Who Was Alive

Thomas More

English statesman, lawyer and philosopher

Born c. 1478 · died 6 July 1535

Who was alive at the same time as Thomas More?

  1. Mehmed II
  2. Christopher Columbus
  3. Leonardo da Vinci
  4. Vasco da Gama
  5. Erasmus
  6. Niccolò Machiavelli
  7. Albrecht Dürer
  8. Nicolaus Copernicus
  9. Michelangelo
  10. Thomas More
  11. Ferdinand Magellan
  12. Raphael
  13. Martin Luther
  14. Hernán Cortés
  15. Mimar Sinan
  16. Henry VIII of England
  17. Jacques Cartier
  18. François Rabelais
  19. Suleiman the Magnificent
  20. Charles V
  21. Nostradamus
  22. John Calvin
  23. Michel de Montaigne
  24. Elizabeth I of England
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Thomas More died, Michelangelo was 60, Martin Luther was 51, Nicolaus Copernicus was 62, Elizabeth I of England was 1 and Hernán Cortés was 49 or 50.

Born during Thomas More’s lifetime: Martin Luther, Raphael, Elizabeth I of England, Hernán Cortés, Jacques Cartier, Suleiman the Magnificent, Michel de Montaigne and Mimar Sinan.

Not quite contemporaries: Miguel de Cervantes was born 10 years after Thomas More died, Johannes Gutenberg died 7 years before Thomas More was born, Akbar was born 7 years after Thomas More died and Giordano Bruno was born 13 years after Thomas More died.

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All 51 contemporaries we track

  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. Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603
  11. Vasco da Gama 1457–1469 – 1524
  12. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  13. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  14. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  15. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  16. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  17. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  18. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  19. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  20. Charles V 1500 – 1558
  21. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  22. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  23. Henry VIII of England 1491 – 1547
  24. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  25. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  26. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  27. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  28. Luís de Camões 1524–1525 – 1580
  29. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  30. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  31. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  32. Babur 1483 – 1530
  33. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  34. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  35. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  36. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  37. Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  38. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  39. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  40. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  41. Julius II 1443 – 1513
  42. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  43. Leo X 1475 – 1521
  44. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  45. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  46. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  47. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  48. Pieter Brueghel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  49. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  50. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  51. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541