Who Was Alive
Lady Jane Grey
Unidentified painter, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Lady Jane Grey

Monarch of England

Born October 1537 · died 12 February 1554, aged 16
Also known as Lady Jane Dudley, Queen Jane, The Nine Days' Queen

Who was alive at the same time as Lady Jane Grey?

  1. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  2. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  3. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  4. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  5. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  6. Henry VIII, 1491 – 1547
  7. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  8. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  9. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  10. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500 – 1558
  11. Nostradamus, 1503 – 1566
  12. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564
  13. Luís de Camões, c. 1525 – 1580
  14. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, 1525 – 1594
  15. Ivan the Terrible, 1530 – 1584
  16. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  17. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  18. Lady Jane Grey, 1537 – 1554
  19. Francis Drake, c. 1540 – 1596
  20. El Greco, 1541 – 1614
  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 Lady Jane Grey was born, Michelangelo was 62, Martin Luther was 53, Nicolaus Copernicus was 64, Elizabeth I was 4 and Hernán Cortés was 51 or 52.

When Lady Jane Grey died, Michelangelo was 78, Elizabeth I was 20, Akbar was 11, Jacques Cartier was 62 and Suleiman the Magnificent was 59.

Born during Lady Jane Grey’s lifetime: Miguel de Cervantes, Akbar, Giordano Bruno, Tycho Brahe, Francis Drake, El Greco, Mary, Queen of Scots and Henry IV of France.

Not quite contemporaries: William Shakespeare was born about 10 years after Lady Jane Grey died, Galileo Galilei was born about 10 years after Lady Jane Grey died, Niccolò Machiavelli died about 10 years before Lady Jane Grey was born and Francis Bacon was born about 7 years after Lady Jane Grey died.

What happened in Lady Jane Grey’s lifetime

Where Lady Jane Grey’s contemporaries were born

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The 114 best-known contemporaries

114 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Lady Jane Grey. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1546.

  1. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  2. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  3. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  4. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  5. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  6. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  7. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  8. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  9. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  10. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  11. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  12. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  13. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  14. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  15. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  16. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  17. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  18. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  19. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  20. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  21. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  22. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  23. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  24. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  25. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  26. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  27. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  28. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  29. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  30. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  31. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  32. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  33. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  34. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  35. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  36. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  37. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  38. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  39. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  40. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  41. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  42. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  43. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  44. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  45. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  46. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  47. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  48. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  49. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  50. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  51. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  52. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  53. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  54. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  55. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  56. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  57. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  58. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  59. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  60. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  61. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  62. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  63. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  64. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  65. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  66. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  67. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  68. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  69. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  70. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  71. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  72. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  73. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  74. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  75. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  76. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  77. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  78. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  79. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  80. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  81. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  82. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  83. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  84. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  85. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  86. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  87. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  88. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  89. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  90. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  91. Francis II of France 1544 – 1560
  92. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  93. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  94. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  95. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  96. James V 1512 – 1542
  97. Michael Servetus 1511 – 1553
  98. Catherine Howard 1524 – 1542
  99. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  100. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  101. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593
  102. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598
  103. Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor 1527 – 1576
  104. Anne of Cleves 1515 – 1557
  105. Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 – 1625
  106. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556
  107. Bronzino 1503 – 1572
  108. Matteo Ricci 1552 – 1610
  109. Georgius Agricola 1494 – 1555
  110. Piri Reis c. 1470 – c. 1554
  111. Charles IX of Sweden 1550 – 1611
  112. Jean Bodin 1530 – 1596
  113. Joseph of Anchieta 1534 – 1597
  114. Tomás Luis de Victoria c. 1548 – 1611