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Hernando de Soto
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Hernando de Soto

Spanish explorer and conquistador

Born c. 1500 · died 21 May 1542

Who was alive at the same time as Hernando de Soto?

  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. Henry VIII, 1491 – 1547
  16. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  17. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  18. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  19. Hernando de Soto, c. 1500 – 1542
  20. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500 – 1558
  21. Nostradamus, 1503 – 1566
  22. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564
  23. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  24. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603

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When Hernando de Soto died, Michelangelo was 67, Martin Luther was 58, Nicolaus Copernicus was 69, Elizabeth I was 8 and Hernán Cortés was 56 or 57.

Born during Hernando de Soto’s lifetime: Elizabeth I, Michel de Montaigne, John Calvin, Nostradamus, Ivan the Terrible, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, El Greco and Luís de Camões.

Not quite contemporaries: Miguel de Cervantes was born about 3 years after Hernando de Soto died, Akbar was born months after Hernando de Soto died, Giordano Bruno was born about 6 years after Hernando de Soto died and Tycho Brahe was born about 4 years after Hernando de Soto died.

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The 142 best-known contemporaries

142 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Hernando de Soto. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1523.

  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. 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, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  22. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  23. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  24. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  25. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  26. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  27. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  28. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  29. Luís de Camões c. 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. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  35. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  36. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  37. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  38. Pope Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  39. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  40. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  41. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  42. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  43. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  44. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  45. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  46. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  47. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  48. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  49. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  50. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  51. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  52. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  53. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  54. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  55. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  56. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  57. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  58. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  59. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  60. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  61. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  62. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  63. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  64. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  65. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  66. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  67. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  68. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  69. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  70. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  71. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  72. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  73. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  74. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  75. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  76. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  77. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  78. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  79. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  80. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  81. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  82. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  83. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  84. Lady Jane Grey 1537 – 1554
  85. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  86. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  87. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  88. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  89. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  90. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  91. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  92. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  93. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  94. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  95. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  96. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  97. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  98. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  99. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  100. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  101. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  102. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  103. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  104. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  105. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  106. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  107. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  108. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  109. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  110. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  111. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  112. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  113. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  114. James V 1512 – 1542
  115. Giorgione 1478 – 1510
  116. Michael Servetus 1511 – 1553
  117. Catherine Howard 1524 – 1542
  118. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  119. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  120. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593
  121. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598
  122. Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor 1527 – 1576
  123. Pietro Perugino 1448 – 1523
  124. Cesare Borgia 1475 – 1507
  125. Anne of Cleves 1515 – 1557
  126. Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 – 1625
  127. Juan Sebastián Elcano c. 1486 – 1526
  128. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486 – 1534
  129. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556
  130. Bronzino 1503 – 1572
  131. Juan Ponce de León 1460 – 1521
  132. Manuel I of Portugal 1469 – 1521
  133. Georgius Agricola 1494 – 1555
  134. Jane Seymour 1508 – 1537
  135. Piri Reis c. 1470 – c. 1554
  136. Vasco Núñez de Balboa c. 1475 – 1519
  137. James IV 1473 – 1513
  138. Baldassare Castiglione 1478 – 1529
  139. Vasili III of Russia 1479 – 1533
  140. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 1486 – 1535
  141. Jean Bodin 1530 – 1596
  142. Joseph of Anchieta 1534 – 1597