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Pope Gregory XIV
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Pope Gregory XIV

Politician who served as Pope

Born 11 February 1535 · died 15–16 October 1591, aged 56
Also known as Gregory XIV, pape Grégoire XIV, Nicolaus Sfondratus

Who was alive at the same time as Pope Gregory XIV?

  1. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  2. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  3. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  4. Thomas More, c. 1478 – 1535
  5. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  6. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  7. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  8. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  9. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  10. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  11. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500 – 1558
  12. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564
  13. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  14. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  15. Pope Gregory XIV, 1535 – 1591
  16. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  17. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  18. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  19. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  20. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  21. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  22. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  23. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  24. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679

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When Pope Gregory XIV was born, Michelangelo was 59, Martin Luther was 51, Nicolaus Copernicus was 61, Elizabeth I was 1 and Hernán Cortés was 49 or 50.

When Pope Gregory XIV died, William Shakespeare was 27, Galileo Galilei was 27, Elizabeth I was 58, Francis Bacon was 30 and Johannes Kepler was 19.

Born during Pope Gregory XIV’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, Miguel de Cervantes, Francis Bacon, Johannes Kepler, Peter Paul Rubens, Akbar and Thomas Hobbes.

Not quite contemporaries: René Descartes was born about 5 years after Pope Gregory XIV died, Niccolò Machiavelli died about 8 years before Pope Gregory XIV was born, Rembrandt was born about 15 years after Pope Gregory XIV died and Ferdinand Magellan died about 14 years before Pope Gregory XIV was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

164 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Pope Gregory XIV. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1563.

  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. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  7. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  8. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  9. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  10. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  11. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  12. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  13. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  14. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  15. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  16. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  17. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  18. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  19. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  20. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  21. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  22. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  23. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  24. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  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. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  32. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  33. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  34. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  35. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  36. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  37. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  38. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  39. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  40. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  41. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  42. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  43. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  44. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  45. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  46. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  47. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  48. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  49. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  50. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  51. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  52. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  53. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  54. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  55. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  56. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  57. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  58. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  59. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  60. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  61. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  62. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  63. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  64. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  65. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  66. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  67. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  68. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  69. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  70. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  71. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  72. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  73. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  74. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  75. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  76. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  77. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  78. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  79. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  80. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  81. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  82. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  83. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  84. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  85. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  86. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  87. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  88. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  89. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  90. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  91. Lady Jane Grey 1537 – 1554
  92. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  93. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  94. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  95. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  96. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  97. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  98. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  99. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  100. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  101. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  102. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  103. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  104. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  105. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  106. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  107. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  108. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  109. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  110. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  111. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  112. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  113. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  114. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  115. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  116. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  117. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  118. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  119. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  120. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  121. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  122. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  123. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  124. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  125. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  126. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  127. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  128. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  129. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  130. Francis II of France 1544 – 1560
  131. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  132. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  133. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  134. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  135. James V 1512 – 1542
  136. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  137. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  138. Michael Servetus 1511 – 1553
  139. Catherine Howard 1524 – 1542
  140. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  141. Marie de' Medici 1575 – 1642
  142. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  143. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593
  144. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598
  145. Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor 1527 – 1576
  146. Christian IV of Denmark 1577 – 1648
  147. Anne of Cleves 1515 – 1557
  148. Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 – 1625
  149. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556
  150. Bronzino 1503 – 1572