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Mehmed III
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Mehmed III

Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

Born 26 May 1566 · died 22 December 1603, aged 37

Who was alive at the same time as Mehmed III?

  1. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  2. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  3. Nostradamus, 1503 – 1566
  4. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, 1525 – 1594
  5. Ivan the Terrible, 1530 – 1584
  6. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  7. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  8. Francis Drake, c. 1540 – 1596
  9. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  10. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  11. Tycho Brahe, 1546 – 1601
  12. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  13. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  14. Lope de Vega, 1562 – 1635
  15. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  16. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  17. Mehmed III, 1566 – 1603
  18. Caravaggio, 1571 – 1610
  19. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  20. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  21. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  22. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  23. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  24. Oliver Cromwell, 1599 – 1658

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When Mehmed III was born, William Shakespeare was 2, Galileo Galilei was 2, Elizabeth I was 32, Francis Bacon was 5 and Akbar was 23.

When Mehmed III died, William Shakespeare was 39, Galileo Galilei was 39, René Descartes was 7, Francis Bacon was 42 and Johannes Kepler was 31.

Born during Mehmed III’s lifetime: René Descartes, Johannes Kepler, Peter Paul Rubens, Diego Velázquez, Thomas Hobbes, Oliver Cromwell, Caravaggio and Charles I of England.

Not quite contemporaries: Michelangelo died about 2 years before Mehmed III was born, Rembrandt was born about 3 years after Mehmed III died, Jacques Cartier died about 9 years before Mehmed III was born and John Milton was born about 5 years after Mehmed III died.

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The 138 best-known contemporaries

138 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Mehmed III. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1585.

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  4. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  5. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  6. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  7. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  8. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  9. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  10. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  11. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  12. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  13. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  14. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  15. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  16. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  17. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  18. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  19. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  20. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  21. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  22. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  23. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  24. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  25. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  26. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  27. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  28. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  29. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  30. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  31. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  32. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  33. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  34. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  35. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  36. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  37. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  38. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  39. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  40. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  41. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  42. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  43. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  44. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  45. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  46. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  47. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  48. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  49. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  50. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  51. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  52. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  53. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  54. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  55. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  56. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  57. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  58. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  59. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  60. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  61. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  62. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  63. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  64. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  65. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  66. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  67. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  68. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  69. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  70. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  71. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  72. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  73. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  74. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  75. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  76. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  77. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  78. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  79. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  80. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  81. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  82. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  83. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  84. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  85. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  86. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  87. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  88. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  89. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  90. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  91. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  92. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  93. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  94. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  95. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  96. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  97. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  98. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  99. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  100. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  101. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  102. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  103. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  104. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  105. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  106. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  107. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  108. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  109. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  110. Mumtaz Mahal 1593 – 1631
  111. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  112. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  113. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  114. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  115. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  116. Marie de' Medici 1575 – 1642
  117. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  118. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593
  119. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598
  120. Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor 1527 – 1576
  121. Christian IV of Denmark 1577 – 1648
  122. Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 – 1625
  123. George Herbert 1593 – 1633
  124. Pocahontas c. 1596 – 1617
  125. Francesco Borromini 1599 – 1667
  126. Bronzino 1503 – 1572
  127. Matteo Ricci 1552 – 1610
  128. Feodor I of Russia 1557 – 1598
  129. Elizabeth Báthory 1560 – 1614
  130. Luis de Góngora 1561 – 1627
  131. Vincent de Paul 1581 – 1660
  132. Otto von Guericke 1602 – 1686
  133. Charles IX of Sweden 1550 – 1611
  134. Jean Bodin 1530 – 1596
  135. Joseph of Anchieta 1534 – 1597
  136. Tomás Luis de Victoria c. 1548 – 1611
  137. Philip Sidney 1554 – 1586
  138. Pierre Gassendi 1592 – 1655