Who Was Alive

Guru Nanak

First Sikh Guru and founder of Sikhism

Born 15 April 1469 · died 22 September 1539, aged 70

Who was alive at the same time as Guru Nanak?

  1. Mehmed II
  2. Christopher Columbus
  3. Leonardo da Vinci
  4. Vasco da Gama
  5. Erasmus
  6. Guru Nanak
  7. Niccolò Machiavelli
  8. Albrecht Dürer
  9. Nicolaus Copernicus
  10. Michelangelo
  11. Thomas More
  12. Ferdinand Magellan
  13. Raphael
  14. Martin Luther
  15. Hernán Cortés
  16. Mimar Sinan
  17. Jacques Cartier
  18. François Rabelais
  19. Suleiman the Magnificent
  20. Charles V
  21. Nostradamus
  22. John Calvin
  23. Michel de Montaigne
  24. Elizabeth I of England
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Guru Nanak was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 17, Christopher Columbus was 17 or 18, Erasmus was 2, Mehmed II was 37 and Amerigo Vespucci was 15.

When Guru Nanak died, Michelangelo was 64, Martin Luther was 55, Nicolaus Copernicus was 66, Elizabeth I of England was 6 and Hernán Cortés was 53 or 54.

Born during Guru Nanak’s lifetime: Michelangelo, Martin Luther, Niccolò Machiavelli, Nicolaus Copernicus, Ferdinand Magellan, Raphael, Albrecht Dürer and Elizabeth I of England.

Not quite contemporaries: Miguel de Cervantes was born 6 years after Guru Nanak died, Johannes Gutenberg died months before Guru Nanak was born, Akbar was born 3 years after Guru Nanak died and Giordano Bruno was born 9 years after Guru Nanak died.

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All 53 contemporaries we track

  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. Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603
  11. Vasco da Gama 1457–1469 – 1524
  12. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  13. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  14. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  15. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  16. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  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 1500 – 1558
  22. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  23. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  24. Henry VIII of England 1491 – 1547
  25. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  26. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  27. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  28. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  29. Luís de Camões 1524–1525 – 1580
  30. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  31. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  32. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  33. Babur 1483 – 1530
  34. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  35. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  36. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  37. Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  38. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  39. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  40. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  41. Julius II 1443 – 1513
  42. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  43. Edward VI of England 1537 – 1553
  44. Leo X 1475 – 1521
  45. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  46. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  47. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  48. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  49. Pieter Brueghel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  50. Vlad the Impaler 1428–1431 – 1476–1477
  51. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  52. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  53. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541