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Philip Sidney
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Philip Sidney

English poet and diplomat

Born 30 November 1554 · died 17 October 1586, aged 31
Also known as Sir Philip Sidney

Who was alive at the same time as Philip Sidney?

  1. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  2. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  3. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  4. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  5. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500 – 1558
  6. Nostradamus, 1503 – 1566
  7. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564
  8. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, 1525 – 1594
  9. Ivan the Terrible, 1530 – 1584
  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. Tycho Brahe, 1546 – 1601
  16. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  17. Philip Sidney, 1554 – 1586
  18. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  19. Lope de Vega, 1562 – 1635
  20. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  21. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  22. Caravaggio, 1571 – 1610
  23. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  24. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640

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When Philip Sidney was born, Michelangelo was 79, Elizabeth I was 21, Akbar was 12, Jacques Cartier was 62 and Suleiman the Magnificent was 60.

When Philip Sidney died, William Shakespeare was 22, Galileo Galilei was 22, Elizabeth I was 53, Francis Bacon was 25 and Johannes Kepler was 14.

Born during Philip Sidney’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, Francis Bacon, Johannes Kepler, Peter Paul Rubens, Lope de Vega, Caravaggio and Cardinal Richelieu.

Not quite contemporaries: Martin Luther died about 8 years before Philip Sidney was born, René Descartes was born about 10 years after Philip Sidney died, Nicolaus Copernicus died about 11 years before Philip Sidney was born and Hernán Cortés died about 7 years before Philip Sidney was born.

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The 131 best-known contemporaries

131 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Philip Sidney. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1570.

  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. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  10. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  11. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  12. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  13. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  14. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  15. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  16. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  17. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  18. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  19. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  20. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  21. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  22. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  23. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  24. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  25. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  26. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  27. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  28. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  29. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  30. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  31. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  32. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  33. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  34. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  35. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  36. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  37. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  38. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  39. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  40. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  41. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  42. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  43. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  44. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  45. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  46. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  47. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  48. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  49. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  50. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  51. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  52. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  53. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  54. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  55. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  56. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  57. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  58. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  59. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  60. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  61. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  62. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  63. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  64. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  65. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  66. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  67. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  68. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  69. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  70. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  71. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  72. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  73. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  74. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  75. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  76. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  77. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  78. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  79. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  80. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  81. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  82. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  83. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  84. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  85. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  86. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  87. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  88. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  89. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  90. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  91. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  92. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  93. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  94. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  95. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  96. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  97. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  98. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  99. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  100. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  101. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  102. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  103. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  104. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  105. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  106. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  107. Francis II of France 1544 – 1560
  108. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  109. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  110. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  111. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  112. Marie de' Medici 1575 – 1642
  113. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  114. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593
  115. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598
  116. Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor 1527 – 1576
  117. Christian IV of Denmark 1577 – 1648
  118. Anne of Cleves 1515 – 1557
  119. Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 – 1625
  120. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556
  121. Bronzino 1503 – 1572
  122. Matteo Ricci 1552 – 1610
  123. Feodor I of Russia 1557 – 1598
  124. Elizabeth Báthory 1560 – 1614
  125. Luis de Góngora 1561 – 1627
  126. Vincent de Paul 1581 – 1660
  127. Georgius Agricola 1494 – 1555
  128. Charles IX of Sweden 1550 – 1611
  129. Jean Bodin 1530 – 1596
  130. Joseph of Anchieta 1534 – 1597
  131. Tomás Luis de Victoria c. 1548 – 1611