Who Was Alive

Martin Luther

German priest and theologian

Born 10 November 1483 · died 18 February 1546, aged 62

Who was alive at the same time as Martin Luther?

  1. Christopher Columbus
  2. Leonardo da Vinci
  3. Vasco da Gama
  4. Erasmus
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli
  6. Albrecht Dürer
  7. Nicolaus Copernicus
  8. Michelangelo
  9. Thomas More
  10. Ferdinand Magellan
  11. Raphael
  12. Martin Luther
  13. Hernán Cortés
  14. Mimar Sinan
  15. Jacques Cartier
  16. François Rabelais
  17. Suleiman the Magnificent
  18. Charles V
  19. Nostradamus
  20. John Calvin
  21. Michel de Montaigne
  22. Elizabeth I of England
  23. Francis Drake
  24. Akbar
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Martin Luther was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 31, Michelangelo was 8, Christopher Columbus was 31 or 32, Niccolò Machiavelli was 14 and Nicolaus Copernicus was 10.

When Martin Luther died, Michelangelo was 70, Elizabeth I of England was 12, Hernán Cortés was 60 or 61, Akbar was 3 and Jacques Cartier was 54.

Born during Martin Luther’s lifetime: Elizabeth I of England, Hernán Cortés, Akbar, Jacques Cartier, Suleiman the Magnificent, Michel de Montaigne, Mimar Sinan and John Calvin.

Not quite contemporaries: Francis Bacon was born 15 years after Martin Luther died, Johannes Gutenberg died 14 years before Martin Luther was born, Giordano Bruno was born 2 years after Martin Luther died and Tycho Brahe was born months after Martin Luther died.

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All 56 contemporaries we track

  1. Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1519
  2. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  3. Christopher Columbus 1451 – 1506
  4. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  5. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  6. Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480 – 1521
  7. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  8. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  9. Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603
  10. Vasco da Gama 1457–1469 – 1524
  11. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  12. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  13. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  14. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  15. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  16. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  17. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  18. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  19. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  20. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  21. Charles V 1500 – 1558
  22. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  23. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  24. Henry VIII of England 1491 – 1547
  25. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  26. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  27. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  28. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  29. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  30. Luís de Camões 1524–1525 – 1580
  31. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  32. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  33. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  34. Babur 1483 – 1530
  35. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  36. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  37. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  38. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  39. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  40. Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  41. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  42. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  43. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  44. Julius II 1443 – 1513
  45. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  46. Edward VI of England 1537 – 1553
  47. Leo X 1475 – 1521
  48. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  49. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  50. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  51. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  52. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  53. Pieter Brueghel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  54. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  55. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  56. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541