Leonardo da Vinci · Mimar Sinan Were Leonardo da Vinci and Mimar Sinan alive at the same time? Yes. Leonardo da Vinci and Mimar Sinan were alive at the same time, from c. 1490 to 1519. Leonardo da VinciItalian Renaissance polymathBorn 15 April 1452 · died 2 May 1519, aged 67Mimar Sinan16th-century Ottoman chief architect and civil engineerBorn c. 1490 · died 17 July 1588 Christopher ColumbusLeonardo da VinciNiccolò MachiavelliNicolaus CopernicusMichelangeloMartin LutherMimar SinanGalileo GalileiWilliam Shakespeare Leonardo da Vinci and Mimar Sinan in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.