Who Was Alive

Pius V

16th‑century Italian pope and Catholic saint, leading Counter‑Reformation reformer

Born 17 January 1504 · died 1 May 1572, aged 68

Who was alive at the same time as Pius V?

  1. Christopher Columbus
  2. Leonardo da Vinci
  3. Vasco da Gama
  4. Erasmus
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli
  6. Albrecht Dürer
  7. Nicolaus Copernicus
  8. Michelangelo
  9. Ferdinand Magellan
  10. Raphael
  11. Martin Luther
  12. Hernán Cortés
  13. Jacques Cartier
  14. Suleiman the Magnificent
  15. Pius V
  16. Michel de Montaigne
  17. Elizabeth I of England
  18. Akbar
  19. Miguel de Cervantes
  20. Giordano Bruno
  21. Francis Bacon
  22. Galileo Galilei
  23. William Shakespeare
  24. Johannes Kepler
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Pius V was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 51, Michelangelo was 28, Martin Luther was 20, Christopher Columbus was 52 or 53 and Niccolò Machiavelli was 34.

When Pius V died, William Shakespeare was 8, Galileo Galilei was 8, Francis Bacon was 11, Elizabeth I of England was 38 and Johannes Kepler was under a year old.

Born during Pius V’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, Miguel de Cervantes, Francis Bacon, Elizabeth I of England, Johannes Kepler, Akbar and Giordano Bruno.

Not quite contemporaries: Peter Paul Rubens was born 5 years after Pius V died, Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu was born 13 years after Pius V died, Alexander VI died about a year before Pius V was born and William Harvey was born 6 years after Pius V died.

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All 68 contemporaries we track

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1519
  3. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  4. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  5. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  6. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  7. Christopher Columbus 1451 – 1506
  8. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  9. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  10. Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480 – 1521
  11. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  12. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  13. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  14. Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603
  15. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  16. Vasco da Gama 1457–1469 – 1524
  17. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  18. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  19. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  20. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  21. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  22. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  23. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  24. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  25. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  26. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  27. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  28. Charles V 1500 – 1558
  29. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  30. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  31. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  32. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  33. Henry VIII of England 1491 – 1547
  34. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  35. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  36. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  37. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  38. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  39. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  40. Luís de Camões 1524–1525 – 1580
  41. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  42. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  43. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  44. Babur 1483 – 1530
  45. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  46. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  47. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  48. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  49. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  50. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  51. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  52. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  53. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  54. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  55. Julius II 1443 – 1513
  56. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  57. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  58. Edward VI of England 1537 – 1553
  59. Leo X 1475 – 1521
  60. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  61. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  62. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  63. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  64. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  65. Pieter Brueghel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  66. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  67. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  68. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644