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Pope Innocent VIII
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Pope Innocent VIII

Catholic priest who served as Pope

Born 1432 · died 25 July 1492, aged 59 or 60
Also known as Innocent VIII, Innocentius PP. VIII, Innocentius VIII

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

  1. Zheng He, 1371 – c. 1435
  2. Donatello, c. 1386 – 1466
  3. Johannes Gutenberg, c. 1400 – 1468
  4. Pope Innocent VIII, 1432 – 1492
  5. Mehmed II, 1432 – 1481
  6. Sandro Botticelli, c. 1445 – 1510
  7. Christopher Columbus, 1451 – 1506
  8. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  9. Amerigo Vespucci, 1454 – 1512
  10. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  11. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  12. Guru Nanak, 1469 – 1539
  13. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  14. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  15. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  16. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  17. Thomas More, c. 1478 – 1535
  18. Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1480 – 1521
  19. Babur, 1483 – 1530
  20. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  21. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  22. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  23. Henry VIII, 1491 – 1547
  24. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557

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When Pope Innocent VIII was born, François Villon was about a year old, Pope Pius II was 26 or 27, Leon Battista Alberti was 27 or 28, Pope Callixtus III was 52 or 53 and Jami was 17 or 18.

When Pope Innocent VIII died, Leonardo da Vinci was 40, Michelangelo was 17, Martin Luther was 8, Christopher Columbus was 40 or 41 and Niccolò Machiavelli was 23.

Born during Pope Innocent VIII’s lifetime: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Martin Luther, Christopher Columbus, Niccolò Machiavelli, Nicolaus Copernicus, Ferdinand Magellan and Raphael.

Not quite contemporaries: Joan of Arc died about a year before Pope Innocent VIII was born, Suleiman the Magnificent was born about 2 years after Pope Innocent VIII died, François Rabelais was born about 2 years after Pope Innocent VIII died and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor was born about 8 years after Pope Innocent VIII died.

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The 120 best-known contemporaries

120 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Pope Innocent VIII. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1463.

  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. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  10. Vasco da Gama c. 1464 – 1524
  11. Johannes Gutenberg c. 1400 – 1468
  12. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  13. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  14. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  15. Zheng He 1371 – c. 1435
  16. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  17. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  18. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  19. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  20. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  21. Donatello c. 1386 – 1466
  22. Babur 1483 – 1530
  23. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  24. Pope Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  25. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  26. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  27. François Villon 1431 – 1463
  28. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  29. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  30. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  31. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  32. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  33. Vlad the Impaler c. 1430 – c. 1477
  34. Pope Pius II 1405 – 1464
  35. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  36. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  37. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  38. Leon Battista Alberti 1404 – 1472
  39. Richard III of England 1452 – 1485
  40. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  41. Pope Callixtus III 1379 – 1458
  42. Jan van Eyck c. 1390 – 1441
  43. Jami 1414 – 1492
  44. Lorenzo de' Medici 1449 – 1492
  45. Girolamo Savonarola 1452 – 1498
  46. Pope Eugene IV 1383 – 1447
  47. Pope Nicholas V c. 1397 – 1455
  48. Louis XI 1423 – 1483
  49. Skanderbeg 1405 – 1468
  50. Pope Sixtus IV 1414 – 1484
  51. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  52. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  53. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  54. Nicholas of Cusa 1401 – 1464
  55. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  56. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  57. Pope Paul II 1417 – 1471
  58. Bartolomeu Dias c. 1467 – 1500
  59. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  60. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  61. Murad II 1404 – 1451
  62. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  63. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  64. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  65. Ulugh Beg 1394 – 1449
  66. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  67. Thomas à Kempis c. 1381 – 1471
  68. Charles VII of France 1403 – 1461
  69. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  70. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  71. Fra Angelico c. 1396 – 1455
  72. Sejong the Great 1397 – 1450
  73. Edward IV 1442 – 1483
  74. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 1463 – 1494
  75. Charles VIII of France 1470 – 1498
  76. Władysław II Jagiełło 1362 – 1434
  77. Constantine XI Palaiologos 1404 – 1453
  78. Henry VI of England 1421 – 1471
  79. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  80. Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor 1368 – 1437
  81. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  82. Matthias Corvinus 1443 – 1490
  83. Domenico Ghirlandaio 1448 – 1494
  84. Marsilio Ficino 1433 – 1499
  85. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  86. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  87. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  88. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  89. Ali-Shir Nava'i 1441 – 1501
  90. John Cabot c. 1450 – c. 1498
  91. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  92. Filippo Brunelleschi 1377 – 1446
  93. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  94. Piero della Francesca 1415 – 1492
  95. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  96. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  97. Prince Henry the Navigator 1394 – 1460
  98. Giorgione 1478 – 1510
  99. Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor 1415 – 1493
  100. Andrea del Verrocchio c. 1435 – 1488
  101. Charles the Bold 1433 – 1477
  102. Pietro Perugino 1448 – 1523
  103. Cesare Borgia 1475 – 1507
  104. Zeami Motokiyo c. 1363 – 1443
  105. Juan Sebastián Elcano c. 1486 – 1526
  106. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486 – 1534
  107. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556
  108. Juan Ponce de León 1460 – 1521
  109. Manuel I of Portugal 1469 – 1521
  110. James I of Scotland 1394 – 1437
  111. Piri Reis c. 1470 – c. 1554
  112. Cosimo de' Medici 1389 – 1464
  113. Rogier van der Weyden c. 1396 – 1464
  114. Christian I of Denmark 1426 – 1481
  115. Vasco Núñez de Balboa c. 1475 – 1519
  116. James IV 1473 – 1513
  117. Baldassare Castiglione 1478 – 1529
  118. Vasili III of Russia 1479 – 1533
  119. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 1486 – 1535
  120. Lorenzo Valla 1407 – 1457