Who Was Alive

Zeami Motokiyo

Japanese aesthetician and playwright

Born c. 1363 · died 1 September 1443
Also known as Motokiyo Zeami, Zeami, Kanze Motokiyo

Who was alive at the same time as Zeami Motokiyo?

  1. Ibn Battuta, 1304 – c. 1368
  2. Petrarch, 1304 – 1374
  3. Giovanni Boccaccio, 1313 – 1375
  4. Hafez, c. 1325 – c. 1390
  5. Ibn Khaldun, c. 1332 – c. 1406
  6. Timur, 1336 – 1405
  7. Geoffrey Chaucer, c. 1343 – c. 1400
  8. Bayezid I, c. 1354 – 1403
  9. Zeami Motokiyo, c. 1363 – 1443
  10. Jan Hus, c. 1375 – 1415
  11. Zheng He, 1371 – c. 1435
  12. Pope Callixtus III, 1379 – 1458
  13. Donatello, c. 1386 – 1466
  14. Henry V of England, 1386 – 1422
  15. Jan van Eyck, c. 1390 – 1441
  16. Johannes Gutenberg, c. 1400 – 1468
  17. Leon Battista Alberti, 1404 – 1472
  18. Pope Pius II, 1405 – 1464
  19. Joan of Arc, c. 1412 – 1431
  20. Jami, 1414 – 1492
  21. Vlad the Impaler, c. 1430 – c. 1477
  22. Pope Alexander VI, c. 1431 – 1503
  23. François Villon, 1431 – 1463
  24. Mehmed II, 1432 – 1481

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When Zeami Motokiyo died, Mehmed II was 11, François Villon was 11 or 12, Pope Pius II was 37, Leon Battista Alberti was 39 and Pope Callixtus III was 64.

Born during Zeami Motokiyo’s lifetime: Joan of Arc, Johannes Gutenberg, Zheng He, Mehmed II, Donatello, Jan Hus, Pope Alexander VI and François Villon.

Not quite contemporaries: Leonardo da Vinci was born about 9 years after Zeami Motokiyo died, Christopher Columbus was born about 8 years after Zeami Motokiyo died, Vasco da Gama was born about 15 years after Zeami Motokiyo died and Amerigo Vespucci was born about 11 years after Zeami Motokiyo died.

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The 87 best-known contemporaries

87 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Zeami Motokiyo. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1405.

  1. Joan of Arc c. 1412 – 1431
  2. Johannes Gutenberg c. 1400 – 1468
  3. Geoffrey Chaucer c. 1343 – c. 1400
  4. Ibn Battuta 1304 – c. 1368
  5. Ibn Khaldun c. 1332 – c. 1406
  6. Petrarch 1304 – 1374
  7. Hafez c. 1325 – c. 1390
  8. Timur 1336 – 1405
  9. Zheng He 1371 – c. 1435
  10. Giovanni Boccaccio 1313 – 1375
  11. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  12. Donatello c. 1386 – 1466
  13. Jan Hus c. 1375 – 1415
  14. Pope Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  15. François Villon 1431 – 1463
  16. Vlad the Impaler c. 1430 – c. 1477
  17. Pope Pius II 1405 – 1464
  18. Leon Battista Alberti 1404 – 1472
  19. Pope Callixtus III 1379 – 1458
  20. Henry V of England 1386 – 1422
  21. Jan van Eyck c. 1390 – 1441
  22. Jami 1414 – 1492
  23. Bayezid I c. 1354 – 1403
  24. Pope Eugene IV 1383 – 1447
  25. Pope Nicholas V c. 1397 – 1455
  26. Louis XI 1423 – 1483
  27. Edward III 1312 – 1377
  28. John Wycliffe 1320s – 1384
  29. Skanderbeg 1405 – 1468
  30. Pope Sixtus IV 1414 – 1484
  31. Catherine of Siena 1347 – 1380
  32. Nicholas of Cusa 1401 – 1464
  33. Pope Innocent VIII 1432 – 1492
  34. Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor 1316 – 1378
  35. Pope Paul II 1417 – 1471
  36. Pope Martin V c. 1369 – 1431
  37. Murad II 1404 – 1451
  38. Christine de Pizan 1364 – 1430
  39. Charles VI of France 1368 – 1422
  40. Masaccio 1401 – 1428
  41. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  42. Pope Urban V 1310 – 1370
  43. Ulugh Beg 1394 – 1449
  44. Pope Gregory XI c. 1331 – 1378
  45. Thomas à Kempis c. 1381 – 1471
  46. Charles VII of France 1403 – 1461
  47. Murad I 1326 – 1389
  48. Fra Angelico c. 1396 – 1455
  49. Sejong the Great 1397 – 1450
  50. Edward IV 1442 – 1483
  51. Pope Urban VI c. 1318 – 1389
  52. Pope Gregory XII c. 1335 – 1417
  53. Władysław II Jagiełło 1362 – 1434
  54. Constantine XI Palaiologos 1404 – 1453
  55. Henry VI of England 1421 – 1471
  56. Charles V of France 1338 – 1380
  57. Richard II of England 1367 – c. 1400
  58. Pope Innocent VII c. 1338 – 1406
  59. Henry IV of England 1367 – 1413
  60. Mehmed I 1386 – 1421
  61. Pope Boniface IX 1356 – 1404
  62. Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor 1368 – 1437
  63. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  64. Matthias Corvinus 1443 – 1490
  65. Marsilio Ficino 1433 – 1499
  66. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  67. Andrei Rublev 1360s – 1430
  68. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  69. Ali-Shir Nava'i 1441 – 1501
  70. Filippo Brunelleschi 1377 – 1446
  71. Bridget of Sweden 1303 – 1373
  72. Hongwu Emperor 1328 – 1398
  73. Piero della Francesca 1415 – 1492
  74. Prince Henry the Navigator 1394 – 1460
  75. Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor 1415 – 1493
  76. Andrea del Verrocchio c. 1435 – 1488
  77. Charles the Bold 1433 – 1477
  78. Edward the Black Prince 1330 – 1376
  79. Margaret I of Denmark 1353 – 1412
  80. James I of Scotland 1394 – 1437
  81. Manuel II Palaiologos 1350 – 1425
  82. Dmitry Donskoy 1350 – 1389
  83. Cosimo de' Medici 1389 – 1464
  84. Rogier van der Weyden c. 1396 – 1464
  85. Christian I of Denmark 1426 – 1481
  86. Casimir III the Great 1310 – 1370
  87. Lorenzo Valla 1407 – 1457