Who Was Alive

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Italian Renaissance composer

Born 1525 · died 2 February 1594, aged 68 or 69

Who was alive at the same time as Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina?

  1. Erasmus
  2. Niccolò Machiavelli
  3. Albrecht Dürer
  4. Nicolaus Copernicus
  5. Michelangelo
  6. Martin Luther
  7. Hernán Cortés
  8. Mimar Sinan
  9. Jacques Cartier
  10. François Rabelais
  11. Suleiman the Magnificent
  12. John Calvin
  13. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
  14. Michel de Montaigne
  15. Elizabeth I of England
  16. Akbar
  17. Miguel de Cervantes
  18. Giordano Bruno
  19. Francis Bacon
  20. Galileo Galilei
  21. William Shakespeare
  22. Johannes Kepler
  23. Peter Paul Rubens
  24. Thomas Hobbes
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When Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was born, Michelangelo was 49 or 50, Martin Luther was 41 or 42, Niccolò Machiavelli was 55 or 56, Nicolaus Copernicus was 51 or 52 and Albrecht Dürer was 53 or 54.

When Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina died, William Shakespeare was 29, Galileo Galilei was 29, Francis Bacon was 33, Elizabeth I of England was 60 and Johannes Kepler was 22.

Born during Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, Miguel de Cervantes, Francis Bacon, Elizabeth I of England, Johannes Kepler, Peter Paul Rubens and Akbar.

Not quite contemporaries: Leonardo da Vinci died 6 years before Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was born, René Descartes was born 2 years after Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina died, Rembrandt was born 12 years after Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina died and Ferdinand Magellan died 4 years before Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was born.

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All 64 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. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  7. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  8. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  9. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  10. Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603
  11. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  12. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  13. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  14. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  15. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  16. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  17. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  18. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  19. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  20. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  21. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  22. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  23. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  24. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  25. Charles V 1500 – 1558
  26. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  27. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  28. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  29. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  30. Henry VIII of England 1491 – 1547
  31. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  32. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  33. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  34. Luís de Camões 1524–1525 – 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 1489–1493 – 1556
  43. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  44. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  45. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  46. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  47. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  48. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  49. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  50. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  51. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  52. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  53. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  54. Edward VI of England 1537 – 1553
  55. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  56. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  57. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  58. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  59. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  60. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  61. Pieter Brueghel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  62. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  63. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  64. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644