Who Was Alive
Paolo Veronese
Paolo Veronese, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Paolo Veronese

Venetian painter

Born 1528 · died 19 April 1588, aged 59 or 60
Also known as Paolo Caliati Veronese, Poul Veronese, Paolo Vironeus

Who was alive at the same time as Paolo Veronese?

  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. Paolo Veronese, 1528 – 1588
  14. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  15. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  16. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  17. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  18. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  19. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  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

Drag across the timeline, or use the arrow keys, to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Dashed lines mark world events. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Paolo Veronese was born, Michelangelo was 52 or 53, Martin Luther was 44 or 45, Nicolaus Copernicus was 54 or 55, Jacques Cartier was 36 or 37 and Erasmus was 61 or 62.

When Paolo Veronese died, William Shakespeare was 23 or 24, Galileo Galilei was 24, Elizabeth I was 54, Francis Bacon was 27 and Johannes Kepler was 16.

Born during Paolo Veronese’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, Miguel de Cervantes, Elizabeth I, Francis Bacon, Johannes Kepler, Peter Paul Rubens and Akbar.

Not quite contemporaries: Leonardo da Vinci died about 9 years before Paolo Veronese was born, René Descartes was born about 8 years after Paolo Veronese died, Niccolò Machiavelli died about a year before Paolo Veronese was born and Ferdinand Magellan died about 7 years before Paolo Veronese was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

167 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Paolo Veronese. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1559.

  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. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  15. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  16. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  17. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  18. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  19. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  20. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  21. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  22. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  23. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  24. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  25. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  26. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  27. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  28. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  29. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  30. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  31. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  32. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  33. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  34. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  35. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  36. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  37. Babur 1483 – 1530
  38. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  39. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  40. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  41. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  42. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  43. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  44. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  45. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  46. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  47. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  48. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  49. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  50. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  51. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  52. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  53. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  54. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  55. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  56. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  57. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  58. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  59. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  60. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  61. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  62. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  63. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  64. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  65. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  66. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  67. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  68. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  69. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  70. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  71. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  72. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  73. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  74. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  75. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  76. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  77. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  78. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  79. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  80. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  81. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  82. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  83. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  84. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  85. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  86. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  87. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  88. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  89. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  90. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  91. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  92. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  93. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  94. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  95. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  96. Lady Jane Grey 1537 – 1554
  97. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  98. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  99. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  100. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  101. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  102. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  103. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  104. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  105. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  106. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  107. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  108. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  109. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  110. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  111. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  112. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  113. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  114. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  115. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  116. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  117. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  118. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  119. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  120. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  121. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  122. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  123. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  124. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  125. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  126. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  127. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  128. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  129. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  130. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  131. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  132. Francis II of France 1544 – 1560
  133. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  134. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  135. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  136. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  137. James V 1512 – 1542
  138. Michael Servetus 1511 – 1553
  139. Catherine Howard 1524 – 1542
  140. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  141. Marie de' Medici 1575 – 1642
  142. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  143. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593
  144. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598
  145. Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor 1527 – 1576
  146. Christian IV of Denmark 1577 – 1648
  147. Anne of Cleves 1515 – 1557
  148. Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 – 1625
  149. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486 – 1534
  150. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556