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Philipp Melanchthon
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Philipp Melanchthon

German reformer

Born 16 February 1497 · died 19 April 1560, aged 63
Also known as Philipp Schwartzerdt

Who was alive at the same time as Philipp Melanchthon?

  1. Christopher Columbus, 1451 – 1506
  2. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  3. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  4. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  6. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  7. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  8. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  9. Thomas More, c. 1478 – 1535
  10. Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1480 – 1521
  11. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  12. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  13. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  14. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  15. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  16. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  17. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  18. Philipp Melanchthon, 1497 – 1560
  19. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564
  20. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  21. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  22. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  23. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  24. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600

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When Philipp Melanchthon was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 44, Michelangelo was 21, Martin Luther was 13, Christopher Columbus was 45 or 46 and Niccolò Machiavelli was 27.

When Philipp Melanchthon died, Michelangelo was 85, Elizabeth I was 26, Akbar was 17, Suleiman the Magnificent was 65 and Giordano Bruno was 12.

Born during Philipp Melanchthon’s lifetime: Miguel de Cervantes, Elizabeth I, Akbar, Giordano Bruno, Michel de Montaigne, John Calvin, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and Tycho Brahe.

Not quite contemporaries: William Shakespeare was born about 4 years after Philipp Melanchthon died, Galileo Galilei was born about 4 years after Philipp Melanchthon died, Francis Bacon was born about a year after Philipp Melanchthon died and Johannes Kepler was born about 12 years after Philipp Melanchthon died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

176 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Philipp Melanchthon. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1529.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1519
  2. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  3. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  4. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  5. Christopher Columbus 1451 – 1506
  6. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  7. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  8. Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480 – 1521
  9. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  10. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  11. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  12. Vasco da Gama c. 1464 – 1524
  13. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  14. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  15. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  16. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  17. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  18. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  19. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  20. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  21. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  22. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  23. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  24. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  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. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  32. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  33. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  34. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  35. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  36. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  37. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  38. Babur 1483 – 1530
  39. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  40. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  41. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  42. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  43. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  44. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  45. Pope Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  46. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  47. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  48. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  49. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  50. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  51. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  52. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  53. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  54. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  55. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  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. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  61. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  62. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  63. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  64. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  65. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  66. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  67. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  68. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  69. Girolamo Savonarola 1452 – 1498
  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. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  77. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  78. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  79. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  80. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  81. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  82. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  83. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  84. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  85. Bartolomeu Dias c. 1467 – 1500
  86. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  87. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  88. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  89. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  90. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  91. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  92. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  93. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  94. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  95. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  96. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  97. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  98. Lady Jane Grey 1537 – 1554
  99. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  100. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  101. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  102. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  103. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  104. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  105. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  106. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  107. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  108. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  109. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  110. Charles VIII of France 1470 – 1498
  111. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  112. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  113. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  114. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  115. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  116. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  117. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  118. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  119. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  120. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  121. Marsilio Ficino 1433 – 1499
  122. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  123. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  124. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  125. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  126. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  127. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  128. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  129. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  130. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  131. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  132. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  133. Ali-Shir Nava'i 1441 – 1501
  134. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  135. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  136. Francis II of France 1544 – 1560
  137. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  138. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  139. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  140. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  141. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  142. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  143. James V 1512 – 1542
  144. Giorgione 1478 – 1510
  145. Michael Servetus 1511 – 1553
  146. Catherine Howard 1524 – 1542
  147. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  148. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  149. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593
  150. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598