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Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
Albrecht Dürer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor

Holy Roman Emperor

Born 22 March 1459 · died 12 January 1519, aged 59
Also known as Maximilian I, Maximilian I.

Who was alive at the same time as Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor?

  1. Johannes Gutenberg, c. 1400 – 1468
  2. Mehmed II, 1432 – 1481
  3. Christopher Columbus, 1451 – 1506
  4. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  5. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  6. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1459 – 1519
  7. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  8. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  9. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  10. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  11. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  12. Thomas More, c. 1478 – 1535
  13. Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1480 – 1521
  14. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  15. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  16. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  17. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  18. Henry VIII, 1491 – 1547
  19. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  20. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  21. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  22. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500 – 1558
  23. Nostradamus, 1503 – 1566
  24. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564

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When Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 6, Christopher Columbus was 7 or 8, Mehmed II was 26, Amerigo Vespucci was 5 and Isabella I of Castile was 7.

When Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor died, Leonardo da Vinci was 66, Michelangelo was 43, Martin Luther was 35, Niccolò Machiavelli was 49 and Nicolaus Copernicus was 45.

Born during Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor’s lifetime: Michelangelo, Martin Luther, Niccolò Machiavelli, Nicolaus Copernicus, Ferdinand Magellan, Raphael, Albrecht Dürer and Hernán Cortés.

Not quite contemporaries: Elizabeth I was born about 14 years after Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor died, Michel de Montaigne was born about 14 years after Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor died, Ivan the Terrible was born about 11 years after Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor died and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was born about 6 years after Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor died.

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The 144 best-known contemporaries

144 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1489.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1519
  2. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  3. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  4. Christopher Columbus 1451 – 1506
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  6. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  7. Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480 – 1521
  8. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  9. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  10. Vasco da Gama c. 1464 – 1524
  11. Johannes Gutenberg c. 1400 – 1468
  12. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  13. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  14. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  15. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  16. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  17. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  18. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  19. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  20. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  21. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  22. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  23. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  24. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  25. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  26. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  27. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  28. Donatello c. 1386 – 1466
  29. Babur 1483 – 1530
  30. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  31. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  32. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  33. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  34. Pope Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  35. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  36. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  37. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  38. François Villon 1431 – 1463
  39. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  40. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  41. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  42. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  43. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  44. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  45. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  46. Vlad the Impaler c. 1430 – c. 1477
  47. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  48. Pope Pius II 1405 – 1464
  49. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  50. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  51. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  52. Leon Battista Alberti 1404 – 1472
  53. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  54. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  55. Richard III of England 1452 – 1485
  56. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  57. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  58. Jami 1414 – 1492
  59. Lorenzo de' Medici 1449 – 1492
  60. Girolamo Savonarola 1452 – 1498
  61. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  62. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  63. Louis XI 1423 – 1483
  64. Skanderbeg 1405 – 1468
  65. Pope Sixtus IV 1414 – 1484
  66. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  67. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  68. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  69. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  70. Nicholas of Cusa 1401 – 1464
  71. Pope Innocent VIII 1432 – 1492
  72. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  73. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  74. Pope Paul II 1417 – 1471
  75. Bartolomeu Dias c. 1467 – 1500
  76. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  77. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  78. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  79. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  80. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  81. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  82. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  83. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  84. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  85. Thomas à Kempis c. 1381 – 1471
  86. Charles VII of France 1403 – 1461
  87. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  88. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  89. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  90. Edward IV 1442 – 1483
  91. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 1463 – 1494
  92. Charles VIII of France 1470 – 1498
  93. Henry VI of England 1421 – 1471
  94. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  95. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  96. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  97. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  98. Matthias Corvinus 1443 – 1490
  99. Domenico Ghirlandaio 1448 – 1494
  100. Marsilio Ficino 1433 – 1499
  101. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  102. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  103. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  104. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  105. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  106. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  107. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  108. Ali-Shir Nava'i 1441 – 1501
  109. John Cabot c. 1450 – c. 1498
  110. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  111. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  112. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  113. Piero della Francesca 1415 – 1492
  114. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  115. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  116. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  117. James V 1512 – 1542
  118. Prince Henry the Navigator 1394 – 1460
  119. Giorgione 1478 – 1510
  120. Michael Servetus 1511 – 1553
  121. Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor 1415 – 1493
  122. Andrea del Verrocchio c. 1435 – 1488
  123. Charles the Bold 1433 – 1477
  124. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  125. Pietro Perugino 1448 – 1523
  126. Cesare Borgia 1475 – 1507
  127. Anne of Cleves 1515 – 1557
  128. Juan Sebastián Elcano c. 1486 – 1526
  129. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486 – 1534
  130. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556
  131. Bronzino 1503 – 1572
  132. Juan Ponce de León 1460 – 1521
  133. Manuel I of Portugal 1469 – 1521
  134. Georgius Agricola 1494 – 1555
  135. Jane Seymour 1508 – 1537
  136. Piri Reis c. 1470 – c. 1554
  137. Cosimo de' Medici 1389 – 1464
  138. Rogier van der Weyden c. 1396 – 1464
  139. Christian I of Denmark 1426 – 1481
  140. Vasco Núñez de Balboa c. 1475 – 1519
  141. James IV 1473 – 1513
  142. Baldassare Castiglione 1478 – 1529
  143. Vasili III of Russia 1479 – 1533
  144. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 1486 – 1535