Who Was Alive

Nicolaus Copernicus

Polish mathematician and astronomer

Born 19 February 1473 · died 24 May 1543, aged 70

Who was alive at the same time as Nicolaus Copernicus?

  1. Mehmed II
  2. Christopher Columbus
  3. Leonardo da Vinci
  4. Vasco da Gama
  5. Erasmus
  6. Niccolò Machiavelli
  7. Albrecht Dürer
  8. Nicolaus Copernicus
  9. Michelangelo
  10. Thomas More
  11. Ferdinand Magellan
  12. Raphael
  13. Martin Luther
  14. Hernán Cortés
  15. Mimar Sinan
  16. Jacques Cartier
  17. François Rabelais
  18. Suleiman the Magnificent
  19. Charles V
  20. Nostradamus
  21. John Calvin
  22. Michel de Montaigne
  23. Elizabeth I of England
  24. Akbar
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When Nicolaus Copernicus was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 20, Christopher Columbus was 21 or 22, Niccolò Machiavelli was 3, Albrecht Dürer was 1 and Erasmus was 6.

When Nicolaus Copernicus died, Michelangelo was 68, Martin Luther was 59, Elizabeth I of England was 9, Hernán Cortés was 57 or 58 and Akbar was under a year old.

Born during Nicolaus Copernicus’s lifetime: Michelangelo, Martin Luther, Ferdinand Magellan, Raphael, Elizabeth I of England, Hernán Cortés, Akbar and Jacques Cartier.

Not quite contemporaries: Miguel de Cervantes was born 2 years after Nicolaus Copernicus died, Johannes Gutenberg died 4 years before Nicolaus Copernicus was born, Giordano Bruno was born 5 years after Nicolaus Copernicus died and Tycho Brahe was born 3 years after Nicolaus Copernicus died.

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All 57 contemporaries we track

  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. Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480 – 1521
  7. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  8. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  9. Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603
  10. Vasco da Gama 1457–1469 – 1524
  11. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  12. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  13. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  14. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  15. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  16. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  17. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  18. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  19. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  20. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  21. Charles V 1500 – 1558
  22. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  23. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  24. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  25. Henry VIII of England 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 1524–1525 – 1580
  32. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  33. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  34. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  35. Babur 1483 – 1530
  36. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  37. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  38. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  39. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  40. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  41. Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  42. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  43. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  44. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  45. Julius II 1443 – 1513
  46. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  47. Edward VI of England 1537 – 1553
  48. Leo X 1475 – 1521
  49. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  50. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  51. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  52. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  53. Pieter Brueghel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  54. Vlad the Impaler 1428–1431 – 1476–1477
  55. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  56. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  57. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541