Who Was Alive
James V
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James V

Monarch of Scotland

Born 10 April 1512 · died 14 December 1542, aged 30
Also known as James V of Scotland, James Stewart, Goodman of Ballengeich

Who was alive at the same time as James V?

  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. Henry VIII, 1491 – 1547
  15. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  16. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  17. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  18. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500 – 1558
  19. Nostradamus, 1503 – 1566
  20. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564
  21. James V, 1512 – 1542
  22. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  23. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  24. Akbar, 1542 – 1605

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When James V was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 59, Michelangelo was 37, Martin Luther was 28, Niccolò Machiavelli was 42 and Nicolaus Copernicus was 39.

When James V died, Michelangelo was 67, Martin Luther was 59, Nicolaus Copernicus was 69, Elizabeth I was 9 and Hernán Cortés was 56 or 57.

Born during James V’s lifetime: Elizabeth I, Akbar, Michel de Montaigne, Ivan the Terrible, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, El Greco, Luís de Camões and Philip II of Spain.

Not quite contemporaries: Miguel de Cervantes was born about 3 years after James V died, Christopher Columbus died about 6 years before James V was born, Giordano Bruno was born about 6 years after James V died and Tycho Brahe was born about 4 years after James V died.

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Where James V’s contemporaries were born

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The 134 best-known contemporaries

134 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as James V. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1527.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1519
  2. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  3. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  4. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  5. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  6. Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480 – 1521
  7. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  8. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  9. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  10. Vasco da Gama c. 1464 – 1524
  11. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  12. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  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. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  27. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  28. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  29. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  30. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  31. Babur 1483 – 1530
  32. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  33. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  34. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  35. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  36. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  37. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  38. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  39. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  40. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  41. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  42. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  43. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  44. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  45. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  46. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  47. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  48. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  49. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  50. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  51. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  52. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  53. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  54. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  55. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  56. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  57. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  58. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  59. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  60. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  61. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  62. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  63. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  64. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  65. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  66. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  67. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  68. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  69. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  70. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  71. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  72. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  73. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  74. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  75. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  76. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  77. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  78. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  79. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  80. Lady Jane Grey 1537 – 1554
  81. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  82. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  83. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  84. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  85. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  86. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  87. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  88. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  89. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  90. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  91. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  92. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  93. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  94. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  95. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  96. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  97. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  98. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  99. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  100. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  101. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  102. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  103. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  104. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  105. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  106. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  107. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  108. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  109. Michael Servetus 1511 – 1553
  110. Catherine Howard 1524 – 1542
  111. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  112. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  113. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593
  114. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598
  115. Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor 1527 – 1576
  116. Pietro Perugino 1448 – 1523
  117. Anne of Cleves 1515 – 1557
  118. Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 – 1625
  119. Juan Sebastián Elcano c. 1486 – 1526
  120. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486 – 1534
  121. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556
  122. Bronzino 1503 – 1572
  123. Juan Ponce de León 1460 – 1521
  124. Manuel I of Portugal 1469 – 1521
  125. Georgius Agricola 1494 – 1555
  126. Jane Seymour 1508 – 1537
  127. Piri Reis c. 1470 – c. 1554
  128. Vasco Núñez de Balboa c. 1475 – 1519
  129. James IV 1473 – 1513
  130. Baldassare Castiglione 1478 – 1529
  131. Vasili III of Russia 1479 – 1533
  132. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 1486 – 1535
  133. Jean Bodin 1530 – 1596
  134. Joseph of Anchieta 1534 – 1597