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Ismail I
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Ismail I

Safavid governor

Born 17 July 1487 · died 23 May 1524, aged 36
Also known as Ismail Safavi, Hatayi

Who was alive at the same time as Ismail I?

  1. Sandro Botticelli, c. 1445 – 1510
  2. Christopher Columbus, 1451 – 1506
  3. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  4. Amerigo Vespucci, 1454 – 1512
  5. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  6. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  7. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  8. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  9. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  10. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  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. Ismail I, 1487 – 1524
  17. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  18. Henry VIII, 1491 – 1547
  19. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  20. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  21. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  22. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500 – 1558
  23. Nostradamus, 1503 – 1566
  24. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564

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When Ismail I was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 35, Michelangelo was 12, Martin Luther was 3, Christopher Columbus was 35 or 36 and Niccolò Machiavelli was 18.

When Ismail I died, Michelangelo was 49, Martin Luther was 40, Niccolò Machiavelli was 55, Nicolaus Copernicus was 51 and Albrecht Dürer was 52.

Born during Ismail I’s lifetime: Jacques Cartier, Suleiman the Magnificent, Mimar Sinan, John Calvin, François Rabelais, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, Nostradamus and Henry VIII.

Not quite contemporaries: Elizabeth I was born about 9 years after Ismail I died, Michel de Montaigne was born about 9 years after Ismail I died, Mehmed II died about 6 years before Ismail I was born and Francis Drake was born about 14 years after Ismail I died.

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The 128 best-known contemporaries

128 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Ismail I. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1506.

  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. Vasco da Gama c. 1464 – 1524
  11. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  12. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  13. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  14. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  15. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  16. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  17. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  18. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  19. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  20. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  21. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  22. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  23. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  24. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  25. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  26. Babur 1483 – 1530
  27. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  28. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  29. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  30. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  31. Pope Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  32. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  33. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  34. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  35. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  36. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  37. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  38. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  39. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  40. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  41. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  42. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  43. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  44. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  45. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  46. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  47. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  48. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  49. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  50. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  51. Jami 1414 – 1492
  52. Lorenzo de' Medici 1449 – 1492
  53. Girolamo Savonarola 1452 – 1498
  54. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  55. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  56. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  57. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  58. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  59. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  60. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  61. Pope Innocent VIII 1432 – 1492
  62. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  63. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  64. Bartolomeu Dias c. 1467 – 1500
  65. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  66. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  67. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  68. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  69. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  70. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  71. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  72. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  73. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  74. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  75. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  76. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  77. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  78. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  79. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 1463 – 1494
  80. Charles VIII of France 1470 – 1498
  81. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  82. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  83. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  84. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  85. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  86. Matthias Corvinus 1443 – 1490
  87. Domenico Ghirlandaio 1448 – 1494
  88. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  89. Marsilio Ficino 1433 – 1499
  90. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  91. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  92. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  93. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  94. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  95. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  96. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  97. Ali-Shir Nava'i 1441 – 1501
  98. John Cabot c. 1450 – c. 1498
  99. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  100. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  101. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  102. Piero della Francesca 1415 – 1492
  103. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  104. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  105. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  106. James V 1512 – 1542
  107. Giorgione 1478 – 1510
  108. Michael Servetus 1511 – 1553
  109. Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor 1415 – 1493
  110. Andrea del Verrocchio c. 1435 – 1488
  111. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  112. Pietro Perugino 1448 – 1523
  113. Cesare Borgia 1475 – 1507
  114. Anne of Cleves 1515 – 1557
  115. Juan Sebastián Elcano c. 1486 – 1526
  116. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486 – 1534
  117. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556
  118. Bronzino 1503 – 1572
  119. Juan Ponce de León 1460 – 1521
  120. Manuel I of Portugal 1469 – 1521
  121. Georgius Agricola 1494 – 1555
  122. Jane Seymour 1508 – 1537
  123. Piri Reis c. 1470 – c. 1554
  124. Vasco Núñez de Balboa c. 1475 – 1519
  125. James IV 1473 – 1513
  126. Baldassare Castiglione 1478 – 1529
  127. Vasili III of Russia 1479 – 1533
  128. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 1486 – 1535