Who Was Alive
Michael Servetus
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Michael Servetus

Spanish physician and theologian

Born 29 September 1511 · died 27 October 1553, aged 42
Also known as Servetus, Miguel Servet, Michel Servet

Who was alive at the same time as Michael Servetus?

  1. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  2. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  3. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  4. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  5. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  6. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  7. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  8. Thomas More, c. 1478 – 1535
  9. Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1480 – 1521
  10. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  11. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  12. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  13. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  14. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  15. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  16. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  17. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500 – 1558
  18. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564
  19. Michael Servetus, 1511 – 1553
  20. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  21. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  22. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  23. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  24. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600

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When Michael Servetus was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 59, Michelangelo was 36, Martin Luther was 27, Niccolò Machiavelli was 42 and Nicolaus Copernicus was 38.

When Michael Servetus died, Michelangelo was 78, Elizabeth I was 20, Akbar was 11, Jacques Cartier was 61 and Suleiman the Magnificent was 58.

Born during Michael Servetus’s lifetime: Miguel de Cervantes, Elizabeth I, Akbar, Giordano Bruno, Michel de Montaigne, Tycho Brahe, Francis Drake and Ivan the Terrible.

Not quite contemporaries: William Shakespeare was born about 11 years after Michael Servetus died, Galileo Galilei was born about 11 years after Michael Servetus died, Christopher Columbus died about 5 years before Michael Servetus was born and Francis Bacon was born about 8 years after Michael Servetus died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

156 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Michael Servetus. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1532.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1519
  2. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  3. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  4. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  6. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  7. Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480 – 1521
  8. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  9. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  10. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  11. Vasco da Gama c. 1464 – 1524
  12. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  13. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  14. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  15. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  16. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  17. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  18. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  19. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  20. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  21. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  22. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  23. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  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. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  31. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  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. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  43. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  44. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  45. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  46. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  47. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  48. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  49. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  50. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  51. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  52. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  53. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  54. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  55. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  56. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  57. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  58. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  59. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  60. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  61. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  62. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  63. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  64. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  65. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  66. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  67. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  68. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  69. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  70. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  71. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  72. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  73. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  74. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  75. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  76. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  77. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  78. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  79. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  80. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  81. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  82. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  83. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  84. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  85. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  86. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  87. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  88. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  89. Lady Jane Grey 1537 – 1554
  90. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  91. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  92. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  93. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  94. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  95. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  96. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  97. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  98. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  99. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  100. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  101. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  102. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  103. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  104. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  105. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  106. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  107. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  108. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  109. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  110. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  111. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  112. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  113. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  114. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  115. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  116. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  117. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  118. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  119. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  120. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  121. Francis II of France 1544 – 1560
  122. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  123. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  124. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  125. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  126. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  127. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  128. James V 1512 – 1542
  129. Catherine Howard 1524 – 1542
  130. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  131. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  132. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593
  133. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598
  134. Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor 1527 – 1576
  135. Pietro Perugino 1448 – 1523
  136. Anne of Cleves 1515 – 1557
  137. Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 – 1625
  138. Juan Sebastián Elcano c. 1486 – 1526
  139. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486 – 1534
  140. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556
  141. Bronzino 1503 – 1572
  142. Matteo Ricci 1552 – 1610
  143. Juan Ponce de León 1460 – 1521
  144. Manuel I of Portugal 1469 – 1521
  145. Georgius Agricola 1494 – 1555
  146. Jane Seymour 1508 – 1537
  147. Piri Reis c. 1470 – c. 1554
  148. Charles IX of Sweden 1550 – 1611
  149. Vasco Núñez de Balboa c. 1475 – 1519
  150. James IV 1473 – 1513