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Pierre de Ronsard
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Pierre de Ronsard

French poet

Born 11 September 1524 · died 27 December 1585, aged 61
Also known as Pierre Ronsard

Who was alive at the same time as Pierre de Ronsard?

  1. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  2. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  3. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  4. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  5. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  6. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  7. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  8. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  9. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  10. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  11. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  12. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  13. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564
  14. Pierre de Ronsard, 1524 – 1585
  15. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  16. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  17. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  18. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  19. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  20. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  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 Pierre de Ronsard was born, Michelangelo was 49, Martin Luther was 40, Niccolò Machiavelli was 55, Nicolaus Copernicus was 51 and Albrecht Dürer was 53.

When Pierre de Ronsard died, William Shakespeare was 21, Galileo Galilei was 21, Elizabeth I was 52, Francis Bacon was 24 and Johannes Kepler was 13.

Born during Pierre de Ronsard’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 5 years before Pierre de Ronsard was born, René Descartes was born about 11 years after Pierre de Ronsard died, Ferdinand Magellan died about 3 years before Pierre de Ronsard was born and Raphael died about 4 years before Pierre de Ronsard was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

170 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Pierre de Ronsard. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1555.

  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. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  7. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  8. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  9. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  10. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  11. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  12. Vasco da Gama c. 1464 – 1524
  13. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  14. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  15. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  16. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  17. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  18. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  19. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  20. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  21. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  22. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  23. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  24. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  25. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  26. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  27. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  28. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  29. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  30. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  31. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  32. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  33. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  34. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  35. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  36. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  37. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  38. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  39. Babur 1483 – 1530
  40. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  41. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  42. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  43. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  44. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  45. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  46. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  47. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  48. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  49. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  50. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  51. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  52. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  53. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  54. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  55. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  56. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  57. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  58. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  59. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  60. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  61. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  62. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  63. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  64. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  65. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  66. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  67. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  68. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  69. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  70. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  71. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  72. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  73. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  74. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  75. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  76. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  77. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  78. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  79. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  80. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  81. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  82. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  83. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  84. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  85. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  86. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  87. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  88. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  89. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  90. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  91. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  92. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  93. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  94. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  95. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  96. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  97. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  98. Lady Jane Grey 1537 – 1554
  99. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  100. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  101. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  102. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  103. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  104. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  105. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  106. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  107. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  108. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  109. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  110. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  111. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  112. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  113. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  114. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  115. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  116. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  117. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  118. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  119. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  120. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  121. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  122. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  123. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  124. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  125. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  126. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  127. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  128. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  129. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  130. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  131. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  132. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  133. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  134. Francis II of France 1544 – 1560
  135. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  136. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  137. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  138. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  139. James V 1512 – 1542
  140. Michael Servetus 1511 – 1553
  141. Catherine Howard 1524 – 1542
  142. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  143. Marie de' Medici 1575 – 1642
  144. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  145. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593
  146. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598
  147. Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor 1527 – 1576
  148. Christian IV of Denmark 1577 – 1648
  149. Anne of Cleves 1515 – 1557
  150. Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 – 1625