Who Was Alive
Juan Sebastián Elcano
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Juan Sebastián Elcano

Spanish explorer

Born 1484–1488 · died 4 August 1526
Also known as Juan Sebastián de Elcan, Juan Sebastian Elcano, Juan Sebastian de Elcan

Who was alive at the same time as Juan Sebastián Elcano?

  1. Sandro Botticelli, c. 1445 – 1510
  2. Christopher Columbus, 1451 – 1506
  3. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  4. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  5. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  6. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  7. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  8. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  9. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  10. Thomas More, c. 1478 – 1535
  11. Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1480 – 1521
  12. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  13. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  14. Juan Sebastián Elcano, c. 1486 – 1526
  15. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  16. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  17. Henry VIII, 1491 – 1547
  18. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  19. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  20. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  21. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500 – 1558
  22. Nostradamus, 1503 – 1566
  23. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564
  24. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, 1525 – 1594

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When Juan Sebastián Elcano died, Michelangelo was 51, Martin Luther was 42, Niccolò Machiavelli was 57, Nicolaus Copernicus was 53 and Albrecht Dürer was 55.

Born during Juan Sebastián Elcano’s lifetime: Jacques Cartier, Suleiman the Magnificent, John Calvin, François Rabelais, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, Nostradamus, Henry VIII and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.

Not quite contemporaries: Elizabeth I was born about 7 years after Juan Sebastián Elcano died, Michel de Montaigne was born about 7 years after Juan Sebastián Elcano died, Mehmed II died about 3 years before Juan Sebastián Elcano was born and Francis Drake was born about 12 years after Juan Sebastián Elcano died.

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Where Juan Sebastián Elcano’s contemporaries were born

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The 132 best-known contemporaries

132 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Juan Sebastián Elcano. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1507.

  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. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  12. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  13. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  14. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  15. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  16. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  17. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  18. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  19. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  20. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  21. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  22. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  23. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  24. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  25. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  26. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  27. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  28. Babur 1483 – 1530
  29. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  30. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  31. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  32. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  33. Pope Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  34. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  35. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  36. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  37. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  38. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  39. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  40. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  41. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  42. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  43. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  44. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  45. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  46. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  47. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  48. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  49. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  50. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  51. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  52. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  53. Jami 1414 – 1492
  54. Lorenzo de' Medici 1449 – 1492
  55. Girolamo Savonarola 1452 – 1498
  56. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  57. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  58. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  59. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  60. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  61. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  62. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  63. Pope Innocent VIII 1432 – 1492
  64. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  65. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  66. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  67. Bartolomeu Dias c. 1467 – 1500
  68. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  69. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  70. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  71. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  72. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  73. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  74. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  75. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  76. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  77. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  78. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  79. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  80. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  81. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  82. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  83. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 1463 – 1494
  84. Charles VIII of France 1470 – 1498
  85. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  86. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  87. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  88. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  89. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  90. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  91. Matthias Corvinus 1443 – 1490
  92. Domenico Ghirlandaio 1448 – 1494
  93. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  94. Marsilio Ficino 1433 – 1499
  95. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  96. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  97. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  98. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  99. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  100. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  101. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  102. Ali-Shir Nava'i 1441 – 1501
  103. John Cabot c. 1450 – c. 1498
  104. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  105. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  106. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  107. Piero della Francesca 1415 – 1492
  108. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  109. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  110. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  111. James V 1512 – 1542
  112. Giorgione 1478 – 1510
  113. Michael Servetus 1511 – 1553
  114. Catherine Howard 1524 – 1542
  115. Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor 1415 – 1493
  116. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  117. Pietro Perugino 1448 – 1523
  118. Cesare Borgia 1475 – 1507
  119. Anne of Cleves 1515 – 1557
  120. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486 – 1534
  121. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556
  122. Bronzino 1503 – 1572
  123. Juan Ponce de León 1460 – 1521
  124. Manuel I of Portugal 1469 – 1521
  125. Georgius Agricola 1494 – 1555
  126. Jane Seymour 1508 – 1537
  127. Piri Reis c. 1470 – c. 1554
  128. Vasco Núñez de Balboa c. 1475 – 1519
  129. James IV 1473 – 1513
  130. Baldassare Castiglione 1478 – 1529
  131. Vasili III of Russia 1479 – 1533
  132. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 1486 – 1535