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Tokugawa Ieyasu
Kanō Tan ' yū, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Tokugawa Ieyasu

Samurai

Born 31 January 1543 · died 1 June 1616, aged 73
Also known as Matsudaira Takechiyo, Ieyasu

Who was alive at the same time as Tokugawa Ieyasu?

  1. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  2. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  3. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  4. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  5. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  6. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  7. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  8. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564
  9. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  10. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  11. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  12. Tokugawa Ieyasu, 1543 – 1616
  13. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  14. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  15. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  16. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  17. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  18. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  19. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  20. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  21. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  22. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  23. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  24. John Milton, 1608 – 1674

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When Tokugawa Ieyasu was born, Michelangelo was 67, Martin Luther was 59, Nicolaus Copernicus was 69, Elizabeth I was 9 and Hernán Cortés was 57 or 58.

When Tokugawa Ieyasu died, Galileo Galilei was 52, René Descartes was 20, Rembrandt was 9, Francis Bacon was 55 and Johannes Kepler was 44.

Born during Tokugawa Ieyasu’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, René Descartes, Miguel de Cervantes, Rembrandt, Francis Bacon, Johannes Kepler and Peter Paul Rubens.

Not quite contemporaries: Molière was born about 6 years after Tokugawa Ieyasu died, Blaise Pascal was born about 7 years after Tokugawa Ieyasu died, Albrecht Dürer died about 15 years before Tokugawa Ieyasu was born and Erasmus died about 7 years before Tokugawa Ieyasu was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

196 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Tokugawa Ieyasu. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1580.

  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. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  8. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  9. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  10. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  11. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  12. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  13. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  14. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  15. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  16. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  17. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  18. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  19. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  20. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  21. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  22. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  23. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  24. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  25. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  26. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  27. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  28. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  29. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  30. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  31. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  32. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  33. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  34. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  35. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  36. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  37. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  38. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  39. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  40. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  41. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  42. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  43. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  44. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  45. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  46. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  47. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  48. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  49. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  50. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  51. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  52. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  53. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  54. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  55. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  56. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  57. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  58. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  59. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  60. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  61. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  62. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  63. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  64. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  65. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  66. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  67. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  68. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  69. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  70. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  71. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  72. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  73. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  74. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  75. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  76. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  77. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  78. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  79. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  80. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  81. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  82. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  83. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  84. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  85. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  86. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  87. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  88. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  89. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  90. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  91. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  92. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  93. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  94. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  95. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  96. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  97. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  98. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  99. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  100. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  101. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  102. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  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. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  110. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  111. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  112. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  113. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  114. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  115. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  116. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  117. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  118. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  119. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  120. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  121. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  122. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  123. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  124. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  125. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  126. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  127. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  128. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  129. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  130. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  131. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  132. Osman II 1604 – 1622
  133. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  134. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  135. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  136. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  137. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  138. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  139. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  140. Murad IV 1612 – 1640
  141. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  142. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  143. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  144. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  145. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  146. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  147. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  148. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  149. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  150. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645