Who Was Alive
Jane Seymour
Hans Holbein the Younger, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Jane Seymour

English lady-in-waiting

Born 1508 · died 24 October 1537, aged 28 or 29
Also known as Seymour Jane

Who was alive at the same time as Jane Seymour?

  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. Jane Seymour, 1508 – 1537
  21. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564
  22. Ivan the Terrible, 1530 – 1584
  23. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  24. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603

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When Jane Seymour was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 55 or 56, Michelangelo was 32 or 33, Martin Luther was 24 or 25, Niccolò Machiavelli was 38 or 39 and Nicolaus Copernicus was 34 or 35.

When Jane Seymour died, Michelangelo was 62, Martin Luther was 53, Nicolaus Copernicus was 64, Elizabeth I was 4 and Hernán Cortés was 51 or 52.

Born during Jane Seymour’s lifetime: Elizabeth I, Michel de Montaigne, John Calvin, Ivan the Terrible, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Luís de Camões, Philip II of Spain and Teresa of Ávila.

Not quite contemporaries: Miguel de Cervantes was born about 8 years after Jane Seymour died, Christopher Columbus died about 2 years before Jane Seymour was born, Akbar was born about 5 years after Jane Seymour died and Giordano Bruno was born about 11 years after Jane Seymour died.

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The 132 best-known contemporaries

132 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Jane Seymour. 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. 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. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  13. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  14. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  15. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  16. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  17. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  18. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  19. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  20. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  21. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  22. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  23. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  24. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  25. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  26. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  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. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  33. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  34. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  35. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  36. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  37. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  38. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  39. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  40. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  41. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  42. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  43. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  44. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  45. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  46. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  47. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  48. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  49. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  50. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  51. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  52. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  53. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  54. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  55. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  56. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  57. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  58. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  59. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  60. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  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. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  72. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  73. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  74. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  75. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  76. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  77. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  78. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  79. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  80. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  81. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  82. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  83. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  84. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  85. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  86. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  87. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  88. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  89. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  90. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  91. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  92. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  93. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  94. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  95. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  96. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  97. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  98. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  99. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  100. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  101. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  102. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  103. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  104. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  105. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  106. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  107. James V 1512 – 1542
  108. Giorgione 1478 – 1510
  109. Michael Servetus 1511 – 1553
  110. Catherine Howard 1524 – 1542
  111. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  112. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593
  113. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598
  114. Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor 1527 – 1576
  115. Pietro Perugino 1448 – 1523
  116. Anne of Cleves 1515 – 1557
  117. Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 – 1625
  118. Juan Sebastián Elcano c. 1486 – 1526
  119. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486 – 1534
  120. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556
  121. Bronzino 1503 – 1572
  122. Juan Ponce de León 1460 – 1521
  123. Manuel I of Portugal 1469 – 1521
  124. Georgius Agricola 1494 – 1555
  125. Piri Reis c. 1470 – c. 1554
  126. Vasco Núñez de Balboa c. 1475 – 1519
  127. James IV 1473 – 1513
  128. Baldassare Castiglione 1478 – 1529
  129. Vasili III of Russia 1479 – 1533
  130. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 1486 – 1535
  131. Jean Bodin 1530 – 1596
  132. Joseph of Anchieta 1534 – 1597