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Pope Leo XI
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Pope Leo XI

Catholic priest who served as Pope

Born 2 June 1535 · died 27 April 1605, aged 69
Also known as Leo XI, Leo XI. Papst, papa Leone XI

Who was alive at the same time as Pope Leo XI?

  1. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  2. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  3. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  4. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  5. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  6. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  7. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  8. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  9. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  10. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564
  11. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  12. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  13. Pope Leo XI, 1535 – 1605
  14. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  15. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  16. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  17. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  18. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  19. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  20. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  21. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  22. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  23. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  24. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660

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When Pope Leo XI was born, Michelangelo was 60, Martin Luther was 51, Nicolaus Copernicus was 62, Elizabeth I was 1 and Hernán Cortés was 49 or 50.

When Pope Leo XI died, William Shakespeare was 40 or 41, Galileo Galilei was 41, René Descartes was 9, Francis Bacon was 44 and Johannes Kepler was 33.

Born during Pope Leo XI’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, René Descartes, Miguel de Cervantes, Francis Bacon, Johannes Kepler, Peter Paul Rubens and Akbar.

Not quite contemporaries: Niccolò Machiavelli died about 8 years before Pope Leo XI was born, Rembrandt was born about a year after Pope Leo XI died, Ferdinand Magellan died about 14 years before Pope Leo XI was born and Albrecht Dürer died about 7 years before Pope Leo XI was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

193 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Pope Leo XI. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1570.

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  4. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  5. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  6. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  7. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  8. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  9. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  10. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  11. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  12. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  13. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  14. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  15. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  16. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  17. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  18. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  19. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  20. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  21. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  22. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  23. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  24. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  25. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  26. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  27. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  28. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  29. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  30. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  31. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  32. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  33. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  34. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  35. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  36. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  37. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  38. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  39. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  40. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  41. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  42. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  43. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  44. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  45. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  46. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  47. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  48. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  49. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  50. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  51. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  52. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  53. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  54. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  55. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  56. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  57. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  58. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  59. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  60. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  61. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  62. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  63. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  64. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  65. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  66. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  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. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  77. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  78. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  79. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  80. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  81. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  82. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  83. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  84. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  85. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  86. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  87. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  88. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  89. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  90. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  91. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  92. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  93. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  94. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  95. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  96. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  97. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  98. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  99. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  100. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  101. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  102. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  103. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  104. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  105. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  106. Lady Jane Grey 1537 – 1554
  107. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  108. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  109. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  110. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  111. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  112. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  113. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  114. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  115. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  116. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  117. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  118. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  119. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  120. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  121. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  122. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  123. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  124. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  125. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  126. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  127. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  128. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  129. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  130. Osman II 1604 – 1622
  131. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  132. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  133. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  134. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  135. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  136. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  137. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  138. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  139. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  140. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  141. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  142. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  143. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  144. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  145. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  146. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  147. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  148. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  149. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  150. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637