeth I was 19, Akbar was 10, Jacques Cartier was 60 and Suleiman the Magnificent was 58.

Born during Francis Xavier’s lifetime: Miguel de Cervantes, Elizabeth I, Akbar, Giordano Bruno, Michel de Montaigne, John Calvin, Tycho Brahe and Francis Drake.

Not quite contemporaries: William Shakespeare was born about 12 years after Francis Xavier died, Galileo Galilei was born about 12 years after Francis Xavier died, Francis Bacon was born about 9 years after Francis Xavier died and Lope de Vega was born about 10 years after Francis Xavier died.

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Where Francis Xavier’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

159 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Francis Xavier. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1529.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1519
  2. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  3. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  4. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  5. Christopher Columbus 1451 – 1506
  6. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  7. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  8. Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480 – 1521
  9. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  10. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  11. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  12. Vasco da Gama c. 1464 – 1524
  13. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  14. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  15. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  16. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  17. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  18. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  19. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  20. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  21. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  22. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  23. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  24. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  25. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  26. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  27. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  28. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  29. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  30. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  31. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  32. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  33. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  34. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  35. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  36. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  37. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  38. Babur 1483 – 1530
  39. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  40. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  41. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  42. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  43. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  44. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  45. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  46. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  47. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  48. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  49. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  50. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  51. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  52. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  53. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  54. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  55. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  56. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  57. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  58. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  59. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  60. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  61. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  62. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  63. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  64. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  65. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  66. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  67. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  68. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  69. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  70. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  71. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  72. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  73. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  74. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  75. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  76. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  77. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  78. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  79. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  80. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  81. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  82. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  83. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  84. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  85. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  86. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  87. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  88. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  89. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  90. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  91. Lady Jane Grey 1537 – 1554
  92. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  93. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  94. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  95. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  96. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  97. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  98. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  99. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  100. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  101. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  102. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  103. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  104. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  105. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  106. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  107. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  108. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  109. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  110. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  111. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  112. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  113. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  114. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  115. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  116. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  117. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  118. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  119. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  120. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  121. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  122. Francis II of France 1544 – 1560
  123. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  124. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  125. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  126. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  127. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  128. James V 1512 – 1542
  129. Giorgione 1478 – 1510
  130. Michael Servetus 1511 – 1553
  131. Catherine Howard 1524 – 1542
  132. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  133. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  134. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593
  135. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598
  136. Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor 1527 – 1576
  137. Pietro Perugino 1448 – 1523
  138. Cesare Borgia 1475 – 1507
  139. Anne of Cleves 1515 – 1557
  140. Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 – 1625
  141. Juan Sebastián Elcano c. 1486 – 1526
  142. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486 – 1534
  143. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556
  144. Bronzino 1503 – 1572
  145. Matteo Ricci 1552 – 1610
  146. Juan Ponce de León 1460 – 1521
  147. Manuel I of Portugal 1469 – 1521
  148. Georgius Agricola 1494 – 1555
  149. Jane Seymour 1508 – 1537
  150. Piri Reis c. 1470 – c. 1554