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Tulsidas
Mohan, 1949, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Tulsidas

Poet

Born 1511–1532 · died 1623
Also known as Gosvami Tulsidas

Who was alive at the same time as Tulsidas?

  1. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  2. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  3. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  4. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  5. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  6. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  7. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  8. Tulsidas, c. 1522 – 1623
  9. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  10. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  11. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  12. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  13. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  14. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  15. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  16. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  17. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  18. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  19. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  20. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  21. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  22. John Milton, 1608 – 1674
  23. Jean de La Fontaine, 1621 – 1695
  24. Molière, 1622 – 1673

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When Tulsidas died, Galileo Galilei was 58 or 59, René Descartes was 26 or 27, Molière was about a year old, Rembrandt was 16 or 17 and Francis Bacon was 61 or 62.

Born during Tulsidas’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, René Descartes, Miguel de Cervantes, Molière, Rembrandt, Elizabeth I and Francis Bacon.

Not quite contemporaries: Christopher Columbus died about 5 years before Tulsidas was born, John Locke was born about 9 years after Tulsidas died, Louis XIV was born about 15 years after Tulsidas died and Baruch Spinoza was born about 9 years after Tulsidas died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

219 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Tulsidas. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1578.

  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. Molière 1622 – 1673
  8. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  9. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  10. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  11. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  12. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  13. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  14. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  15. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  16. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  17. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  18. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  19. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  20. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  21. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  22. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  23. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  24. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  25. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  26. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  27. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  28. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  29. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  30. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  31. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  32. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  33. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  34. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  35. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  36. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  37. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  38. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  39. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  40. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  41. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  42. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  43. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  44. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  45. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  46. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  47. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  48. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  49. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  50. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  51. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  52. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  53. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  54. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  55. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  56. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  57. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  58. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  59. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  60. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  61. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  62. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  63. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  64. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  65. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  66. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  67. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  68. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  69. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  70. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  71. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  72. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  73. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  74. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  75. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  76. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  77. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  78. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  79. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  80. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  81. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  82. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  83. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  84. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  85. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  86. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  87. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  88. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  89. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  90. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  91. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  92. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  93. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  94. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  95. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  96. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  97. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  98. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  99. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  100. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  101. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  102. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  103. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  104. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  105. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  106. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  107. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  108. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  109. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  110. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  111. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  112. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  113. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  114. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  115. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  116. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  117. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  118. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  119. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  120. Lady Jane Grey 1537 – 1554
  121. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  122. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  123. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  124. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  125. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  126. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  127. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  128. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  129. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  130. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  131. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  132. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  133. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  134. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  135. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  136. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  137. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  138. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  139. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  140. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  141. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  142. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  143. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  144. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  145. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  146. Osman II 1604 – 1622
  147. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  148. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  149. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  150. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636