Who Was Alive

Titian

Italian painter

Born c. 1490 · died 27 August 1576

Who was alive at the same time as Titian?

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When Titian died, William Shakespeare was 12, Galileo Galilei was 12, Francis Bacon was 15, Elizabeth I of England was 42 and Johannes Kepler was 4.

Born during Titian’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, Miguel de Cervantes, Francis Bacon, Elizabeth I of England, Johannes Kepler, Akbar and Suleiman the Magnificent.

Not quite contemporaries: Peter Paul Rubens was born about a year after Titian died, Thomas Hobbes was born 12 years after Titian died, Mehmed II died 7 years before Titian was born and Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu was born 9 years after Titian died.

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All 70 contemporaries we track

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1519
  3. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  4. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  5. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  6. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  7. Christopher Columbus 1451 – 1506
  8. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  9. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  10. Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480 – 1521
  11. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  12. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  13. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  14. Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603
  15. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  16. Vasco da Gama 1457–1469 – 1524
  17. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  18. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  19. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  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 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 of England 1491 – 1547
  34. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  35. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  36. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  37. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  38. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  39. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  40. Luís de Camões 1524–1525 – 1580
  41. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  42. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  43. Babur 1483 – 1530
  44. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  45. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  46. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  47. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  48. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  49. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  50. Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  51. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  52. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  53. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  54. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  55. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  56. Julius II 1443 – 1513
  57. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  58. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  59. Edward VI of England 1537 – 1553
  60. Leo X 1475 – 1521
  61. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  62. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  63. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  64. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  65. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  66. Pieter Brueghel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  67. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  68. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  69. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  70. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644