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Jean Bodin
François Stuerhelt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Jean Bodin

French philosopher and historian

Born 1530 · died 7 June 1596, aged 65 or 66
Also known as I. B., Johann Bodin, John Bodin

Who was alive at the same time as Jean Bodin?

  1. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  2. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  3. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  4. Thomas More, c. 1478 – 1535
  5. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  6. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  7. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  8. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  9. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  10. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  11. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564
  12. Jean Bodin, 1530 – 1596
  13. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  14. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  15. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  16. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  17. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  18. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  19. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  20. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  21. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  22. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  23. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  24. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650

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When Jean Bodin was born, Michelangelo was 54 or 55, Martin Luther was 46 or 47, Nicolaus Copernicus was 56 or 57, Jacques Cartier was 38 or 39 and Erasmus was 63 or 64.

When Jean Bodin died, William Shakespeare was 32, Galileo Galilei was 32, René Descartes was under a year old, Elizabeth I was 62 and Francis Bacon was 35.

Born during Jean Bodin’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, René Descartes, Miguel de Cervantes, Elizabeth I, Francis Bacon, Johannes Kepler and Peter Paul Rubens.

Not quite contemporaries: Leonardo da Vinci died about 11 years before Jean Bodin was born, Niccolò Machiavelli died about 3 years before Jean Bodin was born, Rembrandt was born about 10 years after Jean Bodin died and Ferdinand Magellan died about 9 years before Jean Bodin was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

180 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Jean Bodin. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1564.

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  4. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  5. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  6. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  7. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  8. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  9. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  10. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  11. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  12. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  13. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  14. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  15. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  16. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  17. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  18. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  19. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  20. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  21. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  22. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  23. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  24. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  25. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  26. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  27. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  28. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  29. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  30. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  31. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  32. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  33. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  34. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  35. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  36. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  37. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  38. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  39. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  40. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  41. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  42. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  43. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  44. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  45. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  46. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  47. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  48. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  49. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  50. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  51. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  52. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  53. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  54. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  55. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  56. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  57. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  58. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  59. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  60. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  61. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  62. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  63. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  64. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  65. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  66. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  67. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  68. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  69. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  70. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  71. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  72. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  73. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  74. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  75. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  76. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  77. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  78. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  79. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  80. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  81. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  82. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  83. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  84. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  85. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  86. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  87. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  88. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  89. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  90. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  91. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  92. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  93. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  94. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  95. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  96. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  97. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  98. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  99. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  100. Lady Jane Grey 1537 – 1554
  101. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  102. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  103. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  104. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  105. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  106. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  107. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  108. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  109. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  110. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  111. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  112. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  113. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  114. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  115. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  116. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  117. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  118. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  119. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  120. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  121. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  122. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  123. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  124. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  125. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  126. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  127. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  128. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  129. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  130. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  131. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  132. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  133. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  134. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  135. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  136. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  137. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  138. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  139. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  140. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  141. Francis II of France 1544 – 1560
  142. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  143. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  144. Mumtaz Mahal 1593 – 1631
  145. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  146. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  147. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  148. James V 1512 – 1542
  149. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  150. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652