Michelangelo · Mimar Sinan Were Michelangelo and Mimar Sinan alive at the same time? Yes. Michelangelo and Mimar Sinan were alive at the same time, from c. 1490 to 1564. MichelangeloItalian artist and architectBorn 6 March 1475 · died 18 February 1564, aged 88Mimar Sinan16th-century Ottoman chief architect and civil engineerBorn c. 1490 · died 17 July 1588 Christopher ColumbusLeonardo da VinciMichelangeloMartin LutherMimar SinanMiguel de CervantesGalileo GalileiWilliam Shakespeare Michelangelo and Mimar Sinan in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.