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Pope Sixtus IV
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Pope Sixtus IV

Catholic priest who served as Pope

Born 21 July 1414 · died 12 August 1484, aged 70
Also known as Sixtus IV

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

  1. Jan Hus, c. 1375 – 1415
  2. Zheng He, 1371 – c. 1435
  3. Donatello, c. 1386 – 1466
  4. Johannes Gutenberg, c. 1400 – 1468
  5. Joan of Arc, c. 1412 – 1431
  6. Pope Sixtus IV, 1414 – 1484
  7. Pope Alexander VI, c. 1431 – 1503
  8. Mehmed II, 1432 – 1481
  9. Sandro Botticelli, c. 1445 – 1510
  10. Christopher Columbus, 1451 – 1506
  11. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  12. Amerigo Vespucci, 1454 – 1512
  13. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  14. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  15. Guru Nanak, 1469 – 1539
  16. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  17. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  18. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  19. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  20. Thomas More, c. 1478 – 1535
  21. Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1480 – 1521
  22. Babur, 1483 – 1530
  23. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  24. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546

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When Pope Sixtus IV was born, Zheng He was 42 or 43, Pope Pius II was 8, Leon Battista Alberti was 10, Pope Callixtus III was 35 and Henry V of England was 27.

When Pope Sixtus IV died, Leonardo da Vinci was 32, Michelangelo was 9, Martin Luther was under a year old, Christopher Columbus was 32 or 33 and Niccolò Machiavelli was 15.

Born during Pope Sixtus IV’s lifetime: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Martin Luther, Christopher Columbus, Niccolò Machiavelli, Nicolaus Copernicus, Ferdinand Magellan and Raphael.

Not quite contemporaries: Geoffrey Chaucer died about 12 years before Pope Sixtus IV was born, Hernán Cortés was born about a year after Pope Sixtus IV died, Ibn Khaldun died about 8 years before Pope Sixtus IV was born and Jacques Cartier was born about 8 years after Pope Sixtus IV died.

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The 119 best-known contemporaries

119 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Pope Sixtus IV. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1449.

  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. Joan of Arc c. 1412 – 1431
  9. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  10. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  11. Vasco da Gama c. 1464 – 1524
  12. Johannes Gutenberg c. 1400 – 1468
  13. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  14. Zheng He 1371 – c. 1435
  15. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  16. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  17. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  18. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  19. Donatello c. 1386 – 1466
  20. Babur 1483 – 1530
  21. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  22. Jan Hus c. 1375 – 1415
  23. Pope Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  24. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  25. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  26. François Villon 1431 – 1463
  27. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  28. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  29. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  30. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  31. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  32. Vlad the Impaler c. 1430 – c. 1477
  33. Pope Pius II 1405 – 1464
  34. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  35. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  36. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  37. Leon Battista Alberti 1404 – 1472
  38. Richard III of England 1452 – 1485
  39. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  40. Pope Callixtus III 1379 – 1458
  41. Henry V of England 1386 – 1422
  42. Jan van Eyck c. 1390 – 1441
  43. Jami 1414 – 1492
  44. Lorenzo de' Medici 1449 – 1492
  45. Girolamo Savonarola 1452 – 1498
  46. Pope Eugene IV 1383 – 1447
  47. Pope Nicholas V c. 1397 – 1455
  48. Louis XI 1423 – 1483
  49. Skanderbeg 1405 – 1468
  50. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  51. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  52. Nicholas of Cusa 1401 – 1464
  53. Pope Innocent VIII 1432 – 1492
  54. Pope Paul II 1417 – 1471
  55. Bartolomeu Dias c. 1467 – 1500
  56. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  57. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  58. Pope Martin V c. 1369 – 1431
  59. Murad II 1404 – 1451
  60. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  61. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  62. Christine de Pizan 1364 – 1430
  63. Charles VI of France 1368 – 1422
  64. Masaccio 1401 – 1428
  65. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  66. Ulugh Beg 1394 – 1449
  67. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  68. Thomas à Kempis c. 1381 – 1471
  69. Charles VII of France 1403 – 1461
  70. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  71. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  72. Fra Angelico c. 1396 – 1455
  73. Sejong the Great 1397 – 1450
  74. Edward IV 1442 – 1483
  75. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 1463 – 1494
  76. Charles VIII of France 1470 – 1498
  77. Pope Gregory XII c. 1335 – 1417
  78. Władysław II Jagiełło 1362 – 1434
  79. Constantine XI Palaiologos 1404 – 1453
  80. Henry VI of England 1421 – 1471
  81. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  82. Mehmed I 1386 – 1421
  83. Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor 1368 – 1437
  84. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  85. Matthias Corvinus 1443 – 1490
  86. Domenico Ghirlandaio 1448 – 1494
  87. Marsilio Ficino 1433 – 1499
  88. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  89. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  90. Andrei Rublev 1360s – 1430
  91. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  92. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  93. Ali-Shir Nava'i 1441 – 1501
  94. John Cabot c. 1450 – c. 1498
  95. Filippo Brunelleschi 1377 – 1446
  96. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  97. Piero della Francesca 1415 – 1492
  98. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  99. Prince Henry the Navigator 1394 – 1460
  100. Giorgione 1478 – 1510
  101. Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor 1415 – 1493
  102. Andrea del Verrocchio c. 1435 – 1488
  103. Charles the Bold 1433 – 1477
  104. Pietro Perugino 1448 – 1523
  105. Cesare Borgia 1475 – 1507
  106. Zeami Motokiyo c. 1363 – 1443
  107. Juan Ponce de León 1460 – 1521
  108. Manuel I of Portugal 1469 – 1521
  109. James I of Scotland 1394 – 1437
  110. Piri Reis c. 1470 – c. 1554
  111. Manuel II Palaiologos 1350 – 1425
  112. Cosimo de' Medici 1389 – 1464
  113. Rogier van der Weyden c. 1396 – 1464
  114. Christian I of Denmark 1426 – 1481
  115. Vasco Núñez de Balboa c. 1475 – 1519
  116. James IV 1473 – 1513
  117. Baldassare Castiglione 1478 – 1529
  118. Vasili III of Russia 1479 – 1533
  119. Lorenzo Valla 1407 – 1457