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Selim I
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Selim I

Caliph

Born 10 October 1470 · died 22 September 1520, aged 49
Also known as Selim the Grim, Selim the Resolute

Who was alive at the same time as Selim I?

  1. Mehmed II, 1432 – 1481
  2. Sandro Botticelli, c. 1445 – 1510
  3. Christopher Columbus, 1451 – 1506
  4. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  5. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  6. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  7. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  8. Selim I, 1470 – 1520
  9. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  10. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  11. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  12. Thomas More, c. 1478 – 1535
  13. Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1480 – 1521
  14. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  15. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  16. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  17. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  18. Henry VIII, 1491 – 1547
  19. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  20. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  21. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  22. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500 – 1558
  23. Nostradamus, 1503 – 1566
  24. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564

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When Selim I was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 18, Christopher Columbus was 18 or 19, Niccolò Machiavelli was 1, Erasmus was 3 and Mehmed II was 38.

When Selim I died, Michelangelo was 45, Martin Luther was 36, Niccolò Machiavelli was 51, Nicolaus Copernicus was 47 and Albrecht Dürer was 49.

Born during Selim I’s lifetime: Michelangelo, Martin Luther, Nicolaus Copernicus, Ferdinand Magellan, Raphael, Albrecht Dürer, Hernán Cortés and Jacques Cartier.

Not quite contemporaries: Elizabeth I was born about 13 years after Selim I died, Johannes Gutenberg died about a year before Selim I was born, Michel de Montaigne was born about 13 years after Selim I died and Ivan the Terrible was born about 10 years after Selim I died.

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The 138 best-known contemporaries

138 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Selim I. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1495.

  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 c. 1464 – 1524
  11. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  12. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  13. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  14. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  15. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  16. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  17. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  18. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  19. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  20. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  21. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  22. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  23. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  24. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  25. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  26. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  27. Babur 1483 – 1530
  28. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  29. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  30. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  31. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  32. Pope Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  33. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  34. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  35. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  36. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  37. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  38. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  39. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  40. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  41. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  42. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  43. Vlad the Impaler c. 1430 – c. 1477
  44. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  45. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  46. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  47. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  48. Leon Battista Alberti 1404 – 1472
  49. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  50. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  51. Richard III of England 1452 – 1485
  52. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  53. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  54. Jami 1414 – 1492
  55. Lorenzo de' Medici 1449 – 1492
  56. Girolamo Savonarola 1452 – 1498
  57. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  58. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  59. Louis XI 1423 – 1483
  60. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  61. Pope Sixtus IV 1414 – 1484
  62. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  63. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  64. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  65. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  66. Pope Innocent VIII 1432 – 1492
  67. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  68. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  69. Pope Paul II 1417 – 1471
  70. Bartolomeu Dias c. 1467 – 1500
  71. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  72. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  73. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  74. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  75. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  76. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  77. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  78. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  79. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  80. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  81. Thomas à Kempis c. 1381 – 1471
  82. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  83. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  84. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  85. Edward IV 1442 – 1483
  86. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 1463 – 1494
  87. Charles VIII of France 1470 – 1498
  88. Henry VI of England 1421 – 1471
  89. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  90. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  91. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  92. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  93. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  94. Matthias Corvinus 1443 – 1490
  95. Domenico Ghirlandaio 1448 – 1494
  96. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  97. Marsilio Ficino 1433 – 1499
  98. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  99. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  100. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  101. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  102. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  103. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  104. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  105. Ali-Shir Nava'i 1441 – 1501
  106. John Cabot c. 1450 – c. 1498
  107. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  108. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  109. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  110. Piero della Francesca 1415 – 1492
  111. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  112. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  113. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  114. James V 1512 – 1542
  115. Giorgione 1478 – 1510
  116. Michael Servetus 1511 – 1553
  117. Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor 1415 – 1493
  118. Andrea del Verrocchio c. 1435 – 1488
  119. Charles the Bold 1433 – 1477
  120. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  121. Pietro Perugino 1448 – 1523
  122. Cesare Borgia 1475 – 1507
  123. Anne of Cleves 1515 – 1557
  124. Juan Sebastián Elcano c. 1486 – 1526
  125. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486 – 1534
  126. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556
  127. Bronzino 1503 – 1572
  128. Juan Ponce de León 1460 – 1521
  129. Manuel I of Portugal 1469 – 1521
  130. Georgius Agricola 1494 – 1555
  131. Jane Seymour 1508 – 1537
  132. Piri Reis c. 1470 – c. 1554
  133. Christian I of Denmark 1426 – 1481
  134. Vasco Núñez de Balboa c. 1475 – 1519
  135. James IV 1473 – 1513
  136. Baldassare Castiglione 1478 – 1529
  137. Vasili III of Russia 1479 – 1533
  138. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 1486 – 1535