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Mirabai
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Mirabai

Indian mystic and poet

Born 1498–1504 · died 1546–1552
Also known as Meera, Mira Bai, Meera Bai

Who was alive at the same time as Mirabai?

  1. Christopher Columbus, 1451 – 1506
  2. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  3. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  4. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  6. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  7. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  8. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  9. Thomas More, c. 1478 – 1535
  10. Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1480 – 1521
  11. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  12. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  13. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  14. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  15. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  16. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  17. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  18. Mirabai, c. 1501 – c. 1549
  19. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500 – 1558
  20. Nostradamus, 1503 – 1566
  21. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564
  22. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  23. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  24. Akbar, 1542 – 1605

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Born during Mirabai’s lifetime: Elizabeth I, Akbar, Michel de Montaigne, John Calvin, Francis Drake, Ivan the Terrible, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and El Greco.

Not quite contemporaries: William Shakespeare was born about 12 years after Mirabai died, Galileo Galilei was born about 12 years after Mirabai died, Francis Bacon was born about 9 years after Mirabai died and Lope de Vega was born about 10 years after Mirabai died.

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The 149 best-known contemporaries

149 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Mirabai. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1525.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1519
  2. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  3. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  4. Christopher Columbus 1451 – 1506
  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. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  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, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  23. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  24. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  25. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  26. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  27. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  28. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  29. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  30. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  31. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  32. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  33. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  34. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  35. Babur 1483 – 1530
  36. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  37. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  38. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  39. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  40. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  41. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  42. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  43. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  44. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  45. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  46. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  47. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  48. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  49. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  50. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  51. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  52. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  53. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  54. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  55. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  56. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  57. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  58. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  59. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  60. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  61. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  62. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  63. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  64. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  65. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  66. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  67. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  68. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  69. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  70. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  71. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  72. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  73. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  74. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  75. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  76. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  77. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  78. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  79. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  80. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  81. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  82. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  83. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  84. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  85. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  86. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  87. Lady Jane Grey 1537 – 1554
  88. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  89. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  90. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  91. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  92. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  93. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  94. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  95. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  96. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  97. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  98. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  99. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  100. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  101. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  102. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  103. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  104. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  105. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  106. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  107. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  108. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  109. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  110. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  111. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  112. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  113. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  114. Francis II of France 1544 – 1560
  115. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  116. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  117. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  118. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  119. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  120. James V 1512 – 1542
  121. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  122. Giorgione 1478 – 1510
  123. Michael Servetus 1511 – 1553
  124. Catherine Howard 1524 – 1542
  125. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  126. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593
  127. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598
  128. Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor 1527 – 1576
  129. Pietro Perugino 1448 – 1523
  130. Cesare Borgia 1475 – 1507
  131. Juan Sebastián Elcano c. 1486 – 1526
  132. Anne of Cleves 1515 – 1557
  133. Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 – 1625
  134. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486 – 1534
  135. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556
  136. Bronzino 1503 – 1572
  137. Juan Ponce de León 1460 – 1521
  138. Manuel I of Portugal 1469 – 1521
  139. Georgius Agricola 1494 – 1555
  140. Jane Seymour 1508 – 1537
  141. Piri Reis c. 1470 – c. 1554
  142. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 1486 – 1535
  143. Vasco Núñez de Balboa c. 1475 – 1519
  144. James IV 1473 – 1513
  145. Baldassare Castiglione 1478 – 1529
  146. Vasili III of Russia 1479 – 1533
  147. Jean Bodin 1530 – 1596
  148. Joseph of Anchieta 1534 – 1597
  149. Joachim du Bellay 1522 – 1560