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Sandro Botticelli

Italian painter

Born c. 1445 · died 17 May 1510

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When Sandro Botticelli died, Leonardo da Vinci was 58, Michelangelo was 35, Martin Luther was 26, Niccolò Machiavelli was 41 and Nicolaus Copernicus was 37.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Joan of Arc died 12 years before Sandro Botticelli was born, Zheng He died 7 years before Sandro Botticelli was born, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was born 15 years after Sandro Botticelli died and Luís de Camões was born 14 years after Sandro Botticelli died.

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  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. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  9. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  10. Vasco da Gama 1457–1469 – 1524
  11. Johannes Gutenberg 1393–1406 – 1468
  12. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  13. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  14. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  15. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  16. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  17. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  18. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  19. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  20. Charles V 1500 – 1558
  21. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  22. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  23. Henry VIII of England 1491 – 1547
  24. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  25. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  26. Donatello c. 1386 – 1466
  27. Babur 1483 – 1530
  28. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  29. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  30. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  31. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  32. Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  33. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  34. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  35. François Villon 1431 – 1463
  36. Julius II 1443 – 1513
  37. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  38. Leo X 1475 – 1521
  39. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  40. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  41. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  42. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  43. Vlad the Impaler 1428–1431 – 1476–1477
  44. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  45. Pius II 1405 – 1464
  46. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  47. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541