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Murad III
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Murad III

Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

Born 4 July 1546 · died 16 January 1595, aged 48

Who was alive at the same time as Murad III?

  1. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  2. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  3. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  4. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  5. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  6. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  7. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500 – 1558
  8. Nostradamus, 1503 – 1566
  9. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564
  10. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  11. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  12. Francis Drake, c. 1540 – 1596
  13. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  14. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  15. Murad III, 1546 – 1595
  16. Tycho Brahe, 1546 – 1601
  17. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  18. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  19. Lope de Vega, 1562 – 1635
  20. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  21. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  22. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  23. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  24. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679

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When Murad III was born, Michelangelo was 71, Elizabeth I was 12, Hernán Cortés was 60 or 61, Akbar was 3 and Jacques Cartier was 54.

When Murad III died, William Shakespeare was 30, Galileo Galilei was 30, Elizabeth I was 61, Francis Bacon was 33 and Johannes Kepler was 23.

Born during Murad III’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, Francis Bacon, Johannes Kepler, Peter Paul Rubens, Thomas Hobbes, Giordano Bruno and Lope de Vega.

Not quite contemporaries: Martin Luther died months before Murad III was born, René Descartes was born about a year after Murad III died, Nicolaus Copernicus died about 3 years before Murad III was born and Rembrandt was born about 11 years after Murad III died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

157 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Murad III. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1571.

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  4. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  5. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  6. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  7. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  8. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  9. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  10. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  11. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  12. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  13. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  14. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  15. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  16. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  17. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  18. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  19. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  20. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  21. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  22. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  23. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  24. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  25. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  26. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  27. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  28. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  29. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  30. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  31. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  32. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  33. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  34. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  35. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  36. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  37. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  38. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  39. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  40. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  41. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  42. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  43. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  44. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  45. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  46. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  47. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  48. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  49. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  50. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  51. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  52. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  53. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  54. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  55. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  56. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  57. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  58. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  59. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  60. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  61. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  62. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  63. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  64. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  65. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  66. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  67. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  68. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  69. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  70. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  71. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  72. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  73. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  74. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  75. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  76. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  77. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  78. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  79. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  80. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  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. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  89. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  90. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  91. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  92. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  93. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  94. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  95. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  96. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  97. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  98. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  99. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  100. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  101. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  102. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  103. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  104. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  105. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  106. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  107. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  108. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  109. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  110. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  111. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  112. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  113. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  114. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  115. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  116. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  117. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  118. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  119. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  120. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  121. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  122. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  123. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  124. Francis II of France 1544 – 1560
  125. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  126. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  127. Mumtaz Mahal 1593 – 1631
  128. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  129. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  130. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  131. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  132. Michael Servetus 1511 – 1553
  133. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  134. Marie de' Medici 1575 – 1642
  135. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  136. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593
  137. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598
  138. Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor 1527 – 1576
  139. Christian IV of Denmark 1577 – 1648
  140. Anne of Cleves 1515 – 1557
  141. Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 – 1625
  142. George Herbert 1593 – 1633
  143. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556
  144. Bronzino 1503 – 1572
  145. Matteo Ricci 1552 – 1610
  146. Feodor I of Russia 1557 – 1598
  147. Elizabeth Báthory 1560 – 1614
  148. Luis de Góngora 1561 – 1627
  149. Vincent de Paul 1581 – 1660
  150. Georgius Agricola 1494 – 1555