Who Was Alive
Marguerite de Navarre
Jean Clouet, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Marguerite de Navarre

Writer

Born 11 April 1492 · died 21 December 1549, aged 57
Also known as Margaret of Valois-Angoulême, Marguerite de Valois-Angoulême, Margaret of Navarre

Who was alive at the same time as Marguerite de Navarre?

  1. Christopher Columbus, 1451 – 1506
  2. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  3. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  4. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  6. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  7. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  8. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  9. Thomas More, c. 1478 – 1535
  10. Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1480 – 1521
  11. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  12. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  13. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  14. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  15. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  16. Marguerite de Navarre, 1492 – 1549
  17. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  18. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  19. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564
  20. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  21. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  22. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  23. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  24. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600

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When Marguerite de Navarre was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 39, Michelangelo was 17, Martin Luther was 8, Christopher Columbus was 40 or 41 and Niccolò Machiavelli was 22.

When Marguerite de Navarre died, Michelangelo was 74, Elizabeth I was 16, Akbar was 7, Jacques Cartier was 57 and Suleiman the Magnificent was 55.

Born during Marguerite de Navarre’s lifetime: Miguel de Cervantes, Elizabeth I, Akbar, Suleiman the Magnificent, Giordano Bruno, Michel de Montaigne, John Calvin and François Rabelais.

Not quite contemporaries: William Shakespeare was born about 15 years after Marguerite de Navarre died, Galileo Galilei was born about 15 years after Marguerite de Navarre died, Francis Bacon was born about 12 years after Marguerite de Navarre died and Lope de Vega was born about 13 years after Marguerite de Navarre died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

166 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Marguerite de Navarre. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1521.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1519
  2. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  3. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  4. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  5. Christopher Columbus 1451 – 1506
  6. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  7. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  8. Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480 – 1521
  9. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  10. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  11. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  12. Vasco da Gama c. 1464 – 1524
  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, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  25. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  26. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  27. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  28. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  29. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  30. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  31. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  32. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  33. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  34. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  35. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  36. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  37. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  38. Babur 1483 – 1530
  39. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  40. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  41. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  42. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  43. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  44. Pope Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  45. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  46. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  47. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  48. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  49. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  50. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  51. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  52. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  53. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  54. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  55. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  56. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  57. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  58. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  59. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  60. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  61. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  62. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  63. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  64. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  65. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  66. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  67. Jami 1414 – 1492
  68. Girolamo Savonarola 1452 – 1498
  69. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  70. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  71. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  72. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  73. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  74. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  75. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  76. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  77. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  78. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  79. Pope Innocent VIII 1432 – 1492
  80. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  81. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  82. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  83. Bartolomeu Dias c. 1467 – 1500
  84. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  85. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  86. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  87. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  88. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  89. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  90. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  91. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  92. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  93. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  94. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  95. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  96. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  97. Lady Jane Grey 1537 – 1554
  98. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  99. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  100. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  101. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  102. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  103. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  104. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  105. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  106. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  107. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 1463 – 1494
  108. Charles VIII of France 1470 – 1498
  109. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  110. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  111. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  112. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  113. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  114. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  115. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  116. Domenico Ghirlandaio 1448 – 1494
  117. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  118. Marsilio Ficino 1433 – 1499
  119. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  120. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  121. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  122. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  123. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  124. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  125. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  126. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  127. Ali-Shir Nava'i 1441 – 1501
  128. John Cabot c. 1450 – c. 1498
  129. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  130. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  131. Francis II of France 1544 – 1560
  132. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  133. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  134. Piero della Francesca 1415 – 1492
  135. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  136. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  137. James V 1512 – 1542
  138. Giorgione 1478 – 1510
  139. Michael Servetus 1511 – 1553
  140. Catherine Howard 1524 – 1542
  141. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  142. Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor 1415 – 1493
  143. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  144. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593
  145. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598
  146. Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor 1527 – 1576
  147. Pietro Perugino 1448 – 1523
  148. Cesare Borgia 1475 – 1507
  149. Anne of Cleves 1515 – 1557
  150. Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 – 1625