Who Was Alive

Raphael

Italian painter and architect

Born 1483 · died 6–7 April 1520, aged 37

Who was alive at the same time as Raphael?

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When Raphael was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 30, Michelangelo was 8, Christopher Columbus was 31 or 32, Niccolò Machiavelli was 13 and Nicolaus Copernicus was 10.

When Raphael died, Michelangelo was 45, Martin Luther was 36, Niccolò Machiavelli was 50, Nicolaus Copernicus was 47 and Albrecht Dürer was 48.

Born during Raphael’s lifetime: Martin Luther, Hernán Cortés, Jacques Cartier, Suleiman the Magnificent, Mimar Sinan, John Calvin, François Rabelais and Charles V.

Not quite contemporaries: Elizabeth I of England was born 13 years after Raphael died, Johannes Gutenberg died 14 years before Raphael was born, Michel de Montaigne was born 13 years after Raphael died and Mehmed II died 2 years before Raphael was born.

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All 43 contemporaries we track

  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. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  9. Vasco da Gama 1457–1469 – 1524
  10. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  11. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  12. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  13. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  14. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  15. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  16. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  17. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  18. Charles V 1500 – 1558
  19. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  20. Henry VIII of England 1491 – 1547
  21. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  22. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  23. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  24. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  25. Babur 1483 – 1530
  26. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  27. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  28. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  29. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  30. Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  31. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  32. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  33. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  34. Julius II 1443 – 1513
  35. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  36. Leo X 1475 – 1521
  37. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  38. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  39. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  40. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  41. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  42. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  43. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541