Who Was Alive
Girolamo Savonarola
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Girolamo Savonarola

Italian preacher

Born 21 September 1452 · died 23 May 1498, aged 45
Also known as Jerome Savonarole, Hieronimo Savonarola, Gerolamo Savonarola

Who was alive at the same time as Girolamo Savonarola?

  1. Johannes Gutenberg, c. 1400 – 1468
  2. Mehmed II, 1432 – 1481
  3. Sandro Botticelli, c. 1445 – 1510
  4. Christopher Columbus, 1451 – 1506
  5. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  6. Girolamo Savonarola, 1452 – 1498
  7. Amerigo Vespucci, 1454 – 1512
  8. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  9. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  10. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  11. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  12. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  13. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  14. Thomas More, c. 1478 – 1535
  15. Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1480 – 1521
  16. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  17. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  18. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  19. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  20. Titian, c. 1490 – 1576
  21. Henry VIII, 1491 – 1547
  22. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  23. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  24. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566

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When Girolamo Savonarola was born, Leonardo da Vinci was under a year old, Christopher Columbus was about a year old, Mehmed II was 20, Isabella I of Castile was 1 and François Villon was 20 or 21.

When Girolamo Savonarola died, Leonardo da Vinci was 46, Michelangelo was 23, Martin Luther was 14, Christopher Columbus was 46 or 47 and Niccolò Machiavelli was 29.

Born during Girolamo Savonarola’s lifetime: Michelangelo, Martin Luther, Niccolò Machiavelli, Nicolaus Copernicus, Ferdinand Magellan, Raphael, Albrecht Dürer and Vasco da Gama.

Not quite contemporaries: John Calvin was born about 11 years after Girolamo Savonarola died, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor was born about 2 years after Girolamo Savonarola died, Nostradamus was born about 5 years after Girolamo Savonarola died and Anne Boleyn was born about 3 years after Girolamo Savonarola died.

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The 121 best-known contemporaries

121 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Girolamo Savonarola. All of them 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. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  16. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  17. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  18. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  19. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  20. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  21. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  22. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  23. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  24. Donatello c. 1386 – 1466
  25. Babur 1483 – 1530
  26. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  27. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  28. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  29. Pope Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  30. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  31. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  32. François Villon 1431 – 1463
  33. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  34. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  35. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  36. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  37. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  38. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  39. Vlad the Impaler c. 1430 – c. 1477
  40. Pope Pius II 1405 – 1464
  41. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  42. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  43. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  44. Leon Battista Alberti 1404 – 1472
  45. Richard III of England 1452 – 1485
  46. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  47. Pope Callixtus III 1379 – 1458
  48. Jami 1414 – 1492
  49. Lorenzo de' Medici 1449 – 1492
  50. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  51. Pope Nicholas V c. 1397 – 1455
  52. Louis XI 1423 – 1483
  53. Skanderbeg 1405 – 1468
  54. Pope Sixtus IV 1414 – 1484
  55. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  56. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  57. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  58. Nicholas of Cusa 1401 – 1464
  59. Pope Innocent VIII 1432 – 1492
  60. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  61. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  62. Pope Paul II 1417 – 1471
  63. Bartolomeu Dias c. 1467 – 1500
  64. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  65. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  66. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  67. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  68. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  69. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  70. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  71. Thomas à Kempis c. 1381 – 1471
  72. Charles VII of France 1403 – 1461
  73. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  74. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  75. Fra Angelico c. 1396 – 1455
  76. Edward IV 1442 – 1483
  77. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 1463 – 1494
  78. Charles VIII of France 1470 – 1498
  79. Constantine XI Palaiologos 1404 – 1453
  80. Henry VI of England 1421 – 1471
  81. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  82. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  83. Matthias Corvinus 1443 – 1490
  84. Domenico Ghirlandaio 1448 – 1494
  85. Marsilio Ficino 1433 – 1499
  86. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  87. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  88. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  89. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  90. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  91. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  92. Ali-Shir Nava'i 1441 – 1501
  93. John Cabot c. 1450 – c. 1498
  94. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  95. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  96. Piero della Francesca 1415 – 1492
  97. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  98. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  99. Prince Henry the Navigator 1394 – 1460
  100. Giorgione 1478 – 1510
  101. Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor 1415 – 1493
  102. Andrea del Verrocchio c. 1435 – 1488
  103. Charles the Bold 1433 – 1477
  104. Pietro Perugino 1448 – 1523
  105. Cesare Borgia 1475 – 1507
  106. Juan Sebastián Elcano c. 1486 – 1526
  107. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486 – 1534
  108. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556
  109. Juan Ponce de León 1460 – 1521
  110. Manuel I of Portugal 1469 – 1521
  111. Georgius Agricola 1494 – 1555
  112. Piri Reis c. 1470 – c. 1554
  113. Cosimo de' Medici 1389 – 1464
  114. Rogier van der Weyden c. 1396 – 1464
  115. Christian I of Denmark 1426 – 1481
  116. Vasco Núñez de Balboa c. 1475 – 1519
  117. James IV 1473 – 1513
  118. Baldassare Castiglione 1478 – 1529
  119. Vasili III of Russia 1479 – 1533
  120. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 1486 – 1535
  121. Lorenzo Valla 1407 – 1457