Who Was Alive
Leon Battista Alberti
Leon Battista Alberti, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons

Leon Battista Alberti

Italian architect and writer

Born 14 February 1404 · died 25 April 1472, aged 68
Also known as Leon Batista Alberti, Lepidus, Leo-Battista degli Alberti

Who was alive at the same time as Leon Battista Alberti?

  1. Ibn Khaldun, c. 1332 – c. 1406
  2. Timur, 1336 – 1405
  3. Jan Hus, c. 1375 – 1415
  4. Zheng He, 1371 – c. 1435
  5. Donatello, c. 1386 – 1466
  6. Johannes Gutenberg, c. 1400 – 1468
  7. Leon Battista Alberti, 1404 – 1472
  8. Joan of Arc, c. 1412 – 1431
  9. Pope Alexander VI, c. 1431 – 1503
  10. François Villon, 1431 – 1463
  11. Mehmed II, 1432 – 1481
  12. Sandro Botticelli, c. 1445 – 1510
  13. Pope Julius II, 1443 – 1513
  14. Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1450 – 1516
  15. Christopher Columbus, 1451 – 1506
  16. Isabella I of Castile, 1451 – 1504
  17. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  18. Amerigo Vespucci, 1454 – 1512
  19. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  20. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  21. Pope Paul III, 1468 – 1549
  22. Guru Nanak, 1469 – 1539
  23. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  24. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528

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When Leon Battista Alberti was born, Ibn Khaldun was 71 or 72, Timur was 67, Zheng He was 32 or 33, Pope Callixtus III was 25 and Henry V of England was 17.

When Leon Battista Alberti died, Leonardo da Vinci was 20, Christopher Columbus was 20 or 21, Niccolò Machiavelli was 2, Albrecht Dürer was under a year old and Erasmus was 5.

Born during Leon Battista Alberti’s lifetime: Leonardo da Vinci, Christopher Columbus, Niccolò Machiavelli, Joan of Arc, Albrecht Dürer, Vasco da Gama, Erasmus and Mehmed II.

Not quite contemporaries: Michelangelo was born about 3 years after Leon Battista Alberti died, Martin Luther was born about 11 years after Leon Battista Alberti died, Nicolaus Copernicus was born about a year after Leon Battista Alberti died and Ferdinand Magellan was born about 6 years after Leon Battista Alberti died.

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The 102 best-known contemporaries

102 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Leon Battista Alberti. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1438.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1519
  2. Christopher Columbus 1451 – 1506
  3. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  4. Joan of Arc c. 1412 – 1431
  5. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  6. Vasco da Gama c. 1464 – 1524
  7. Johannes Gutenberg c. 1400 – 1468
  8. Ibn Khaldun c. 1332 – c. 1406
  9. Timur 1336 – 1405
  10. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  11. Zheng He 1371 – c. 1435
  12. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  13. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  14. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  15. Donatello c. 1386 – 1466
  16. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  17. Jan Hus c. 1375 – 1415
  18. Pope Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  19. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  20. François Villon 1431 – 1463
  21. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  22. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  23. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  24. Vlad the Impaler c. 1430 – c. 1477
  25. Pope Pius II 1405 – 1464
  26. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  27. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  28. Richard III of England 1452 – 1485
  29. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  30. Pope Callixtus III 1379 – 1458
  31. Henry V of England 1386 – 1422
  32. Jan van Eyck c. 1390 – 1441
  33. Jami 1414 – 1492
  34. Lorenzo de' Medici 1449 – 1492
  35. Girolamo Savonarola 1452 – 1498
  36. Pope Eugene IV 1383 – 1447
  37. Pope Nicholas V c. 1397 – 1455
  38. Louis XI 1423 – 1483
  39. Skanderbeg 1405 – 1468
  40. Pope Sixtus IV 1414 – 1484
  41. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  42. Nicholas of Cusa 1401 – 1464
  43. Pope Innocent VIII 1432 – 1492
  44. Pope Paul II 1417 – 1471
  45. Bartolomeu Dias c. 1467 – 1500
  46. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  47. Pope Martin V c. 1369 – 1431
  48. Murad II 1404 – 1451
  49. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  50. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  51. Christine de Pizan 1364 – 1430
  52. Charles VI of France 1368 – 1422
  53. Masaccio 1401 – 1428
  54. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  55. Ulugh Beg 1394 – 1449
  56. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  57. Thomas à Kempis c. 1381 – 1471
  58. Charles VII of France 1403 – 1461
  59. Fra Angelico c. 1396 – 1455
  60. Sejong the Great 1397 – 1450
  61. Edward IV 1442 – 1483
  62. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 1463 – 1494
  63. Charles VIII of France 1470 – 1498
  64. Pope Gregory XII c. 1335 – 1417
  65. Władysław II Jagiełło 1362 – 1434
  66. Constantine XI Palaiologos 1404 – 1453
  67. Henry VI of England 1421 – 1471
  68. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  69. Pope Innocent VII c. 1338 – 1406
  70. Henry IV of England 1367 – 1413
  71. Mehmed I 1386 – 1421
  72. Pope Boniface IX 1356 – 1404
  73. Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor 1368 – 1437
  74. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  75. Matthias Corvinus 1443 – 1490
  76. Domenico Ghirlandaio 1448 – 1494
  77. Marsilio Ficino 1433 – 1499
  78. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  79. Andrei Rublev 1360s – 1430
  80. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  81. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  82. Ali-Shir Nava'i 1441 – 1501
  83. John Cabot c. 1450 – c. 1498
  84. Filippo Brunelleschi 1377 – 1446
  85. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  86. Piero della Francesca 1415 – 1492
  87. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  88. Prince Henry the Navigator 1394 – 1460
  89. Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor 1415 – 1493
  90. Andrea del Verrocchio c. 1435 – 1488
  91. Charles the Bold 1433 – 1477
  92. Pietro Perugino 1448 – 1523
  93. Zeami Motokiyo c. 1363 – 1443
  94. Margaret I of Denmark 1353 – 1412
  95. Juan Ponce de León 1460 – 1521
  96. Manuel I of Portugal 1469 – 1521
  97. James I of Scotland 1394 – 1437
  98. Manuel II Palaiologos 1350 – 1425
  99. Cosimo de' Medici 1389 – 1464
  100. Rogier van der Weyden c. 1396 – 1464
  101. Christian I of Denmark 1426 – 1481
  102. Lorenzo Valla 1407 – 1457