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Pope Innocent IX
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Pope Innocent IX

Catholic priest who served as Pope

Born 20 July 1519 · died 30 December 1591, aged 72
Also known as Innocent IX, Innocentius PP. IX, Innozenz IX. Papst

Who was alive at the same time as Pope Innocent IX?

  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. Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1480 – 1521
  8. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  9. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  10. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  11. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  12. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  13. Pope Innocent IX, 1519 – 1591
  14. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  15. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  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 Innocent IX was born, Michelangelo was 44, Martin Luther was 35, Niccolò Machiavelli was 50, Nicolaus Copernicus was 46 and Raphael was 36.

When Pope Innocent IX 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 Innocent IX’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 months before Pope Innocent IX was born, René Descartes was born about 5 years after Pope Innocent IX died, Christopher Columbus died about 13 years before Pope Innocent IX was born and Rembrandt was born about 15 years after Pope Innocent IX died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

186 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Pope Innocent IX. 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. Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480 – 1521
  9. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  10. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  11. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  12. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  13. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  14. Vasco da Gama c. 1464 – 1524
  15. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  16. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  17. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  18. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  19. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  20. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  21. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  22. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  23. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  24. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  25. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  26. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  27. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  28. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  29. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  30. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  31. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  32. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  33. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  34. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  35. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  36. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  37. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  38. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  39. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  40. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  41. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  42. Babur 1483 – 1530
  43. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  44. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  45. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  46. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  47. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  48. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  49. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  50. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  51. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  52. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  53. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  54. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  55. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  56. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  57. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  58. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  59. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  60. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  61. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  62. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  63. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  64. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  65. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  66. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  67. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  68. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  69. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  70. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  71. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  72. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  73. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  74. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  75. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  76. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  77. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  78. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  79. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  80. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  81. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  82. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  83. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  84. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  85. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  86. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  87. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  88. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  89. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  90. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  91. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  92. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  93. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  94. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  95. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  96. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  97. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  98. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  99. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  100. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  101. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  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. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  108. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  109. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  110. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  111. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  112. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  113. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  114. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  115. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  116. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  117. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  118. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  119. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  120. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  121. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  122. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  123. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  124. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  125. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  126. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  127. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  128. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  129. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  130. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  131. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  132. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  133. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  134. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  135. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  136. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  137. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  138. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  139. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  140. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  141. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  142. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  143. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  144. Francis II of France 1544 – 1560
  145. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  146. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  147. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  148. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  149. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  150. James V 1512 – 1542