Who Was Alive
Gerolamo Cardano
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Gerolamo Cardano

Milanese mathematician and physician

Born 24 September 1501 · died 21 September 1576, aged 74
Also known as Jerome Cardan

Who was alive at the same time as Gerolamo Cardano?

  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. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  14. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  15. Gerolamo Cardano, 1501 – 1576
  16. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  17. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  18. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  19. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  20. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  21. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  22. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  23. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  24. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630

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When Gerolamo Cardano was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 49, Michelangelo was 26, Martin Luther was 17, Christopher Columbus was 49 or 50 and Niccolò Machiavelli was 32.

When Gerolamo Cardano died, William Shakespeare was 12, Galileo Galilei was 12, Elizabeth I was 43, Francis Bacon was 15 and Johannes Kepler was 4.

Born during Gerolamo Cardano’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, Miguel de Cervantes, Elizabeth I, Francis Bacon, Johannes Kepler, Akbar and Giordano Bruno.

Not quite contemporaries: Peter Paul Rubens was born about a year after Gerolamo Cardano died, Thomas Hobbes was born about 12 years after Gerolamo Cardano died, Cardinal Richelieu was born about 9 years after Gerolamo Cardano died and Hugo Grotius was born about 7 years after Gerolamo Cardano died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

195 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Gerolamo Cardano. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1539.

  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. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  16. Vasco da Gama c. 1464 – 1524
  17. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  18. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  19. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  20. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  21. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  22. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  23. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  24. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  25. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  26. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  27. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  28. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  29. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  30. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  31. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  32. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  33. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  34. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  35. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  36. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  37. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  38. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  39. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  40. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  41. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  42. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  43. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  44. Babur 1483 – 1530
  45. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  46. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  47. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  48. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  49. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  50. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  51. Pope Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  52. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  53. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  54. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  55. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  56. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  57. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  58. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  59. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  60. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  61. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  62. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  63. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  64. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  65. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  66. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  67. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  68. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  69. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  70. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  71. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  72. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  73. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  74. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  75. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  76. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  77. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  78. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  79. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  80. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  81. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  82. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  83. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  84. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  85. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  86. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  87. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  88. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  89. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  90. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  91. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  92. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  93. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  94. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  95. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  96. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  97. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  98. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  99. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  100. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  101. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  102. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  103. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  104. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  105. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  106. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  107. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  108. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  109. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  110. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  111. Lady Jane Grey 1537 – 1554
  112. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  113. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  114. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  115. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  116. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  117. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  118. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  119. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  120. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  121. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  122. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  123. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  124. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  125. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  126. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  127. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  128. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  129. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  130. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  131. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  132. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  133. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  134. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  135. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  136. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  137. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  138. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  139. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  140. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  141. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  142. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  143. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  144. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  145. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  146. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  147. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  148. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  149. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  150. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566