Who Was Alive
John Cabot
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John Cabot

Venetian sailor

Born c. 1450 · died c. 1498
Also known as Giovanni Cabot, Giovanni Chabotto, Zuan Chabotto

Who was alive at the same time as John Cabot?

  1. Johannes Gutenberg, c. 1400 – 1468
  2. Mehmed II, 1432 – 1481
  3. Sandro Botticelli, c. 1445 – 1510
  4. John Cabot, c. 1450 – c. 1498
  5. Christopher Columbus, 1451 – 1506
  6. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  7. Amerigo Vespucci, 1454 – 1512
  8. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  9. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  10. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  11. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  12. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  13. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  14. Thomas More, c. 1478 – 1535
  15. Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1480 – 1521
  16. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  17. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  18. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  19. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  20. Titian, c. 1490 – 1576
  21. Henry VIII, 1491 – 1547
  22. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  23. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  24. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566

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Born during John Cabot’s lifetime: Michelangelo, Martin Luther, Niccolò Machiavelli, Nicolaus Copernicus, Ferdinand Magellan, Raphael, Albrecht Dürer and Vasco da Gama.

Not quite contemporaries: Zheng He died about 12 years before John Cabot was born, John Calvin was born about 8 years after John Cabot died, Nostradamus was born about 2 years after John Cabot died and Teresa of Ávila was born about 14 years after John Cabot died.

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The 117 best-known contemporaries

117 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as John Cabot. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1475.

  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. Johannes Gutenberg c. 1400 – 1468
  12. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  13. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  14. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  15. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  16. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  17. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  18. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  19. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  20. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  21. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  22. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  23. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  24. Donatello c. 1386 – 1466
  25. Babur 1483 – 1530
  26. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  27. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  28. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  29. Pope Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  30. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  31. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  32. François Villon 1431 – 1463
  33. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  34. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  35. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  36. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  37. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  38. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  39. Vlad the Impaler c. 1430 – c. 1477
  40. Pope Pius II 1405 – 1464
  41. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  42. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  43. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  44. Leon Battista Alberti 1404 – 1472
  45. Richard III of England 1452 – 1485
  46. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  47. Pope Callixtus III 1379 – 1458
  48. Jami 1414 – 1492
  49. Lorenzo de' Medici 1449 – 1492
  50. Girolamo Savonarola 1452 – 1498
  51. Pope Nicholas V c. 1397 – 1455
  52. Louis XI 1423 – 1483
  53. Skanderbeg 1405 – 1468
  54. Pope Sixtus IV 1414 – 1484
  55. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  56. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  57. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  58. Nicholas of Cusa 1401 – 1464
  59. Pope Innocent VIII 1432 – 1492
  60. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  61. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  62. Pope Paul II 1417 – 1471
  63. Bartolomeu Dias c. 1467 – 1500
  64. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  65. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  66. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  67. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  68. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  69. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  70. Thomas à Kempis c. 1381 – 1471
  71. Charles VII of France 1403 – 1461
  72. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  73. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  74. Fra Angelico c. 1396 – 1455
  75. Edward IV 1442 – 1483
  76. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 1463 – 1494
  77. Charles VIII of France 1470 – 1498
  78. Constantine XI Palaiologos 1404 – 1453
  79. Henry VI of England 1421 – 1471
  80. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  81. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  82. Matthias Corvinus 1443 – 1490
  83. Domenico Ghirlandaio 1448 – 1494
  84. Marsilio Ficino 1433 – 1499
  85. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  86. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  87. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  88. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  89. Ali-Shir Nava'i 1441 – 1501
  90. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  91. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  92. Piero della Francesca 1415 – 1492
  93. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  94. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  95. Prince Henry the Navigator 1394 – 1460
  96. Giorgione 1478 – 1510
  97. Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor 1415 – 1493
  98. Andrea del Verrocchio c. 1435 – 1488
  99. Charles the Bold 1433 – 1477
  100. Pietro Perugino 1448 – 1523
  101. Cesare Borgia 1475 – 1507
  102. Juan Sebastián Elcano c. 1486 – 1526
  103. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486 – 1534
  104. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556
  105. Juan Ponce de León 1460 – 1521
  106. Manuel I of Portugal 1469 – 1521
  107. Georgius Agricola 1494 – 1555
  108. Piri Reis c. 1470 – c. 1554
  109. Cosimo de' Medici 1389 – 1464
  110. Rogier van der Weyden c. 1396 – 1464
  111. Christian I of Denmark 1426 – 1481
  112. Vasco Núñez de Balboa c. 1475 – 1519
  113. James IV 1473 – 1513
  114. Baldassare Castiglione 1478 – 1529
  115. Vasili III of Russia 1479 – 1533
  116. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 1486 – 1535
  117. Lorenzo Valla 1407 – 1457