Who Was Alive

Mary, Queen of Scots

Queen of Scotland from 1542 to 1567

Born 8 December 1542 · died 8 February 1587, aged 44

Who was alive at the same time as Mary, Queen of Scots?

  1. Nicolaus Copernicus
  2. Michelangelo
  3. Martin Luther
  4. Hernán Cortés
  5. Mimar Sinan
  6. Jacques Cartier
  7. François Rabelais
  8. Suleiman the Magnificent
  9. Charles V
  10. Nostradamus
  11. John Calvin
  12. Michel de Montaigne
  13. Elizabeth I of England
  14. Akbar
  15. Mary, Queen of Scots
  16. Miguel de Cervantes
  17. Tycho Brahe
  18. Giordano Bruno
  19. Francis Bacon
  20. Lope de Vega
  21. Galileo Galilei
  22. William Shakespeare
  23. Johannes Kepler
  24. Peter Paul Rubens
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 Mary, Queen of Scots was born, Michelangelo was 67, Martin Luther was 59, Nicolaus Copernicus was 69, Elizabeth I of England was 9 and Hernán Cortés was 56 or 57.

When Mary, Queen of Scots died, William Shakespeare was 22, Galileo Galilei was 22, Francis Bacon was 26, Elizabeth I of England was 53 and Johannes Kepler was 15.

Born during Mary, Queen of Scots’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, Miguel de Cervantes, Francis Bacon, Johannes Kepler, Peter Paul Rubens, Giordano Bruno and Lope de Vega.

Not quite contemporaries: René Descartes was born 9 years after Mary, Queen of Scots died, Albrecht Dürer died 14 years before Mary, Queen of Scots was born, Diego Velázquez was born 12 years after Mary, Queen of Scots died and Thomas Hobbes was born about a year after Mary, Queen of Scots died.

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All 50 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. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  7. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  8. Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603
  9. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  10. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  11. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  12. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  13. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  14. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  15. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  16. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  17. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  18. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  19. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  20. Charles V 1500 – 1558
  21. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  22. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  23. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  24. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  25. Henry VIII of England 1491 – 1547
  26. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  27. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  28. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  29. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  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. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  35. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  36. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  37. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  38. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  39. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  40. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  41. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  42. Edward VI of England 1537 – 1553
  43. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  44. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  45. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  46. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  47. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  48. Pieter Brueghel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  49. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  50. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644