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Skanderbeg
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Skanderbeg

Albanian military commander

Born 6 May 1405 · died 17 January 1468, aged 62
Also known as Scanderbeg, Gjergj Kastrioti

Who was alive at the same time as Skanderbeg?

  1. Ibn Khaldun, c. 1332 – c. 1406
  2. Jan Hus, c. 1375 – 1415
  3. Zheng He, 1371 – c. 1435
  4. Donatello, c. 1386 – 1466
  5. Johannes Gutenberg, c. 1400 – 1468
  6. Leon Battista Alberti, 1404 – 1472
  7. Skanderbeg, 1405 – 1468
  8. Pope Pius II, 1405 – 1464
  9. Joan of Arc, c. 1412 – 1431
  10. Vlad the Impaler, c. 1430 – c. 1477
  11. Pope Alexander VI, c. 1431 – 1503
  12. François Villon, 1431 – 1463
  13. Mehmed II, 1432 – 1481
  14. Sandro Botticelli, c. 1445 – 1510
  15. Pope Julius II, 1443 – 1513
  16. Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1450 – 1516
  17. Christopher Columbus, 1451 – 1506
  18. Isabella I of Castile, 1451 – 1504
  19. Ferdinand II of Aragon, 1452 – 1516
  20. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  21. Richard III of England, 1452 – 1485
  22. Amerigo Vespucci, 1454 – 1512
  23. Pope Adrian VI, 1459 – 1523
  24. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536

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When Skanderbeg was born, Ibn Khaldun was 72 or 73, Zheng He was 33 or 34, Leon Battista Alberti was 1, Pope Callixtus III was 26 and Henry V of England was 18.

When Skanderbeg died, Leonardo da Vinci was 15, Christopher Columbus was 16 or 17, Erasmus was 1, Mehmed II was 35 and Amerigo Vespucci was 13.

Born during Skanderbeg’s lifetime: Leonardo da Vinci, Christopher Columbus, Joan of Arc, Erasmus, Mehmed II, Sandro Botticelli, Amerigo Vespucci and Pope Alexander VI.

Not quite contemporaries: Michelangelo was born about 7 years after Skanderbeg died, Niccolò Machiavelli was born about a year after Skanderbeg died, Nicolaus Copernicus was born about 5 years after Skanderbeg died and Ferdinand Magellan was born about 10 years after Skanderbeg died.

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The 91 best-known contemporaries

91 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Skanderbeg. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1437.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1519
  2. Christopher Columbus 1451 – 1506
  3. Joan of Arc c. 1412 – 1431
  4. Johannes Gutenberg c. 1400 – 1468
  5. Ibn Khaldun c. 1332 – c. 1406
  6. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  7. Zheng He 1371 – c. 1435
  8. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  9. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  10. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  11. Donatello c. 1386 – 1466
  12. Jan Hus c. 1375 – 1415
  13. Pope Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  14. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  15. François Villon 1431 – 1463
  16. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  17. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  18. Vlad the Impaler c. 1430 – c. 1477
  19. Pope Pius II 1405 – 1464
  20. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  21. Leon Battista Alberti 1404 – 1472
  22. Richard III of England 1452 – 1485
  23. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  24. Pope Callixtus III 1379 – 1458
  25. Henry V of England 1386 – 1422
  26. Jan van Eyck c. 1390 – 1441
  27. Jami 1414 – 1492
  28. Lorenzo de' Medici 1449 – 1492
  29. Girolamo Savonarola 1452 – 1498
  30. Pope Eugene IV 1383 – 1447
  31. Pope Nicholas V c. 1397 – 1455
  32. Louis XI 1423 – 1483
  33. Pope Sixtus IV 1414 – 1484
  34. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  35. Nicholas of Cusa 1401 – 1464
  36. Pope Innocent VIII 1432 – 1492
  37. Pope Paul II 1417 – 1471
  38. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  39. Pope Martin V c. 1369 – 1431
  40. Murad II 1404 – 1451
  41. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  42. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  43. Christine de Pizan 1364 – 1430
  44. Charles VI of France 1368 – 1422
  45. Masaccio 1401 – 1428
  46. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  47. Ulugh Beg 1394 – 1449
  48. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  49. Thomas à Kempis c. 1381 – 1471
  50. Charles VII of France 1403 – 1461
  51. Fra Angelico c. 1396 – 1455
  52. Sejong the Great 1397 – 1450
  53. Edward IV 1442 – 1483
  54. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 1463 – 1494
  55. Pope Gregory XII c. 1335 – 1417
  56. Władysław II Jagiełło 1362 – 1434
  57. Constantine XI Palaiologos 1404 – 1453
  58. Henry VI of England 1421 – 1471
  59. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  60. Pope Innocent VII c. 1338 – 1406
  61. Henry IV of England 1367 – 1413
  62. Mehmed I 1386 – 1421
  63. Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor 1368 – 1437
  64. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  65. Matthias Corvinus 1443 – 1490
  66. Domenico Ghirlandaio 1448 – 1494
  67. Marsilio Ficino 1433 – 1499
  68. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  69. Andrei Rublev 1360s – 1430
  70. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  71. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  72. Ali-Shir Nava'i 1441 – 1501
  73. John Cabot c. 1450 – c. 1498
  74. Filippo Brunelleschi 1377 – 1446
  75. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  76. Piero della Francesca 1415 – 1492
  77. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  78. Prince Henry the Navigator 1394 – 1460
  79. Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor 1415 – 1493
  80. Andrea del Verrocchio c. 1435 – 1488
  81. Charles the Bold 1433 – 1477
  82. Pietro Perugino 1448 – 1523
  83. Zeami Motokiyo c. 1363 – 1443
  84. Margaret I of Denmark 1353 – 1412
  85. Juan Ponce de León 1460 – 1521
  86. James I of Scotland 1394 – 1437
  87. Manuel II Palaiologos 1350 – 1425
  88. Cosimo de' Medici 1389 – 1464
  89. Rogier van der Weyden c. 1396 – 1464
  90. Christian I of Denmark 1426 – 1481
  91. Lorenzo Valla 1407 – 1457