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Sofonisba Anguissola
Sofonisba Anguissola, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Sofonisba Anguissola

Milanese painter

Born 1532 · died 16 November 1625, aged 92 or 93
Also known as Sophonisbes Anguisola villagran, Moncada Angosciola toledo, Lomellino Sofonisba Anguissola

Who was alive at the same time as Sofonisba Anguissola?

  1. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  2. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  3. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  4. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  5. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  6. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  7. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  8. Sofonisba Anguissola, 1532 – 1625
  9. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  10. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  11. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  12. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  13. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  14. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  15. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  16. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  17. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  18. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  19. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  20. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  21. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  22. John Milton, 1608 – 1674
  23. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  24. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662

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When Sofonisba Anguissola was born, Michelangelo was 56 or 57, Martin Luther was 48 or 49, Nicolaus Copernicus was 58 or 59, Jacques Cartier was 40 or 41 and Erasmus was 65 or 66.

When Sofonisba Anguissola died, Galileo Galilei was 61, René Descartes was 29, Molière was 3, Rembrandt was 19 and Blaise Pascal was 2.

Born during Sofonisba Anguissola’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, René Descartes, Miguel de Cervantes, Molière, Rembrandt, Blaise Pascal and Elizabeth I.

Not quite contemporaries: Leonardo da Vinci died about 13 years before Sofonisba Anguissola was born, Niccolò Machiavelli died about 5 years before Sofonisba Anguissola was born, John Locke was born about 7 years after Sofonisba Anguissola died and Ferdinand Magellan died about 11 years before Sofonisba Anguissola was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

221 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Sofonisba Anguissola. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1579.

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  4. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  5. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  6. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  7. Molière 1622 – 1673
  8. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  9. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  10. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  11. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  12. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  13. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  14. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  15. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  16. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  17. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  18. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  19. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  20. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  21. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  22. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  23. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  24. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  25. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  26. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  27. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  28. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  29. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  30. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  31. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  32. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  33. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  34. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  35. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  36. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  37. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  38. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  39. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  40. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  41. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  42. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  43. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  44. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  45. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  46. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  47. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  48. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  49. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  50. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  51. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  52. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  53. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  54. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  55. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  56. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  57. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  58. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  59. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  60. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  61. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  62. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  63. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  64. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  65. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  66. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  67. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  68. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  69. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  70. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  71. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  72. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  73. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  74. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  75. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  76. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  77. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  78. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  79. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  80. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  81. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  82. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  83. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  84. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  85. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  86. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  87. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  88. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  89. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  90. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  91. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  92. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  93. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  94. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  95. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  96. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  97. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  98. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  99. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  100. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  101. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  102. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  103. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  104. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  105. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  106. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  107. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  108. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  109. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  110. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  111. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  112. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  113. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  114. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  115. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  116. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  117. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  118. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  119. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  120. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  121. Lady Jane Grey 1537 – 1554
  122. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  123. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  124. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  125. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  126. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  127. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  128. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  129. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  130. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  131. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  132. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  133. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  134. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  135. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  136. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  137. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  138. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  139. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  140. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  141. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  142. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  143. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  144. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  145. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  146. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  147. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  148. Osman II 1604 – 1622
  149. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  150. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594