Who Was Alive

Mehmed II

Seventh Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

Born 30 March 1432 · died 3 May 1481, aged 49

Who was alive at the same time as Mehmed II?

  1. Zheng He
  2. Donatello
  3. Johannes Gutenberg
  4. Alexander VI
  5. François Villon
  6. Mehmed II
  7. Sandro Botticelli
  8. Julius II
  9. Hieronymus Bosch
  10. Christopher Columbus
  11. Isabella I of Castile
  12. Leonardo da Vinci
  13. Amerigo Vespucci
  14. Vasco da Gama
  15. Erasmus
  16. Paul III
  17. Guru Nanak
  18. Niccolò Machiavelli
  19. Albrecht Dürer
  20. Nicolaus Copernicus
  21. Ludovico Ariosto
  22. Michelangelo
  23. Leo X
  24. Thomas More
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 Mehmed II was born, Zheng He was 60 or 61, François Villon was about a year old and Pius II was 26.

When Mehmed II died, Leonardo da Vinci was 29, Michelangelo was 6, Christopher Columbus was 29 or 30, Niccolò Machiavelli was 12 and Nicolaus Copernicus was 8.

Born during Mehmed II’s lifetime: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Christopher Columbus, Niccolò Machiavelli, Nicolaus Copernicus, Albrecht Dürer, Vasco da Gama and Erasmus.

Not quite contemporaries: Martin Luther was born 2 years after Mehmed II died, Raphael was born 2 years after Mehmed II died, Joan of Arc died about a year before Mehmed II was born and Hernán Cortés was born 4 years after Mehmed II died.

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All 27 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. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  7. Vasco da Gama 1457–1469 – 1524
  8. Johannes Gutenberg 1393–1406 – 1468
  9. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  10. Zheng He 1371 – 1433–1435
  11. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  12. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  13. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  14. Donatello c. 1386 – 1466
  15. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  16. Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  17. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  18. François Villon 1431 – 1463
  19. Julius II 1443 – 1513
  20. Leo X 1475 – 1521
  21. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  22. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  23. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  24. Vlad the Impaler 1428–1431 – 1476–1477
  25. Pius II 1405 – 1464
  26. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  27. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541