Who Was Alive
Pope Clement VII
Sebastiano del Piombo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Pope Clement VII

Catholic priest who served as Pope

Born 26 May 1478 · died 25 September 1534, aged 56
Also known as Clement VII, Giulio de’ Medici, Clemens PP. VII

Who was alive at the same time as Pope Clement VII?

  1. Mehmed II, 1432 – 1481
  2. Christopher Columbus, 1451 – 1506
  3. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  4. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  5. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  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. Pope Clement VII, 1478 – 1534
  13. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  14. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  15. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  16. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  17. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  18. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  19. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  20. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500 – 1558
  21. Nostradamus, 1503 – 1566
  22. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564
  23. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  24. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603

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 Pope Clement VII was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 26, Michelangelo was 3, Christopher Columbus was 26 or 27, Niccolò Machiavelli was 9 and Nicolaus Copernicus was 5.

When Pope Clement VII died, Michelangelo was 59, Martin Luther was 50, Nicolaus Copernicus was 61, Elizabeth I was 1 and Hernán Cortés was 48 or 49.

Born during Pope Clement VII’s lifetime: Martin Luther, Raphael, Elizabeth I, Hernán Cortés, Jacques Cartier, Suleiman the Magnificent, Michel de Montaigne and Mimar Sinan.

Not quite contemporaries: Miguel de Cervantes was born about 11 years after Pope Clement VII died, Johannes Gutenberg died about 9 years before Pope Clement VII was born, Akbar was born about 8 years after Pope Clement VII died and Giordano Bruno was born about 14 years after Pope Clement VII died.

What happened in Pope Clement VII’s lifetime

Where Pope Clement VII’s contemporaries were born

Pope Clement VII is labelled; the others are the best-known people we track who lived at the same time. Each dot is a birthplace from Wikidata (77 of 81 placed); tap one to open that person.
Birthplaces as a list

Compare Pope Clement VII

The 150 best-known contemporaries

155 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Pope Clement VII. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1506.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1519
  2. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  3. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  4. Christopher Columbus 1451 – 1506
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  6. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  7. Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480 – 1521
  8. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  9. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  10. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  11. Vasco da Gama c. 1464 – 1524
  12. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  13. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  14. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  15. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  16. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  17. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  18. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  19. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  20. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  21. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  22. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  23. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  24. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  25. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  26. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  27. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  28. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  29. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  30. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  31. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  32. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  33. Babur 1483 – 1530
  34. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  35. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  36. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  37. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  38. Pope Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  39. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  40. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  41. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  42. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  43. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  44. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  45. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  46. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  47. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  48. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  49. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  50. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  51. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  52. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  53. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  54. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  55. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  56. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  57. Richard III of England 1452 – 1485
  58. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  59. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  60. Jami 1414 – 1492
  61. Lorenzo de' Medici 1449 – 1492
  62. Girolamo Savonarola 1452 – 1498
  63. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  64. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  65. Louis XI 1423 – 1483
  66. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  67. Pope Sixtus IV 1414 – 1484
  68. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  69. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  70. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  71. Pope Innocent VIII 1432 – 1492
  72. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  73. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  74. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  75. Bartolomeu Dias c. 1467 – 1500
  76. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  77. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  78. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  79. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  80. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  81. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  82. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  83. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  84. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  85. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  86. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  87. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  88. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  89. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  90. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  91. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  92. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  93. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  94. Edward IV 1442 – 1483
  95. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 1463 – 1494
  96. Charles VIII of France 1470 – 1498
  97. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  98. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  99. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  100. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  101. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  102. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  103. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  104. Matthias Corvinus 1443 – 1490
  105. Domenico Ghirlandaio 1448 – 1494
  106. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  107. Marsilio Ficino 1433 – 1499
  108. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  109. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  110. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  111. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  112. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  113. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  114. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  115. Ali-Shir Nava'i 1441 – 1501
  116. John Cabot c. 1450 – c. 1498
  117. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  118. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  119. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  120. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  121. Piero della Francesca 1415 – 1492
  122. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  123. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  124. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  125. James V 1512 – 1542
  126. Giorgione 1478 – 1510
  127. Michael Servetus 1511 – 1553
  128. Catherine Howard 1524 – 1542
  129. Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor 1415 – 1493
  130. Andrea del Verrocchio c. 1435 – 1488
  131. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  132. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593
  133. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598
  134. Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor 1527 – 1576
  135. Pietro Perugino 1448 – 1523
  136. Cesare Borgia 1475 – 1507
  137. Anne of Cleves 1515 – 1557
  138. Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 – 1625
  139. Juan Sebastián Elcano c. 1486 – 1526
  140. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486 – 1534
  141. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556
  142. Bronzino 1503 – 1572
  143. Juan Ponce de León 1460 – 1521
  144. Manuel I of Portugal 1469 – 1521
  145. Georgius Agricola 1494 – 1555
  146. Jane Seymour 1508 – 1537
  147. Piri Reis c. 1470 – c. 1554
  148. Christian I of Denmark 1426 – 1481
  149. Vasco Núñez de Balboa c. 1475 – 1519
  150. James IV 1473 – 1513