Who Was Alive

Were Leonardo da Vinci and Suleiman the Magnificent alive at the same time?

Yes. Leonardo da Vinci and Suleiman the Magnificent were alive at the same time for 24 years, from 1494 to 1519.

Leonardo da Vinci was 42 when Suleiman the Magnificent was born.

Suleiman the Magnificent was 24 when Leonardo da Vinci died, aged 67.

Leonardo da Vinci

Italian Renaissance polymath

Born 15 April 1452 · died 2 May 1519, aged 67

Suleiman the Magnificent

The tenth and greatest Sultan of Ottoman Empire

Born 6 November 1494 · died 6 September 1566, aged 71

  1. Christopher Columbus
  2. Leonardo da Vinci
  3. Niccolò Machiavelli
  4. Nicolaus Copernicus
  5. Michelangelo
  6. Martin Luther
  7. Suleiman the Magnificent
  8. Galileo Galilei
  9. William Shakespeare
Leonardo da Vinci and Suleiman the Magnificent 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.