Who Was Alive

Leo X

Pope from 1513 to 1521

Born 11 December 1475 · died 1 December 1521, aged 45

Who was alive at the same time as Leo X?

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When Leo X was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 23, Michelangelo was under a year old, Christopher Columbus was 23 or 24, Niccolò Machiavelli was 6 and Nicolaus Copernicus was 2.

When Leo X died, Michelangelo was 46, Martin Luther was 38, Niccolò Machiavelli was 52, Nicolaus Copernicus was 48 and Albrecht Dürer was 50.

Born during Leo X’s lifetime: Martin Luther, Ferdinand Magellan, Raphael, Hernán Cortés, Jacques Cartier, Suleiman the Magnificent, Mimar Sinan and John Calvin.

Not quite contemporaries: Elizabeth I of England was born 12 years after Leo X died, Johannes Gutenberg died 6 years before Leo X was born, Michel de Montaigne was born 12 years after Leo X died and Ivan the Terrible was born 9 years after Leo X died.

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All 45 contemporaries we track

  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 1457–1469 – 1524
  11. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  12. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  13. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  14. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  15. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  16. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  17. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  18. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  19. Charles V 1500 – 1558
  20. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  21. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  22. Henry VIII of England 1491 – 1547
  23. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  24. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  25. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  26. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  27. Babur 1483 – 1530
  28. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  29. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  30. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  31. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  32. Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  33. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  34. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  35. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  36. Julius II 1443 – 1513
  37. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  38. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  39. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  40. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  41. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  42. Vlad the Impaler 1428–1431 – 1476–1477
  43. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  44. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  45. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541