Who Was Alive
Giorgio Vasari
Attributed to Jacopo Zucchi, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Giorgio Vasari

Italian painter and architect

Born 30 July 1511 · died 27 June 1574, aged 62
Also known as Aretino, Giorgio Laretino, Giorg. Vasari

Who was alive at the same time as Giorgio Vasari?

  1. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  2. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  3. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  4. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  5. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  6. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  7. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  8. Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1480 – 1521
  9. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  10. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  11. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  12. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  13. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  14. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  15. Giorgio Vasari, 1511 – 1574
  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 Giorgio Vasari was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 59, Michelangelo was 36, Martin Luther was 27, Niccolò Machiavelli was 42 and Nicolaus Copernicus was 38.

When Giorgio Vasari died, William Shakespeare was 10, Galileo Galilei was 10, Elizabeth I was 40, Francis Bacon was 13 and Johannes Kepler was 2.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Christopher Columbus died about 5 years before Giorgio Vasari was born, Peter Paul Rubens was born about 3 years after Giorgio Vasari died, Thomas Hobbes was born about 14 years after Giorgio Vasari died and Sandro Botticelli died about a year before Giorgio Vasari was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

183 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Giorgio Vasari. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1543.

  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. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  8. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  9. Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480 – 1521
  10. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  11. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  12. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  13. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  14. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  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. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  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. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  50. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  51. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  52. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  53. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  54. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  55. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  56. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  57. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  58. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  59. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  60. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  61. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  62. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  63. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  64. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  65. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  66. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  67. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  68. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  69. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  70. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  71. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  72. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  73. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  74. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  75. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  76. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  77. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  78. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  79. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  80. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  81. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  82. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  83. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  84. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  85. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  86. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  87. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  88. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  89. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  90. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  91. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  92. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  93. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  94. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  95. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  96. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  97. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  98. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  99. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  100. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  101. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  102. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  103. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  104. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  105. Lady Jane Grey 1537 – 1554
  106. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  107. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  108. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  109. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  110. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  111. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  112. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  113. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  114. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  115. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  116. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  117. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  118. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  119. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  120. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  121. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  122. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  123. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  124. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  125. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  126. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  127. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  128. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  129. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  130. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  131. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  132. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  133. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  134. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  135. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  136. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  137. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  138. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  139. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  140. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  141. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  142. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  143. Francis II of France 1544 – 1560
  144. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  145. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  146. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  147. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  148. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  149. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  150. James V 1512 – 1542