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Hans Holbein the Younger
Hans Holbein the Younger, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Hans Holbein the Younger

German artist and printmaker

Born 1497 · died 29 November 1543, aged 45 or 46
Also known as Orbens, the younger Hans Holbein, Hans Ubeno

Who was alive at the same time as Hans Holbein the Younger?

  1. Christopher Columbus, 1451 – 1506
  2. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  3. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  4. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  6. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  7. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  8. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  9. Thomas More, c. 1478 – 1535
  10. Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1480 – 1521
  11. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  12. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  13. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  14. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  15. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  16. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  17. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  18. Hans Holbein the Younger, 1497 – 1543
  19. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500 – 1558
  20. Nostradamus, 1503 – 1566
  21. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564
  22. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  23. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  24. Akbar, 1542 – 1605

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When Hans Holbein the Younger was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 44 or 45, Michelangelo was 21 or 22, Martin Luther was 13 or 14, Christopher Columbus was 45 or 46 and Niccolò Machiavelli was 27 or 28.

When Hans Holbein the Younger died, Michelangelo was 68, Martin Luther was 60, Elizabeth I was 10, Hernán Cortés was 57 or 58 and Akbar was 1.

Born during Hans Holbein the Younger’s lifetime: Elizabeth I, Akbar, Michel de Montaigne, John Calvin, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, Nostradamus, Francis Drake and Ivan the Terrible.

Not quite contemporaries: Miguel de Cervantes was born about 2 years after Hans Holbein the Younger died, Giordano Bruno was born about 5 years after Hans Holbein the Younger died, Tycho Brahe was born about 3 years after Hans Holbein the Younger died and Henry IV of France was born about 10 years after Hans Holbein the Younger died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

152 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Hans Holbein the Younger. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1521.

  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. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  10. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  11. Vasco da Gama c. 1464 – 1524
  12. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  13. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  14. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  15. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  16. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  17. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  18. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  19. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  20. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  21. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  22. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  23. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  24. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  25. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  26. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  27. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  28. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  29. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  30. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  31. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  32. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  33. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  34. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  35. Babur 1483 – 1530
  36. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  37. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  38. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  39. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  40. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  41. Pope Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  42. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  43. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  44. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  45. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  46. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  47. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  48. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  49. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  50. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  51. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  52. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  53. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  54. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  55. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  56. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  57. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  58. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  59. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  60. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  61. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  62. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  63. Girolamo Savonarola 1452 – 1498
  64. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  65. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  66. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  67. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  68. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  69. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  70. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  71. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  72. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  73. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  74. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  75. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  76. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  77. Bartolomeu Dias c. 1467 – 1500
  78. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  79. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  80. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  81. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  82. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  83. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  84. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  85. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  86. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  87. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  88. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  89. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  90. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  91. Lady Jane Grey 1537 – 1554
  92. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  93. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  94. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  95. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  96. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  97. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  98. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  99. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  100. Charles VIII of France 1470 – 1498
  101. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  102. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  103. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  104. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  105. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  106. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  107. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  108. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  109. Marsilio Ficino 1433 – 1499
  110. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  111. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  112. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  113. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  114. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  115. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  116. Ali-Shir Nava'i 1441 – 1501
  117. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  118. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  119. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  120. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  121. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  122. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  123. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  124. James V 1512 – 1542
  125. Giorgione 1478 – 1510
  126. Michael Servetus 1511 – 1553
  127. Catherine Howard 1524 – 1542
  128. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  129. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  130. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593
  131. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598
  132. Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor 1527 – 1576
  133. Pietro Perugino 1448 – 1523
  134. Cesare Borgia 1475 – 1507
  135. Anne of Cleves 1515 – 1557
  136. Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 – 1625
  137. Juan Sebastián Elcano c. 1486 – 1526
  138. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486 – 1534
  139. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556
  140. Bronzino 1503 – 1572
  141. Juan Ponce de León 1460 – 1521
  142. Manuel I of Portugal 1469 – 1521
  143. Georgius Agricola 1494 – 1555
  144. Jane Seymour 1508 – 1537
  145. Piri Reis c. 1470 – c. 1554
  146. Vasco Núñez de Balboa c. 1475 – 1519
  147. James IV 1473 – 1513
  148. Baldassare Castiglione 1478 – 1529
  149. Vasili III of Russia 1479 – 1533
  150. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 1486 – 1535