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Pope Paul IV
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Pope Paul IV

Catholic priest who served as Pope

Born 28 June 1476 · died 18 August 1559, aged 83
Also known as Paul IV, Paulus IV

Who was alive at the same time as Pope Paul IV?

  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. Pope Paul IV, 1476 – 1559
  11. Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1480 – 1521
  12. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  13. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  14. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  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 Paul IV was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 24, Michelangelo was 1, Christopher Columbus was 24 or 25, Niccolò Machiavelli was 7 and Nicolaus Copernicus was 3.

When Pope Paul IV died, Michelangelo was 84, Elizabeth I was 25, Akbar was 16, Suleiman the Magnificent was 64 and Giordano Bruno was 11.

Born during Pope Paul IV’s lifetime: Martin Luther, Miguel de Cervantes, Ferdinand Magellan, Raphael, Elizabeth I, Hernán Cortés, Akbar and Jacques Cartier.

Not quite contemporaries: William Shakespeare was born about 5 years after Pope Paul IV died, Galileo Galilei was born about 5 years after Pope Paul IV died, Francis Bacon was born about 2 years after Pope Paul IV died and Johannes Kepler was born about 13 years after Pope Paul IV died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

194 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Pope Paul IV. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1518.

  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. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  27. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  28. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  29. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  30. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  31. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  32. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  33. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  34. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  35. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  36. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  37. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  38. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  39. Babur 1483 – 1530
  40. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  41. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  42. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  43. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  44. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  45. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  46. Pope Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  47. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  48. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  49. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  50. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  51. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  52. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  53. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  54. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  55. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  56. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  57. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  58. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  59. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  60. Vlad the Impaler c. 1430 – c. 1477
  61. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  62. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  63. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  64. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  65. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  66. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  67. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  68. Richard III of England 1452 – 1485
  69. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  70. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  71. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  72. Jami 1414 – 1492
  73. Lorenzo de' Medici 1449 – 1492
  74. Girolamo Savonarola 1452 – 1498
  75. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  76. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  77. Louis XI 1423 – 1483
  78. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  79. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  80. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  81. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  82. Pope Sixtus IV 1414 – 1484
  83. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  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. Pope Innocent VIII 1432 – 1492
  90. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  91. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  92. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  93. Bartolomeu Dias c. 1467 – 1500
  94. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  95. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  96. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  97. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  98. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  99. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  100. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  101. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  102. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  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. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  109. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  110. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  111. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  112. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  113. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  114. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  115. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  116. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  117. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  118. Edward IV 1442 – 1483
  119. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 1463 – 1494
  120. Charles VIII of France 1470 – 1498
  121. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  122. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  123. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  124. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  125. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  126. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  127. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  128. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  129. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  130. Matthias Corvinus 1443 – 1490
  131. Domenico Ghirlandaio 1448 – 1494
  132. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  133. Marsilio Ficino 1433 – 1499
  134. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  135. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  136. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  137. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  138. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  139. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  140. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  141. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  142. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  143. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  144. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  145. Ali-Shir Nava'i 1441 – 1501
  146. John Cabot c. 1450 – c. 1498
  147. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  148. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  149. Francis II of France 1544 – 1560
  150. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515