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Piri Reis
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Piri Reis

Ottoman admiral and cartographer

Born c. 1470 · died 1553–1554
Also known as Hadji Muhammad, Muhiddin Piri

Who was alive at the same time as Piri Reis?

  1. Christopher Columbus, 1451 – 1506
  2. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  3. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  4. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  5. Piri Reis, c. 1470 – c. 1554
  6. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  7. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  8. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  9. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  10. Thomas More, c. 1478 – 1535
  11. Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1480 – 1521
  12. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  13. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  14. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  15. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  16. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  17. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  18. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  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 Piri Reis died, Pope Gregory XIII was 51 or 52.

Born during Piri Reis’s lifetime: Michelangelo, Martin Luther, Miguel de Cervantes, Nicolaus Copernicus, Ferdinand Magellan, Raphael, Elizabeth I and Hernán Cortés.

Not quite contemporaries: William Shakespeare was born about 9 years after Piri Reis died, Galileo Galilei was born about 9 years after Piri Reis died, Francis Bacon was born about 6 years after Piri Reis died and Lope de Vega was born about 7 years after Piri Reis died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

187 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Piri Reis. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1513.

  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. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  27. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  28. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  29. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  30. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  31. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  32. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  33. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  34. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  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. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  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. Vlad the Impaler c. 1430 – c. 1477
  60. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  61. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  62. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  63. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  64. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  65. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  66. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  67. Richard III of England 1452 – 1485
  68. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  69. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  70. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  71. Jami 1414 – 1492
  72. Lorenzo de' Medici 1449 – 1492
  73. Girolamo Savonarola 1452 – 1498
  74. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  75. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  76. Louis XI 1423 – 1483
  77. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  78. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  79. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  80. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  81. Pope Sixtus IV 1414 – 1484
  82. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  83. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  84. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  85. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  86. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  87. Pope Innocent VIII 1432 – 1492
  88. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  89. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  90. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  91. Bartolomeu Dias c. 1467 – 1500
  92. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  93. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  94. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  95. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  96. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  97. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  98. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  99. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  100. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  101. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  102. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  103. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  104. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  105. Lady Jane Grey 1537 – 1554
  106. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  107. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  108. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  109. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  110. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  111. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  112. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  113. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  114. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  115. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  116. Edward IV 1442 – 1483
  117. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 1463 – 1494
  118. Charles VIII of France 1470 – 1498
  119. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  120. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  121. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  122. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  123. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  124. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  125. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  126. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  127. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  128. Matthias Corvinus 1443 – 1490
  129. Domenico Ghirlandaio 1448 – 1494
  130. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  131. Marsilio Ficino 1433 – 1499
  132. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  133. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  134. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  135. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  136. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  137. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  138. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  139. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  140. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  141. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  142. Ali-Shir Nava'i 1441 – 1501
  143. John Cabot c. 1450 – c. 1498
  144. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  145. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  146. Francis II of France 1544 – 1560
  147. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  148. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  149. Piero della Francesca 1415 – 1492
  150. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520