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Pope Julius III
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Pope Julius III

Catholic priest who served as Pope

Born 10 September 1487 · died 23 March 1555, aged 67
Also known as Julius III

Who was alive at the same time as Pope Julius III?

  1. Christopher Columbus, 1451 – 1506
  2. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  3. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  4. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  6. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  7. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  8. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  9. Thomas More, c. 1478 – 1535
  10. Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1480 – 1521
  11. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  12. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  13. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  14. Pope Julius III, 1487 – 1555
  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 Pope Julius III was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 35, Michelangelo was 12, Martin Luther was 3, Christopher Columbus was 35 or 36 and Niccolò Machiavelli was 18.

When Pope Julius III died, Michelangelo was 80, Elizabeth I was 21, Akbar was 12, Jacques Cartier was 63 and Suleiman the Magnificent was 60.

Born during Pope Julius III’s lifetime: Miguel de Cervantes, Elizabeth I, Akbar, Jacques Cartier, Suleiman the Magnificent, Giordano Bruno, Michel de Montaigne and Mimar Sinan.

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

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

185 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Pope Julius III. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1521.

  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. 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. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  32. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  33. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  34. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  35. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  36. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  37. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  38. Babur 1483 – 1530
  39. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  40. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  41. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  42. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  43. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  44. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  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. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  60. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  61. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  62. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  63. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  64. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  65. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  66. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  67. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  68. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  69. Jami 1414 – 1492
  70. Lorenzo de' Medici 1449 – 1492
  71. Girolamo Savonarola 1452 – 1498
  72. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  73. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  74. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  75. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  76. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  77. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  78. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  79. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  80. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  81. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  82. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  83. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  84. Pope Innocent VIII 1432 – 1492
  85. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  86. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  87. Bartolomeu Dias c. 1467 – 1500
  88. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  89. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  90. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  91. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  92. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  93. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  94. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  95. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  96. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  97. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  98. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  99. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  100. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  101. Lady Jane Grey 1537 – 1554
  102. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  103. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  104. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  105. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  106. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  107. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  108. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  109. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  110. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  111. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  112. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  113. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 1463 – 1494
  114. Charles VIII of France 1470 – 1498
  115. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  116. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  117. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  118. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  119. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  120. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  121. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  122. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  123. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  124. Matthias Corvinus 1443 – 1490
  125. Domenico Ghirlandaio 1448 – 1494
  126. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  127. Marsilio Ficino 1433 – 1499
  128. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  129. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  130. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  131. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  132. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  133. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  134. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  135. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  136. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  137. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  138. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  139. Ali-Shir Nava'i 1441 – 1501
  140. John Cabot c. 1450 – c. 1498
  141. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  142. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  143. Francis II of France 1544 – 1560
  144. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  145. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  146. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  147. Piero della Francesca 1415 – 1492
  148. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  149. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  150. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572