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Joseph of Anchieta
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Joseph of Anchieta

Spanish missionary

Born 19 March 1534 · died 9 June 1597, aged 63
Also known as Padre José de Anchieta, Anchieta

Who was alive at the same time as Joseph of Anchieta?

  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. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  13. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  14. Joseph of Anchieta, 1534 – 1597
  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 Joseph of Anchieta was born, Michelangelo was 59, Martin Luther was 50, Nicolaus Copernicus was 61, Elizabeth I was under a year old and Hernán Cortés was 48 or 49.

When Joseph of Anchieta died, William Shakespeare was 33, Galileo Galilei was 33, René Descartes was 1, Elizabeth I was 63 and Francis Bacon was 36.

Born during Joseph of Anchieta’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, René Descartes, Miguel de Cervantes, Francis Bacon, Johannes Kepler, Peter Paul Rubens and Akbar.

Not quite contemporaries: Leonardo da Vinci died about 15 years before Joseph of Anchieta was born, Niccolò Machiavelli died about 7 years before Joseph of Anchieta was born, Rembrandt was born about 9 years after Joseph of Anchieta died and Ferdinand Magellan died about 13 years before Joseph of Anchieta was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

176 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Joseph of Anchieta. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1566.

  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. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  50. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  51. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  52. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  53. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  54. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  55. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  56. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  57. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  58. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  59. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  60. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  61. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  62. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  63. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  64. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  65. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  66. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  67. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  68. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  69. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  70. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  71. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  72. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  73. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  74. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  75. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  76. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  77. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  78. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  79. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  80. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  81. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  82. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  83. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  84. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  85. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  86. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  87. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  88. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  89. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  90. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  91. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  92. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  93. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  94. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  95. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  96. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  97. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  98. Lady Jane Grey 1537 – 1554
  99. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  100. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  101. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  102. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  103. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  104. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  105. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  106. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  107. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  108. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  109. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  110. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  111. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  112. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  113. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  114. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  115. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  116. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  117. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  118. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  119. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  120. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  121. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  122. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  123. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  124. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  125. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  126. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  127. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  128. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  129. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  130. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  131. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  132. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  133. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  134. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  135. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  136. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  137. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  138. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  139. Francis II of France 1544 – 1560
  140. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  141. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  142. Mumtaz Mahal 1593 – 1631
  143. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  144. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  145. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  146. James V 1512 – 1542
  147. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  148. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  149. Michael Servetus 1511 – 1553
  150. Catherine Howard 1524 – 1542