Who Was Alive
Hayreddin Barbarossa
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Hayreddin Barbarossa

Ottoman admiral

Born c. 1478 · died 4 July 1546
Also known as Khair-Eddin Barbarossa, Khayr al-Din

Who was alive at the same time as Hayreddin Barbarossa?

  1. Mehmed II, 1432 – 1481
  2. Christopher Columbus, 1451 – 1506
  3. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  4. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  5. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  6. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  7. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  8. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  9. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  10. Hayreddin Barbarossa, c. 1478 – 1546
  11. Thomas More, c. 1478 – 1535
  12. Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1480 – 1521
  13. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  14. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  15. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  16. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  17. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  18. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  19. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  20. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500 – 1558
  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 Hayreddin Barbarossa died, Michelangelo was 71, Elizabeth I was 12, Hernán Cortés was 60 or 61, Akbar was 3 and Jacques Cartier was 54.

Born during Hayreddin Barbarossa’s lifetime: Martin Luther, Raphael, Elizabeth I, Hernán Cortés, Akbar, Jacques Cartier, Suleiman the Magnificent and Michel de Montaigne.

Not quite contemporaries: Francis Bacon was born about 15 years after Hayreddin Barbarossa died, Johannes Gutenberg died about 7 years before Hayreddin Barbarossa was born, Giordano Bruno was born about 2 years after Hayreddin Barbarossa died and Tycho Brahe was born months after Hayreddin Barbarossa died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

172 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Hayreddin Barbarossa. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1514.

  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. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  24. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  25. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  26. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  27. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  28. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  29. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  30. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  31. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  32. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  33. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  34. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  35. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  36. Babur 1483 – 1530
  37. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  38. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  39. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  40. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  41. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  42. Pope Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  43. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  44. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  45. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  46. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  47. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  48. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  49. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  50. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  51. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  52. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  53. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  54. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  55. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  56. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  57. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  58. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  59. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  60. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  61. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  62. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  63. Richard III of England 1452 – 1485
  64. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  65. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  66. Jami 1414 – 1492
  67. Lorenzo de' Medici 1449 – 1492
  68. Girolamo Savonarola 1452 – 1498
  69. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  70. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  71. Louis XI 1423 – 1483
  72. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  73. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  74. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  75. Pope Sixtus IV 1414 – 1484
  76. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  77. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  78. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  79. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  80. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  81. Pope Innocent VIII 1432 – 1492
  82. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  83. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  84. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  85. Bartolomeu Dias c. 1467 – 1500
  86. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  87. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  88. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  89. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  90. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  91. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  92. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  93. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  94. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  95. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  96. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  97. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  98. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  99. Lady Jane Grey 1537 – 1554
  100. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  101. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  102. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  103. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  104. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  105. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  106. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  107. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  108. Edward IV 1442 – 1483
  109. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 1463 – 1494
  110. Charles VIII of France 1470 – 1498
  111. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  112. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  113. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  114. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  115. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  116. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  117. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  118. Matthias Corvinus 1443 – 1490
  119. Domenico Ghirlandaio 1448 – 1494
  120. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  121. Marsilio Ficino 1433 – 1499
  122. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  123. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  124. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  125. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  126. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  127. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  128. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  129. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  130. Ali-Shir Nava'i 1441 – 1501
  131. John Cabot c. 1450 – c. 1498
  132. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  133. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  134. Francis II of France 1544 – 1560
  135. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  136. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  137. Piero della Francesca 1415 – 1492
  138. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  139. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  140. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  141. James V 1512 – 1542
  142. Giorgione 1478 – 1510
  143. Michael Servetus 1511 – 1553
  144. Catherine Howard 1524 – 1542
  145. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  146. Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor 1415 – 1493
  147. Andrea del Verrocchio c. 1435 – 1488
  148. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  149. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593
  150. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598