Mirabai
c. 1498 – 1547 · 49 years · Chittor · Asia
Rajput princess who renounced court life for devotion to Krishna; her bhajans are still sung across India.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Michelangelo — sculptor, painter and architect, 23 years older
- Martin Luther — church reformer, 15 years older
- Nicolaus Copernicus — astronomer, 25 years older
- Leonardo da Vinci — painter, scientist and inventor, 46 years older
- Elizabeth I — Queen of England, 35 years younger
- Henry VIII — king of six wives who broke with Rome and created the Church of England, 7 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Ivan the Terrible — first Tsar of Russia, 32 years younger
- Vasily III — grand prince who completed the unification of the Russian lands, 19 years older
- Yermak Timofeyevich — Cossack conqueror of Siberia, 34 years younger
Middle East
- Suleiman the Magnificent — Ottoman sultan, 4 years older
- Hurrem Sultan (Roxelana) — wife of Sultan Suleiman I, 7 years younger
- Selim II — sultan who took Cyprus and lost at Lepanto, 26 years younger
- Selim I the Grim — sultan who took Cairo and Mecca, 28 years older
- Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf — Ottoman astronomer and engineer, 28 years younger
- Bayezid II — sultan who took in the Jews expelled from Spain, 51 years older
Africa
- Askia Muhammad I — Emperor of Songhai, 55 years older
- Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi — Adal imam and general, 8 years younger
Asia
- Guru Nanak — founder of Sikhism, 29 years older
- Babur — founder of the Mughal Empire, 15 years older
- Vasco da Gama — navigator, 29 years older
- Oda Nobunaga — Japanese warlord, 36 years younger
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi — unifier of Japan, 39 years younger
- Ashikaga Yoshiaki — last Ashikaga shogun, expelled by Nobunaga, 39 years younger
Americas
- Bartolomé de las Casas — friar and defender of Native Americans, 14 years older
- Hernán Cortés — conquistador, 13 years older
- Atahualpa — last Inca emperor, 4 years younger
- Ferdinand Magellan — navigator, 18 years older
- Moctezuma II — Aztec emperor, 32 years older
- Huayna Capac — Sapa Inca, 34 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 1498 Vasco da Gama reaches India — aged 0, Asia
- 1501 Founding of Safavid Iran — aged 3, Middle East
- 1508–1512 Sistine Chapel ceiling — aged 10, Europe
- 1511 Portuguese capture of Malacca — aged 13, Asia
- 1517 Luther's Ninety-five Theses — aged 19, Europe
- 1519–1522 Magellan's circumnavigation — aged 21, Americas
- 1520–1566 Reign of Suleiman the Magnificent — aged 22, Middle East
- 1521 Fall of Tenochtitlan — aged 23, Americas
- 1526 First Battle of Panipat — aged 28, Asia
- 1526 Battle of Mohács — aged 28, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1529–1543 Ahmad Gragn invades Ethiopia — aged 31, Africa
- 1532 Capture of Atahualpa at Cajamarca — aged 34, Americas
- 1534 Henry VIII breaks with Rome — aged 36, Europe
- 1542 Orellana sails down the Amazon — aged 44, Americas
- 1543 Copernicus publishes heliocentrism — aged 45, Europe
- 1545–1548 Cocoliztli epidemic — aged 47, Americas
- 1547 Ivan IV crowned Tsar — aged 49, Eastern Europe & Russia