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Thomas Cranmer
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Thomas Cranmer

British archbishop

Born 2 July 1489 · died 21 March 1556, aged 66

Who was alive at the same time as Thomas Cranmer?

  1. Christopher Columbus, 1451 – 1506
  2. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  3. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  4. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  6. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  7. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  8. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  9. Thomas More, c. 1478 – 1535
  10. Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1480 – 1521
  11. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  12. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  13. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  14. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  15. Thomas Cranmer, 1489 – 1556
  16. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  17. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  18. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  19. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564
  20. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  21. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  22. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  23. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  24. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600

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When Thomas Cranmer was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 37, Michelangelo was 14, Martin Luther was 5, Christopher Columbus was 37 or 38 and Niccolò Machiavelli was 20.

When Thomas Cranmer died, Michelangelo was 81, Elizabeth I was 22, Akbar was 13, Jacques Cartier was 64 and Suleiman the Magnificent was 61.

Born during Thomas Cranmer’s lifetime: Miguel de Cervantes, Elizabeth I, Akbar, Jacques Cartier, Suleiman the Magnificent, Giordano Bruno, Michel de Montaigne and John Calvin.

Not quite contemporaries: William Shakespeare was born about 8 years after Thomas Cranmer died, Galileo Galilei was born about 8 years after Thomas Cranmer died, Francis Bacon was born about 5 years after Thomas Cranmer died and Lope de Vega was born about 6 years after Thomas Cranmer died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

184 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Thomas Cranmer. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1523.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1519
  2. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  3. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  4. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  5. Christopher Columbus 1451 – 1506
  6. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  7. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  8. Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480 – 1521
  9. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  10. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  11. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  12. Vasco da Gama c. 1464 – 1524
  13. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  14. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  15. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  16. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  17. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  18. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  19. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  20. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  21. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  22. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  23. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  24. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  25. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  26. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  27. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  28. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  29. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  30. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  31. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  32. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  33. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  34. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  35. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  36. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  37. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  38. Babur 1483 – 1530
  39. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  40. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  41. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  42. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  43. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  44. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  45. Pope Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  46. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  47. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  48. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  49. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  50. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  51. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  52. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  53. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  54. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  55. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  56. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  57. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  58. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  59. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  60. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  61. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  62. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  63. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  64. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  65. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  66. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  67. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  68. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  69. Jami 1414 – 1492
  70. Lorenzo de' Medici 1449 – 1492
  71. Girolamo Savonarola 1452 – 1498
  72. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  73. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  74. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  75. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  76. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  77. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  78. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  79. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  80. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  81. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  82. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  83. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  84. Pope Innocent VIII 1432 – 1492
  85. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  86. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  87. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  88. Bartolomeu Dias c. 1467 – 1500
  89. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  90. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  91. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  92. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  93. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  94. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  95. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  96. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  97. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  98. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  99. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  100. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  101. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  102. Lady Jane Grey 1537 – 1554
  103. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  104. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  105. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  106. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  107. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  108. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  109. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  110. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  111. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  112. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  113. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  114. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 1463 – 1494
  115. Charles VIII of France 1470 – 1498
  116. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  117. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  118. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  119. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  120. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  121. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  122. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  123. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  124. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  125. Matthias Corvinus 1443 – 1490
  126. Domenico Ghirlandaio 1448 – 1494
  127. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  128. Marsilio Ficino 1433 – 1499
  129. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  130. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  131. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  132. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  133. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  134. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  135. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  136. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  137. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  138. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  139. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  140. Ali-Shir Nava'i 1441 – 1501
  141. John Cabot c. 1450 – c. 1498
  142. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  143. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  144. Francis II of France 1544 – 1560
  145. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  146. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  147. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  148. Piero della Francesca 1415 – 1492
  149. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  150. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549