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Moctezuma II
attributed to Antonio Rodriguez (1636-1691), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Moctezuma II

Politician

Born 1466 · died 29 June 1520, aged 53 or 54
Also known as Emperor of Mexico Montezuma II, Moteuczoma, Moctezuma the Young

Who was alive at the same time as Moctezuma II?

  1. Johannes Gutenberg, c. 1400 – 1468
  2. Mehmed II, 1432 – 1481
  3. Christopher Columbus, 1451 – 1506
  4. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  5. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  6. Moctezuma II, 1466 – 1520
  7. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  8. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  9. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  10. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  11. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  12. Thomas More, c. 1478 – 1535
  13. Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1480 – 1521
  14. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  15. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  16. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  17. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  18. Henry VIII, 1491 – 1547
  19. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  20. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  21. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  22. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500 – 1558
  23. Nostradamus, 1503 – 1566
  24. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564

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When Moctezuma II was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 13 or 14, Christopher Columbus was 14 or 15, Mehmed II was 33 or 34, Amerigo Vespucci was 11 or 12 and Isabella I of Castile was 14 or 15.

When Moctezuma II died, Michelangelo was 45, Martin Luther was 36, Niccolò Machiavelli was 51, Nicolaus Copernicus was 47 and Albrecht Dürer was 49.

Born during Moctezuma II’s lifetime: Michelangelo, Martin Luther, Niccolò Machiavelli, Nicolaus Copernicus, Ferdinand Magellan, Raphael, Albrecht Dürer and Hernán Cortés.

Not quite contemporaries: Elizabeth I was born about 13 years after Moctezuma II died, Michel de Montaigne was born about 13 years after Moctezuma II died, Ivan the Terrible was born about 10 years after Moctezuma II died and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was born about 5 years after Moctezuma II died.

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The 140 best-known contemporaries

140 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Moctezuma II. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1494.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1519
  2. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  3. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  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. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  10. Vasco da Gama c. 1464 – 1524
  11. Johannes Gutenberg c. 1400 – 1468
  12. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  13. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  14. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  15. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  16. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  17. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  18. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  19. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  20. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  21. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  22. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  23. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  24. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  25. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  26. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  27. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  28. Babur 1483 – 1530
  29. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  30. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  31. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  32. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  33. Pope Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  34. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  35. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  36. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  37. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  38. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  39. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  40. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  41. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  42. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  43. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  44. Vlad the Impaler c. 1430 – c. 1477
  45. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  46. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  47. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  48. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  49. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  50. Leon Battista Alberti 1404 – 1472
  51. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  52. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  53. Richard III of England 1452 – 1485
  54. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  55. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  56. Jami 1414 – 1492
  57. Lorenzo de' Medici 1449 – 1492
  58. Girolamo Savonarola 1452 – 1498
  59. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  60. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  61. Louis XI 1423 – 1483
  62. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  63. Skanderbeg 1405 – 1468
  64. Pope Sixtus IV 1414 – 1484
  65. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  66. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  67. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  68. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  69. Pope Innocent VIII 1432 – 1492
  70. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  71. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  72. Pope Paul II 1417 – 1471
  73. Bartolomeu Dias c. 1467 – 1500
  74. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  75. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  76. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  77. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  78. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  79. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  80. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  81. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  82. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  83. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  84. Thomas à Kempis c. 1381 – 1471
  85. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  86. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  87. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  88. Edward IV 1442 – 1483
  89. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 1463 – 1494
  90. Charles VIII of France 1470 – 1498
  91. Henry VI of England 1421 – 1471
  92. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  93. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  94. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  95. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  96. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  97. Matthias Corvinus 1443 – 1490
  98. Domenico Ghirlandaio 1448 – 1494
  99. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  100. Marsilio Ficino 1433 – 1499
  101. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  102. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  103. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  104. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  105. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  106. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  107. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  108. Ali-Shir Nava'i 1441 – 1501
  109. John Cabot c. 1450 – c. 1498
  110. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  111. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  112. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  113. Piero della Francesca 1415 – 1492
  114. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  115. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  116. James V 1512 – 1542
  117. Giorgione 1478 – 1510
  118. Michael Servetus 1511 – 1553
  119. Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor 1415 – 1493
  120. Andrea del Verrocchio c. 1435 – 1488
  121. Charles the Bold 1433 – 1477
  122. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  123. Pietro Perugino 1448 – 1523
  124. Cesare Borgia 1475 – 1507
  125. Anne of Cleves 1515 – 1557
  126. Juan Sebastián Elcano c. 1486 – 1526
  127. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486 – 1534
  128. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556
  129. Bronzino 1503 – 1572
  130. Juan Ponce de León 1460 – 1521
  131. Manuel I of Portugal 1469 – 1521
  132. Georgius Agricola 1494 – 1555
  133. Jane Seymour 1508 – 1537
  134. Piri Reis c. 1470 – c. 1554
  135. Christian I of Denmark 1426 – 1481
  136. Vasco Núñez de Balboa c. 1475 – 1519
  137. James IV 1473 – 1513
  138. Baldassare Castiglione 1478 – 1529
  139. Vasili III of Russia 1479 – 1533
  140. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 1486 – 1535