Who Was Alive

Luís de Camões

16th-century Portuguese poet

Born 1524–1525 · died 10 June 1580, aged 55

Who was alive at the same time as Luís de Camões?

  1. Erasmus
  2. Niccolò Machiavelli
  3. Albrecht Dürer
  4. Nicolaus Copernicus
  5. Michelangelo
  6. Thomas More
  7. Martin Luther
  8. Hernán Cortés
  9. Mimar Sinan
  10. Jacques Cartier
  11. François Rabelais
  12. Suleiman the Magnificent
  13. John Calvin
  14. Luís de Camões
  15. Michel de Montaigne
  16. Elizabeth I of England
  17. Akbar
  18. Miguel de Cervantes
  19. Giordano Bruno
  20. Francis Bacon
  21. Galileo Galilei
  22. William Shakespeare
  23. Johannes Kepler
  24. Peter Paul Rubens
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When Luís de Camões was born, Michelangelo was 49, Martin Luther was 41, Niccolò Machiavelli was 55, Nicolaus Copernicus was 51 and Albrecht Dürer was 53.

When Luís de Camões died, William Shakespeare was 16, Galileo Galilei was 16, Francis Bacon was 19, Elizabeth I of England was 46 and Johannes Kepler was 8.

Born during Luís de Camões’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, Miguel de Cervantes, Francis Bacon, Elizabeth I of England, Johannes Kepler, Peter Paul Rubens and Akbar.

Not quite contemporaries: Leonardo da Vinci died 5 years before Luís de Camões was born, Ferdinand Magellan died 3 years before Luís de Camões was born, Raphael died 4 years before Luís de Camões was born and Thomas Hobbes was born 8 years after Luís de Camões died.

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All 59 contemporaries we track

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  4. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  5. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  6. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  7. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  8. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  9. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  10. Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603
  11. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  12. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  13. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  14. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  15. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  16. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  17. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  18. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  19. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  20. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  21. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  22. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  23. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  24. Charles V 1500 – 1558
  25. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  26. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  27. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  28. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  29. Henry VIII of England 1491 – 1547
  30. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  31. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  32. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  33. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  34. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  35. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  36. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
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  38. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
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  42. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  43. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  44. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  45. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  46. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  47. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  48. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  49. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  50. Edward VI of England 1537 – 1553
  51. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
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  53. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  54. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  55. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
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  57. Pius V 1504 – 1572
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