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Vasco Núñez de Balboa
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Vasco Núñez de Balboa

Spanish explorer and conquistador

Born c. 1475 · died 15 January 1519
Also known as Vasco Nunez De Balboa, Vasco Nuñez de Balboa

Who was alive at the same time as Vasco Núñez de Balboa?

  1. Mehmed II, 1432 – 1481
  2. Sandro Botticelli, c. 1445 – 1510
  3. Christopher Columbus, 1451 – 1506
  4. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  5. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  6. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  7. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  8. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  9. Vasco Núñez de Balboa, c. 1475 – 1519
  10. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  11. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  12. Thomas More, c. 1478 – 1535
  13. Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1480 – 1521
  14. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  15. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  16. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  17. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  18. Henry VIII, 1491 – 1547
  19. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  20. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  21. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  22. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500 – 1558
  23. Nostradamus, 1503 – 1566
  24. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564

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When Vasco Núñez de Balboa died, Leonardo da Vinci was 66, Michelangelo was 43, Martin Luther was 35, Niccolò Machiavelli was 49 and Nicolaus Copernicus was 45.

Born during Vasco Núñez de Balboa’s lifetime: Martin Luther, Ferdinand Magellan, Raphael, Hernán Cortés, Jacques Cartier, Suleiman the Magnificent, Mimar Sinan and John Calvin.

Not quite contemporaries: Elizabeth I was born about 14 years after Vasco Núñez de Balboa died, Johannes Gutenberg died about 4 years before Vasco Núñez de Balboa was born, Michel de Montaigne was born about 14 years after Vasco Núñez de Balboa died and Ivan the Terrible was born about 11 years after Vasco Núñez de Balboa died.

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Where Vasco Núñez de Balboa’s contemporaries were born

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The 128 best-known contemporaries

128 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Vasco Núñez de Balboa. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1499.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1519
  2. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  3. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  4. Christopher Columbus 1451 – 1506
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  6. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  7. Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480 – 1521
  8. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  9. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  10. Vasco da Gama c. 1464 – 1524
  11. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  12. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  13. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  14. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  15. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  16. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  17. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  18. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  19. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  20. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  21. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  22. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  23. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  24. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  25. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  26. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  27. Babur 1483 – 1530
  28. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  29. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  30. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  31. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  32. Pope Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  33. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  34. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  35. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  36. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  37. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  38. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  39. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  40. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  41. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  42. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  43. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  44. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  45. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  46. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  47. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  48. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  49. Richard III of England 1452 – 1485
  50. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  51. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  52. Jami 1414 – 1492
  53. Lorenzo de' Medici 1449 – 1492
  54. Girolamo Savonarola 1452 – 1498
  55. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  56. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  57. Louis XI 1423 – 1483
  58. Pope Sixtus IV 1414 – 1484
  59. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  60. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  61. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  62. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  63. Pope Innocent VIII 1432 – 1492
  64. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  65. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  66. Bartolomeu Dias c. 1467 – 1500
  67. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  68. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  69. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  70. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  71. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  72. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  73. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  74. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  75. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  76. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  77. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  78. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  79. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  80. Edward IV 1442 – 1483
  81. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 1463 – 1494
  82. Charles VIII of France 1470 – 1498
  83. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  84. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  85. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  86. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  87. Matthias Corvinus 1443 – 1490
  88. Domenico Ghirlandaio 1448 – 1494
  89. Marsilio Ficino 1433 – 1499
  90. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  91. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  92. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  93. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  94. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  95. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  96. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  97. Ali-Shir Nava'i 1441 – 1501
  98. John Cabot c. 1450 – c. 1498
  99. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  100. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  101. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  102. Piero della Francesca 1415 – 1492
  103. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  104. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  105. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  106. James V 1512 – 1542
  107. Giorgione 1478 – 1510
  108. Michael Servetus 1511 – 1553
  109. Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor 1415 – 1493
  110. Andrea del Verrocchio c. 1435 – 1488
  111. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  112. Pietro Perugino 1448 – 1523
  113. Cesare Borgia 1475 – 1507
  114. Anne of Cleves 1515 – 1557
  115. Juan Sebastián Elcano c. 1486 – 1526
  116. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486 – 1534
  117. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556
  118. Bronzino 1503 – 1572
  119. Juan Ponce de León 1460 – 1521
  120. Manuel I of Portugal 1469 – 1521
  121. Georgius Agricola 1494 – 1555
  122. Jane Seymour 1508 – 1537
  123. Piri Reis c. 1470 – c. 1554
  124. Christian I of Denmark 1426 – 1481
  125. James IV 1473 – 1513
  126. Baldassare Castiglione 1478 – 1529
  127. Vasili III of Russia 1479 – 1533
  128. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 1486 – 1535