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Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor
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Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor

Holy Roman Emperor

Born 31 July 1527 · died 12 October 1576, aged 49
Also known as Maximilian II, Maximilian of Austria

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

  1. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  2. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  3. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  4. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  5. Thomas More, c. 1478 – 1535
  6. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  7. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  8. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  9. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  10. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  11. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  12. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500 – 1558
  13. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564
  14. Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1527 – 1576
  15. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  16. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  17. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  18. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  19. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  20. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  21. Lope de Vega, 1562 – 1635
  22. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  23. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  24. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630

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When Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor was born, Michelangelo was 52, Martin Luther was 43, Nicolaus Copernicus was 54, Albrecht Dürer was 56 and Hernán Cortés was 41 or 42.

When Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor died, William Shakespeare was 12, Galileo Galilei was 12, Elizabeth I was 43, Francis Bacon was 15 and Johannes Kepler was 4.

Born during Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, Miguel de Cervantes, Elizabeth I, Francis Bacon, Johannes Kepler, Akbar and Giordano Bruno.

Not quite contemporaries: Leonardo da Vinci died about 8 years before Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor was born, Niccolò Machiavelli died months before Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor was born, Ferdinand Magellan died about 6 years before Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor was born and Raphael died about 7 years before Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

156 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1552.

  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. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  8. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  9. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  10. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  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. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  17. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  18. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  19. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  20. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  21. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  22. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  23. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  24. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  25. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  26. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  27. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  28. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  29. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  30. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  31. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  32. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  33. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  34. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  35. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  36. Babur 1483 – 1530
  37. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  38. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  39. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  40. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  41. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  42. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  43. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  44. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  45. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  46. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  47. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  48. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  49. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  50. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  51. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  52. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  53. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  54. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  55. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  56. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  57. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  58. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  59. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  60. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  61. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  62. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  63. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  64. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  65. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  66. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  67. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  68. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  69. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  70. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  71. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  72. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  73. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  74. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  75. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  76. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  77. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  78. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  79. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  80. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  81. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  82. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  83. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  84. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  85. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  86. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  87. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  88. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  89. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  90. Lady Jane Grey 1537 – 1554
  91. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  92. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  93. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  94. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  95. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  96. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  97. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  98. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  99. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  100. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  101. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  102. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  103. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  104. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  105. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  106. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  107. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  108. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  109. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  110. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  111. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  112. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  113. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  114. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  115. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  116. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  117. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  118. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  119. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  120. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  121. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  122. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  123. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  124. Francis II of France 1544 – 1560
  125. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  126. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  127. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  128. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  129. James V 1512 – 1542
  130. Michael Servetus 1511 – 1553
  131. Catherine Howard 1524 – 1542
  132. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  133. Marie de' Medici 1575 – 1642
  134. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  135. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593
  136. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598
  137. Anne of Cleves 1515 – 1557
  138. Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 – 1625
  139. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486 – 1534
  140. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556
  141. Bronzino 1503 – 1572
  142. Matteo Ricci 1552 – 1610
  143. Feodor I of Russia 1557 – 1598
  144. Elizabeth Báthory 1560 – 1614
  145. Luis de Góngora 1561 – 1627
  146. Georgius Agricola 1494 – 1555
  147. Jane Seymour 1508 – 1537
  148. Piri Reis c. 1470 – c. 1554
  149. Charles IX of Sweden 1550 – 1611
  150. Baldassare Castiglione 1478 – 1529