Michelangelo
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1475 – 1564 · 89 years · Rome · Europe
Titan of the Renaissance who created David, the Sistine Chapel frescoes and the dome of St Peter's.
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Portrait: Attributed to Daniele da Volterra · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Nicolaus Copernicus — astronomer, 2 years older
- Martin Luther — church reformer, 8 years younger
- Leonardo da Vinci — painter, scientist and inventor, 23 years older
- Elizabeth I — Queen of England, 58 years younger
- Miguel de Cervantes — Spanish novelist, 72 years younger
- Charles V — ruler of an empire "on which the sun never sets", 25 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Ivan the Terrible — first Tsar of Russia, 55 years younger
- Vasily III — grand prince who completed the unification of the Russian lands, 4 years younger
- Yermak Timofeyevich — Cossack conqueror of Siberia, 57 years younger
- Ivan III — Grand Prince of Moscow, 35 years older
- Sophia Palaiologina — Grand Princess of Moscow, 20 years older
- Boris Godunov — Tsar of Russia, 77 years younger
Middle East
- Suleiman the Magnificent — Ottoman sultan, 19 years younger
- Hurrem Sultan (Roxelana) — wife of Sultan Suleiman I, 30 years younger
- Selim I the Grim — sultan who took Cairo and Mecca, 5 years older
- Selim II — sultan who took Cyprus and lost at Lepanto, 49 years younger
- Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf — Ottoman astronomer and engineer, 51 years younger
- Bayezid II — sultan who took in the Jews expelled from Spain, 28 years older
Africa
- Askia Muhammad I — Emperor of Songhai, 32 years older
- Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi — Adal imam and general, 31 years younger
- Ahmad al-Mansur — Sultan of Morocco, 74 years younger
Asia
- Akbar the Great — Mughal emperor, 67 years younger
- Tokugawa Ieyasu — first Tokugawa shogun, 68 years younger
- Guru Nanak — founder of Sikhism, 6 years older
- Vasco da Gama — navigator, 6 years older
- Babur — founder of the Mughal Empire, 8 years younger
- Oda Nobunaga — Japanese warlord, 59 years younger
Americas
- Christopher Columbus — navigator, 24 years older
- Bartolomé de las Casas — friar and defender of Native Americans, 9 years younger
- Hernán Cortés — conquistador, 10 years younger
- Moctezuma II — Aztec emperor, 9 years older
- Ferdinand Magellan — navigator, 5 years younger
- Atahualpa — last Inca emperor, 27 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1478 Annexation of Novgorod by Moscow — aged 3, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1480 Great Stand on the Ugra River — aged 5, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1488 Dias rounds the Cape of Good Hope — aged 13, Africa
- 1492 Columbus reaches the Americas — aged 17, Americas
- 1492 Fall of Granada — aged 17, Europe
- 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas — aged 19, Europe
- 1498 Vasco da Gama reaches India — aged 23, Asia
- 1501 Founding of Safavid Iran — aged 26, Middle East
- 1508–1512 Sistine Chapel ceiling — aged 33, Europe
- 1511 Portuguese capture of Malacca — aged 36, Asia
- 1517 Luther's Ninety-five Theses — aged 42, Europe
- 1519–1522 Magellan's circumnavigation — aged 44, Americas
- 1520–1566 Reign of Suleiman the Magnificent — aged 45, Middle East
- 1521 Fall of Tenochtitlan — aged 46, Americas
- 1526 First Battle of Panipat — aged 51, Asia
- 1526 Battle of Mohács — aged 51, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1529–1543 Ahmad Gragn invades Ethiopia — aged 54, Africa
- 1532 Capture of Atahualpa at Cajamarca — aged 57, Americas
- 1534 Henry VIII breaks with Rome — aged 59, Europe
- 1542 Orellana sails down the Amazon — aged 67, Americas
- 1543 Copernicus publishes heliocentrism — aged 68, Europe
- 1545–1548 Cocoliztli epidemic — aged 70, Americas
- 1547 Ivan IV crowned Tsar — aged 72, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1555–1561 Saint Basil's Cathedral — aged 80, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1556 Shaanxi earthquake — aged 81, Asia
- 1556 Akbar and the Second Battle of Panipat — aged 81, Asia