Who Was Alive

John Calvin

French Protestant reformer

Born 10 July 1509 · died 27 May 1564, aged 54

Who was alive at the same time as John Calvin?

  1. Leonardo da Vinci
  2. Vasco da Gama
  3. Erasmus
  4. Niccolò Machiavelli
  5. Albrecht Dürer
  6. Nicolaus Copernicus
  7. Michelangelo
  8. Ferdinand Magellan
  9. Raphael
  10. Martin Luther
  11. Hernán Cortés
  12. Mimar Sinan
  13. Jacques Cartier
  14. François Rabelais
  15. Suleiman the Magnificent
  16. John Calvin
  17. Michel de Montaigne
  18. Elizabeth I of England
  19. Akbar
  20. Miguel de Cervantes
  21. Giordano Bruno
  22. Francis Bacon
  23. Galileo Galilei
  24. William Shakespeare
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When John Calvin was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 57, Michelangelo was 34, Martin Luther was 25, Niccolò Machiavelli was 40 and Nicolaus Copernicus was 36.

When John Calvin died, William Shakespeare was under a year old, Galileo Galilei was under a year old, Francis Bacon was 3, Elizabeth I of England was 30 and Akbar was 21.

Born during John Calvin’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, Miguel de Cervantes, Francis Bacon, Elizabeth I of England, Akbar, Giordano Bruno and Michel de Montaigne.

Not quite contemporaries: Christopher Columbus died 3 years before John Calvin was born, Johannes Kepler was born 8 years after John Calvin died, Peter Paul Rubens was born 13 years after John Calvin died and Caravaggio was born 7 years after John Calvin died.

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All 61 contemporaries we track

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1519
  3. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  4. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  5. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  6. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  7. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  8. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  9. Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480 – 1521
  10. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  11. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  12. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  13. Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603
  14. Vasco da Gama 1457–1469 – 1524
  15. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  16. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  17. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  18. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  19. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  20. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  21. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  22. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  23. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  24. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  25. Charles V 1500 – 1558
  26. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  27. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  28. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  29. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  30. Henry VIII of England 1491 – 1547
  31. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  32. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  33. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  34. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  35. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  36. Luís de Camões 1524–1525 – 1580
  37. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  38. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  39. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  40. Babur 1483 – 1530
  41. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  42. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  43. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  44. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  45. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  46. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  47. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  48. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  49. Julius II 1443 – 1513
  50. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  51. Edward VI of England 1537 – 1553
  52. Leo X 1475 – 1521
  53. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  54. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  55. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  56. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  57. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  58. Pieter Brueghel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  59. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  60. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  61. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541