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Pope Sixtus V
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Pope Sixtus V

Catholic priest who served as Pope

Born 13 December 1521 · died 27 August 1590, aged 68
Also known as Sixtus V, Felice Peretti di Montalto, Papa Sixto V

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

  1. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  2. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  3. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  4. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  5. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  6. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  7. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  8. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  9. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  10. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  11. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  12. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564
  13. Pope Sixtus V, 1521 – 1590
  14. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  15. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  16. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  17. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  18. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  19. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  20. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  21. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  22. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  23. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  24. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679

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When Pope Sixtus V was born, Michelangelo was 46, Martin Luther was 38, Niccolò Machiavelli was 52, Nicolaus Copernicus was 48 and Albrecht Dürer was 50.

When Pope Sixtus V died, William Shakespeare was 26, Galileo Galilei was 26, Elizabeth I was 56, Francis Bacon was 29 and Johannes Kepler was 18.

Born during Pope Sixtus V’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, Miguel de Cervantes, Elizabeth I, Francis Bacon, Johannes Kepler, Peter Paul Rubens and Akbar.

Not quite contemporaries: Leonardo da Vinci died about 2 years before Pope Sixtus V was born, René Descartes was born about 6 years after Pope Sixtus V died, Ferdinand Magellan died months before Pope Sixtus V was born and Raphael died about a year before Pope Sixtus V was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

178 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Pope Sixtus V. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1556.

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  4. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  5. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  6. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  7. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  8. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  9. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  10. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  11. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  12. Vasco da Gama c. 1464 – 1524
  13. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  14. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  15. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  16. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  17. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  18. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  19. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  20. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  21. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  22. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  23. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  24. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  25. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  26. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  27. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  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. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  39. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  40. Babur 1483 – 1530
  41. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  42. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  43. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  44. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  45. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  46. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  47. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  48. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  49. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  50. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  51. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  52. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  53. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  54. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  55. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  56. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  57. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  58. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  59. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  60. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  61. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  62. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  63. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  64. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  65. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  66. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  67. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  68. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  69. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  70. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  71. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  72. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  73. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  74. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  75. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  76. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  77. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  78. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  79. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  80. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  81. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  82. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  83. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  84. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  85. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  86. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  87. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  88. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  89. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  90. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  91. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  92. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  93. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  94. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  95. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  96. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  97. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  98. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  99. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  100. Lady Jane Grey 1537 – 1554
  101. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  102. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  103. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  104. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  105. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  106. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  107. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  108. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  109. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  110. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  111. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  112. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  113. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  114. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  115. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  116. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  117. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  118. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  119. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  120. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  121. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  122. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  123. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  124. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  125. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  126. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  127. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  128. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  129. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  130. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  131. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  132. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  133. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  134. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  135. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  136. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  137. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  138. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  139. Francis II of France 1544 – 1560
  140. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  141. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  142. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  143. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  144. James V 1512 – 1542
  145. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  146. Michael Servetus 1511 – 1553
  147. Catherine Howard 1524 – 1542
  148. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  149. Marie de' Medici 1575 – 1642
  150. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571