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Joachim du Bellay
Jean Cousin le Jeune., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Joachim du Bellay

French writer and literary critic

Born 1522 · died 1 January 1560, aged 37 or 38
Also known as Du Bellay

Who was alive at the same time as Joachim du Bellay?

  1. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  2. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  3. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  4. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  5. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  6. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  7. Thomas More, c. 1478 – 1535
  8. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  9. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  10. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  11. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  12. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  13. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  14. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500 – 1558
  15. Nostradamus, 1503 – 1566
  16. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564
  17. Joachim du Bellay, 1522 – 1560
  18. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  19. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  20. Francis Drake, c. 1540 – 1596
  21. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  22. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  23. Tycho Brahe, 1546 – 1601
  24. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600

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When Joachim du Bellay was born, Martin Luther was 38 or 39, Michelangelo was 46 or 47, Niccolò Machiavelli was 52 or 53, Nicolaus Copernicus was 48 or 49 and Albrecht Dürer was 50 or 51.

When Joachim du Bellay died, Michelangelo was 84, Elizabeth I was 26, Akbar was 17, Suleiman the Magnificent was 65 and Giordano Bruno was 11 or 12.

Born during Joachim du Bellay’s lifetime: Miguel de Cervantes, Elizabeth I, Akbar, Giordano Bruno, Michel de Montaigne, Tycho Brahe, Francis Drake and Ivan the Terrible.

Not quite contemporaries: William Shakespeare was born about 4 years after Joachim du Bellay died, Leonardo da Vinci died about 3 years before Joachim du Bellay was born, Galileo Galilei was born about 4 years after Joachim du Bellay died and Ferdinand Magellan died about a year before Joachim du Bellay was born.

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The 141 best-known contemporaries

141 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Joachim du Bellay. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1542.

  1. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  2. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  3. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  4. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  5. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  6. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  7. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  8. Vasco da Gama c. 1464 – 1524
  9. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  10. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  11. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  12. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  13. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  14. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  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. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  22. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  23. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  24. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  25. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  26. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  27. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  28. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  29. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  30. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  31. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  32. Babur 1483 – 1530
  33. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  34. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  35. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  36. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  37. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  38. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  39. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  40. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  41. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  42. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  43. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  44. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  45. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  46. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  47. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  48. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  49. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  50. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  51. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  52. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  53. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  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. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  61. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  62. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  63. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  64. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  65. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  66. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  67. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  68. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  69. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  70. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  71. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  72. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  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. Lady Jane Grey 1537 – 1554
  80. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  81. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  82. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  83. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  84. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  85. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  86. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  87. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  88. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  89. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  90. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  91. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  92. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  93. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  94. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  95. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  96. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  97. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  98. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  99. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  100. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  101. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  102. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  103. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  104. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  105. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  106. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  107. Francis II of France 1544 – 1560
  108. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  109. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  110. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  111. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  112. James V 1512 – 1542
  113. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  114. Michael Servetus 1511 – 1553
  115. Catherine Howard 1524 – 1542
  116. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  117. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593
  118. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598
  119. Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor 1527 – 1576
  120. Pietro Perugino 1448 – 1523
  121. Juan Sebastián Elcano c. 1486 – 1526
  122. Anne of Cleves 1515 – 1557
  123. Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 – 1625
  124. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486 – 1534
  125. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556
  126. Bronzino 1503 – 1572
  127. Matteo Ricci 1552 – 1610
  128. Feodor I of Russia 1557 – 1598
  129. Georgius Agricola 1494 – 1555
  130. Jane Seymour 1508 – 1537
  131. Piri Reis c. 1470 – c. 1554
  132. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 1486 – 1535
  133. Charles IX of Sweden 1550 – 1611
  134. Baldassare Castiglione 1478 – 1529
  135. Vasili III of Russia 1479 – 1533
  136. Mirabai c. 1501 – c. 1549
  137. Jean Bodin 1530 – 1596
  138. Joseph of Anchieta 1534 – 1597
  139. Tomás Luis de Victoria c. 1548 – 1611
  140. Philip Sidney 1554 – 1586
  141. Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor 1557 – 1619