Who Was Alive
Humayun
c.1650, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Humayun

Mughal emperor

Born 1508 · died 27 January 1556, aged 47
Also known as Nasir ud-Din Muhammad, Naser al-Din Muhammad, Nāṣer-al-Din Moḥammad

Who was alive at the same time as Humayun?

  1. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  2. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  3. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  4. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  5. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  6. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  7. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  8. Thomas More, c. 1478 – 1535
  9. Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1480 – 1521
  10. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  11. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  12. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  13. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  14. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  15. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  16. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  17. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500 – 1558
  18. Humayun, 1508 – 1556
  19. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564
  20. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  21. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  22. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  23. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  24. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600

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When Humayun was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 55, Michelangelo was 32 or 33, Martin Luther was 24, Niccolò Machiavelli was 38 and Nicolaus Copernicus was 35.

When Humayun died, Michelangelo was 80, Elizabeth I was 22, Akbar was 13, Jacques Cartier was 64 and Suleiman the Magnificent was 61.

Born during Humayun’s lifetime: Miguel de Cervantes, Elizabeth I, Akbar, Giordano Bruno, Michel de Montaigne, John Calvin, Tycho Brahe and Francis Drake.

Not quite contemporaries: William Shakespeare was born about 8 years after Humayun died, Galileo Galilei was born about 8 years after Humayun died, Christopher Columbus died about 2 years before Humayun was born and Francis Bacon was born about 5 years after Humayun died.

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Where Humayun’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

163 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Humayun. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1532.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1519
  2. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  3. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  4. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  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. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  18. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  19. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  20. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  21. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  22. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  23. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  24. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  25. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  26. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  27. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  28. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  29. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  30. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  31. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  32. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  33. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  34. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  35. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  36. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  37. Babur 1483 – 1530
  38. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  39. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  40. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  41. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  42. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  43. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  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. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  64. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  65. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  66. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  67. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  68. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  69. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  70. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  71. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  72. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  73. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  74. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  75. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  76. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  77. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  78. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  79. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  80. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  81. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  82. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  83. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  84. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  85. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  86. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  87. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  88. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  89. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  90. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  91. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  92. Lady Jane Grey 1537 – 1554
  93. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  94. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  95. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  96. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  97. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  98. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  99. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  100. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  101. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  102. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  103. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  104. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  105. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  106. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  107. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  108. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  109. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  110. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  111. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  112. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  113. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  114. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  115. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  116. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  117. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  118. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  119. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  120. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  121. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  122. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  123. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  124. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  125. Francis II of France 1544 – 1560
  126. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  127. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  128. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  129. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  130. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  131. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  132. James V 1512 – 1542
  133. Giorgione 1478 – 1510
  134. Michael Servetus 1511 – 1553
  135. Catherine Howard 1524 – 1542
  136. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  137. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  138. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593
  139. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598
  140. Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor 1527 – 1576
  141. Pietro Perugino 1448 – 1523
  142. Anne of Cleves 1515 – 1557
  143. Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 – 1625
  144. Juan Sebastián Elcano c. 1486 – 1526
  145. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486 – 1534
  146. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556
  147. Bronzino 1503 – 1572
  148. Matteo Ricci 1552 – 1610
  149. Juan Ponce de León 1460 – 1521
  150. Manuel I of Portugal 1469 – 1521