Who Was Alive
Giovanni Bellini
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Giovanni Bellini

Venetian painter

Born c. 1430 · died 26–29 November 1516
Also known as Giovanni Bellein, Giovanni Bellinj, Giovanni Bellino

Who was alive at the same time as Giovanni Bellini?

  1. Zheng He, 1371 – c. 1435
  2. Johannes Gutenberg, c. 1400 – 1468
  3. Giovanni Bellini, c. 1430 – 1516
  4. Mehmed II, 1432 – 1481
  5. Christopher Columbus, 1451 – 1506
  6. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  7. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  8. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  9. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  10. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  11. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  12. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  13. Thomas More, c. 1478 – 1535
  14. Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1480 – 1521
  15. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  16. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  17. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  18. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  19. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  20. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  21. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  22. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500 – 1558
  23. Nostradamus, 1503 – 1566
  24. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564

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When Giovanni Bellini died, Leonardo da Vinci was 64, Michelangelo was 41, Martin Luther was 33, Niccolò Machiavelli was 47 and Nicolaus Copernicus was 43.

Born during Giovanni Bellini’s lifetime: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Martin Luther, Christopher Columbus, Niccolò Machiavelli, Nicolaus Copernicus, Ferdinand Magellan and Raphael.

Not quite contemporaries: Ivan the Terrible was born about 14 years after Giovanni Bellini died, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was born about 9 years after Giovanni Bellini died, Luís de Camões was born about 8 years after Giovanni Bellini died and Philip II of Spain was born about 11 years after Giovanni Bellini died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

159 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Giovanni Bellini. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1475.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1519
  2. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  3. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  4. Christopher Columbus 1451 – 1506
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  6. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  7. Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480 – 1521
  8. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  9. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  10. Vasco da Gama c. 1464 – 1524
  11. Johannes Gutenberg c. 1400 – 1468
  12. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  13. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  14. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  15. Zheng He 1371 – c. 1435
  16. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  17. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  18. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  19. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  20. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  21. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  22. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  23. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  24. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  25. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  26. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  27. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  28. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  29. Donatello c. 1386 – 1466
  30. Babur 1483 – 1530
  31. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  32. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  33. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  34. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  35. Pope Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  36. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  37. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  38. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  39. François Villon 1431 – 1463
  40. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  41. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  42. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  43. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  44. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  45. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  46. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  47. Vlad the Impaler c. 1430 – c. 1477
  48. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  49. Pope Pius II 1405 – 1464
  50. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  51. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  52. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  53. Leon Battista Alberti 1404 – 1472
  54. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  55. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  56. Richard III of England 1452 – 1485
  57. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  58. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  59. Pope Callixtus III 1379 – 1458
  60. Jan van Eyck c. 1390 – 1441
  61. Jami 1414 – 1492
  62. Lorenzo de' Medici 1449 – 1492
  63. Girolamo Savonarola 1452 – 1498
  64. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  65. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  66. Pope Eugene IV 1383 – 1447
  67. Pope Nicholas V c. 1397 – 1455
  68. Louis XI 1423 – 1483
  69. Skanderbeg 1405 – 1468
  70. Pope Sixtus IV 1414 – 1484
  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. Nicholas of Cusa 1401 – 1464
  76. Pope Innocent VIII 1432 – 1492
  77. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  78. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  79. Pope Paul II 1417 – 1471
  80. Bartolomeu Dias c. 1467 – 1500
  81. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  82. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  83. Murad II 1404 – 1451
  84. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  85. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  86. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  87. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  88. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  89. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  90. Ulugh Beg 1394 – 1449
  91. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  92. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  93. Thomas à Kempis c. 1381 – 1471
  94. Charles VII of France 1403 – 1461
  95. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  96. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  97. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  98. Fra Angelico c. 1396 – 1455
  99. Sejong the Great 1397 – 1450
  100. Edward IV 1442 – 1483
  101. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 1463 – 1494
  102. Charles VIII of France 1470 – 1498
  103. Władysław II Jagiełło 1362 – 1434
  104. Constantine XI Palaiologos 1404 – 1453
  105. Henry VI of England 1421 – 1471
  106. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  107. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  108. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  109. Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor 1368 – 1437
  110. Matthias Corvinus 1443 – 1490
  111. Domenico Ghirlandaio 1448 – 1494
  112. Marsilio Ficino 1433 – 1499
  113. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  114. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  115. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  116. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  117. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  118. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  119. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  120. Ali-Shir Nava'i 1441 – 1501
  121. John Cabot c. 1450 – c. 1498
  122. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  123. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  124. Filippo Brunelleschi 1377 – 1446
  125. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  126. Piero della Francesca 1415 – 1492
  127. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  128. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  129. James V 1512 – 1542
  130. Prince Henry the Navigator 1394 – 1460
  131. Giorgione 1478 – 1510
  132. Michael Servetus 1511 – 1553
  133. Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor 1415 – 1493
  134. Andrea del Verrocchio c. 1435 – 1488
  135. Charles the Bold 1433 – 1477
  136. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  137. Pietro Perugino 1448 – 1523
  138. Cesare Borgia 1475 – 1507
  139. Anne of Cleves 1515 – 1557
  140. Zeami Motokiyo c. 1363 – 1443
  141. Juan Sebastián Elcano c. 1486 – 1526
  142. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486 – 1534
  143. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556
  144. Bronzino 1503 – 1572
  145. Juan Ponce de León 1460 – 1521
  146. Manuel I of Portugal 1469 – 1521
  147. Georgius Agricola 1494 – 1555
  148. Jane Seymour 1508 – 1537
  149. James I of Scotland 1394 – 1437
  150. Piri Reis c. 1470 – c. 1554