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Tintoretto
Jacopo Tintoretto, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Tintoretto

Venetian painter

Born 1519 · died 31 May 1594, aged 74 or 75
Also known as Jacopo Tintoretto, Il Furioso, Jacopo Comin

Who was alive at the same time as Tintoretto?

  1. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  2. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  3. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  4. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  5. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  6. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  7. Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1480 – 1521
  8. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  9. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  10. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  11. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  12. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  13. Tintoretto, 1519 – 1594
  14. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  15. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  16. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  17. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  18. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  19. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  20. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  21. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  22. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  23. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  24. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679

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When Tintoretto was born, Michelangelo was 43 or 44, Martin Luther was 35 or 36, Niccolò Machiavelli was 49 or 50, Nicolaus Copernicus was 45 or 46 and Raphael was 35 or 36.

When Tintoretto died, William Shakespeare was 30, Galileo Galilei was 30, Elizabeth I was 60, Francis Bacon was 33 and Johannes Kepler was 22.

Born during Tintoretto’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, Miguel de Cervantes, Elizabeth I, Francis Bacon, Johannes Kepler, Peter Paul Rubens and Akbar.

Not quite contemporaries: René Descartes was born about 2 years after Tintoretto died, Christopher Columbus died about 13 years before Tintoretto was born, Rembrandt was born about 12 years after Tintoretto died and Diego Velázquez was born about 5 years after Tintoretto died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

192 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Tintoretto. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1557.

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  4. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  5. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  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. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  12. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  13. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  14. Vasco da Gama c. 1464 – 1524
  15. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  16. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  17. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  18. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  19. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  20. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  21. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  22. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  23. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  24. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  25. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  26. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  27. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  28. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  29. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  30. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  31. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  32. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  33. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  34. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  35. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  36. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  37. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  38. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  39. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  40. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  41. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  42. Babur 1483 – 1530
  43. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  44. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  45. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  46. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  47. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  48. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  49. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  50. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  51. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  52. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  53. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  54. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  55. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  56. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  57. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  58. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  59. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  60. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  61. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  62. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  63. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  64. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  65. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  66. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  67. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  68. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  69. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  70. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  71. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  72. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  73. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  74. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  75. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  76. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  77. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  78. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  79. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  80. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  81. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  82. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  83. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  84. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  85. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  86. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  87. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  88. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  89. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  90. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  91. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  92. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  93. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  94. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  95. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  96. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  97. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  98. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  99. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  100. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  101. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  102. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  103. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  104. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  105. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  106. Lady Jane Grey 1537 – 1554
  107. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  108. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  109. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  110. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  111. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  112. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  113. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  114. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  115. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  116. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  117. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  118. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  119. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  120. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  121. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  122. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  123. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  124. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  125. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  126. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  127. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  128. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  129. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  130. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  131. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  132. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  133. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  134. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  135. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  136. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  137. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  138. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  139. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  140. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  141. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  142. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  143. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  144. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  145. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  146. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  147. Francis II of France 1544 – 1560
  148. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  149. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  150. Mumtaz Mahal 1593 – 1631