Who Was Alive

Michel de Montaigne

French author, philosopher, and statesman

Born 28 February 1533 · died 13 September 1592, aged 59

Who was alive at the same time as Michel de Montaigne?

  1. Erasmus
  2. Nicolaus Copernicus
  3. Michelangelo
  4. Thomas More
  5. Martin Luther
  6. Hernán Cortés
  7. Mimar Sinan
  8. Jacques Cartier
  9. François Rabelais
  10. Suleiman the Magnificent
  11. Charles V
  12. John Calvin
  13. Michel de Montaigne
  14. Elizabeth I of England
  15. Akbar
  16. Miguel de Cervantes
  17. Giordano Bruno
  18. Francis Bacon
  19. Lope de Vega
  20. Galileo Galilei
  21. William Shakespeare
  22. Johannes Kepler
  23. Peter Paul Rubens
  24. Thomas Hobbes
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 Michel de Montaigne was born, Michelangelo was 57, Martin Luther was 49, Nicolaus Copernicus was 60, Hernán Cortés was 47 or 48 and Jacques Cartier was 41.

When Michel de Montaigne died, William Shakespeare was 28, Galileo Galilei was 28, Francis Bacon was 31, Elizabeth I of England was 58 and Johannes Kepler was 20.

Born during Michel de Montaigne’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, Miguel de Cervantes, Francis Bacon, Elizabeth I of England, Johannes Kepler, Peter Paul Rubens and Akbar.

Not quite contemporaries: Leonardo da Vinci died 14 years before Michel de Montaigne was born, René Descartes was born 4 years after Michel de Montaigne died, Niccolò Machiavelli died 6 years before Michel de Montaigne was born and Rembrandt was born 14 years after Michel de Montaigne died.

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All 60 contemporaries we track

  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. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  8. Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603
  9. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  10. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  11. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  12. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  13. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  14. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  15. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  16. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  17. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  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 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 of England 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 1524–1525 – 1580
  33. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  34. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  35. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  36. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  37. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  38. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  39. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  40. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  41. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  42. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  43. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  44. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  45. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  46. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  47. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  48. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  49. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  50. Edward VI of England 1537 – 1553
  51. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  52. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  53. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  54. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  55. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  56. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  57. Pieter Brueghel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  58. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  59. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  60. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644