Who Was Alive

Vlad the Impaler

15th-century ruler of Wallachia

Born 1428–1431 · died 1476–1477

Who was alive at the same time as Vlad the Impaler?

  1. Zheng He
  2. Donatello
  3. Johannes Gutenberg
  4. Vlad the Impaler
  5. Alexander VI
  6. François Villon
  7. Mehmed II
  8. Sandro Botticelli
  9. Julius II
  10. Hieronymus Bosch
  11. Christopher Columbus
  12. Isabella I of Castile
  13. Leonardo da Vinci
  14. Amerigo Vespucci
  15. Vasco da Gama
  16. Erasmus
  17. Paul III
  18. Guru Nanak
  19. Niccolò Machiavelli
  20. Albrecht Dürer
  21. Nicolaus Copernicus
  22. Ludovico Ariosto
  23. Michelangelo
  24. Leo X
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When Vlad the Impaler died, Leonardo da Vinci was 24, Michelangelo was 1, Niccolò Machiavelli was 7, Nicolaus Copernicus was 3 and Albrecht Dürer was 5.

Born during Vlad the Impaler’s lifetime: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Christopher Columbus, Niccolò Machiavelli, Nicolaus Copernicus, Albrecht Dürer, Vasco da Gama and Erasmus.

Not quite contemporaries: Martin Luther was born 6 years after Vlad the Impaler died, Ferdinand Magellan was born about a year after Vlad the Impaler died, Raphael was born 6 years after Vlad the Impaler died and Hernán Cortés was born 8 years after Vlad the Impaler died.

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All 25 contemporaries we track

  1. Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1519
  2. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  3. Christopher Columbus 1451 – 1506
  4. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  5. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  6. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  7. Vasco da Gama 1457–1469 – 1524
  8. Johannes Gutenberg 1393–1406 – 1468
  9. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  10. Zheng He 1371 – 1433–1435
  11. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  12. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  13. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  14. Donatello c. 1386 – 1466
  15. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  16. Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  17. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  18. François Villon 1431 – 1463
  19. Julius II 1443 – 1513
  20. Leo X 1475 – 1521
  21. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  22. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  23. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  24. Pius II 1405 – 1464
  25. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516