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Oda Nobunaga
狩野宗秀 (Kanō Sōshū, 1551 - 1601), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Oda Nobunaga

Japanese daimyo

Born 23 June 1534 · died 21 June 1582 (Julian calendar), aged 47

Who was alive at the same time as Oda Nobunaga?

  1. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  2. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  3. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  4. Thomas More, c. 1478 – 1535
  5. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  6. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  7. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  8. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  9. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  10. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  11. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500 – 1558
  12. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564
  13. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  14. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  15. Oda Nobunaga, 1534 – 1582
  16. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  17. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  18. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  19. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  20. Lope de Vega, 1562 – 1635
  21. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  22. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  23. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  24. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640

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When Oda Nobunaga was born, Michelangelo was 59, Martin Luther was 50, Nicolaus Copernicus was 61, Elizabeth I was under a year old and Hernán Cortés was 48 or 49.

When Oda Nobunaga died, William Shakespeare was 18, Galileo Galilei was 18, Elizabeth I was 48, Francis Bacon was 21 and Johannes Kepler was 10.

Born during Oda Nobunaga’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, Miguel de Cervantes, Francis Bacon, Johannes Kepler, Peter Paul Rubens, Akbar and Giordano Bruno.

Not quite contemporaries: René Descartes was born about 14 years after Oda Nobunaga died, Niccolò Machiavelli died about 7 years before Oda Nobunaga was born, Ferdinand Magellan died about 13 years before Oda Nobunaga was born and Raphael died about 14 years before Oda Nobunaga was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

154 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Oda Nobunaga. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1558.

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  4. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  5. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  6. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  7. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  8. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  9. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  10. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  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. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  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. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  24. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  25. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  26. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  27. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  28. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  29. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  30. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  31. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  32. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  33. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  34. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  35. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  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. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  42. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  43. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  44. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  45. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  46. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  47. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  48. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  49. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  50. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  51. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  52. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  53. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  54. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  55. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  56. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  57. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  58. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  59. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  60. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  61. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  62. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  63. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  64. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  65. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  66. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  67. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  68. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  69. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  70. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  71. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  72. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  73. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  74. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  75. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  76. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  77. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  78. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  79. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  80. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  81. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  82. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  83. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  84. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  85. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  86. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  87. Lady Jane Grey 1537 – 1554
  88. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  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. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  111. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  112. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  113. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  114. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  115. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  116. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  117. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  118. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  119. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  120. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  121. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  122. Francis II of France 1544 – 1560
  123. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  124. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  125. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  126. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  127. James V 1512 – 1542
  128. Michael Servetus 1511 – 1553
  129. Catherine Howard 1524 – 1542
  130. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  131. Marie de' Medici 1575 – 1642
  132. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  133. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593
  134. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598
  135. Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor 1527 – 1576
  136. Christian IV of Denmark 1577 – 1648
  137. Anne of Cleves 1515 – 1557
  138. Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 – 1625
  139. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556
  140. Bronzino 1503 – 1572
  141. Matteo Ricci 1552 – 1610
  142. Feodor I of Russia 1557 – 1598
  143. Elizabeth Báthory 1560 – 1614
  144. Luis de Góngora 1561 – 1627
  145. Vincent de Paul 1581 – 1660
  146. Georgius Agricola 1494 – 1555
  147. Jane Seymour 1508 – 1537
  148. Piri Reis c. 1470 – c. 1554
  149. Charles IX of Sweden 1550 – 1611
  150. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 1486 – 1535