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Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Kanō Mitsunobu, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Japanese daimyo

Born 17 March 1537 · died 18 September 1598, aged 61

Who was alive at the same time as Toyotomi Hideyoshi?

  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. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  8. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  9. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500 – 1558
  10. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564
  11. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  12. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  13. Toyotomi Hideyoshi, 1537 – 1598
  14. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  15. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  16. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  17. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  18. Lope de Vega, 1562 – 1635
  19. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  20. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  21. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  22. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  23. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  24. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650

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When Toyotomi Hideyoshi was born, Michelangelo was 62, Martin Luther was 53, Nicolaus Copernicus was 64, Elizabeth I was 3 and Hernán Cortés was 51 or 52.

When Toyotomi Hideyoshi died, William Shakespeare was 34, Galileo Galilei was 34, René Descartes was 2, Elizabeth I was 65 and Francis Bacon was 37.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Niccolò Machiavelli died about 10 years before Toyotomi Hideyoshi was born, Rembrandt was born about 8 years after Toyotomi Hideyoshi died, Albrecht Dürer died about 9 years before Toyotomi Hideyoshi was born and Vasco da Gama died about 12 years before Toyotomi Hideyoshi was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

170 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Toyotomi Hideyoshi. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1568.

  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. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  9. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  10. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  11. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  12. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  13. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  14. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  15. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  16. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  17. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  18. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  19. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  20. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  21. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  22. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  23. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  24. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  25. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  26. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  27. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  28. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  29. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  30. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  31. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  32. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  33. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  34. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  35. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  36. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  37. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  38. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  39. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  40. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  41. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  42. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  43. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  44. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  45. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  46. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  47. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  48. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  49. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  50. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  51. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  52. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  53. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  54. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  55. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  56. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  57. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  58. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  59. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  60. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  61. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  62. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  63. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  64. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  65. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  66. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  67. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  68. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  69. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  70. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  71. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  72. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  73. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  74. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  75. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  76. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  77. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  78. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  79. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  80. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  81. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  82. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  83. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  84. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  85. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  86. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  87. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  88. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  89. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  90. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  91. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  92. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  93. Lady Jane Grey 1537 – 1554
  94. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  95. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  96. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  97. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  98. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  99. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  100. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  101. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  102. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  103. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  104. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  105. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  106. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  107. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  108. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  109. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  110. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  111. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  112. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  113. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  114. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  115. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  116. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  117. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  118. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  119. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  120. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  121. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  122. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  123. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  124. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  125. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  126. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  127. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  128. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  129. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  130. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  131. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  132. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  133. Francis II of France 1544 – 1560
  134. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  135. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  136. Mumtaz Mahal 1593 – 1631
  137. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  138. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  139. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  140. James V 1512 – 1542
  141. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  142. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  143. Michael Servetus 1511 – 1553
  144. Catherine Howard 1524 – 1542
  145. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  146. Marie de' Medici 1575 – 1642
  147. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  148. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593
  149. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598
  150. Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor 1527 – 1576