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Abbas the Great
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Abbas the Great

Safavid governor

Born 27 January 1571 · died 19 January 1629, aged 57
Also known as Abbas I of Safavid

Who was alive at the same time as Abbas the Great?

  1. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  2. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  3. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  4. Francis Drake, c. 1540 – 1596
  5. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  6. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  7. Tycho Brahe, 1546 – 1601
  8. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  9. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  10. Lope de Vega, 1562 – 1635
  11. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  12. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  13. Abbas the Great, 1571 – 1629
  14. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  15. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  16. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  17. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  18. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  19. Oliver Cromwell, 1599 – 1658
  20. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  21. John Milton, 1608 – 1674
  22. Jean de La Fontaine, 1621 – 1695
  23. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  24. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662

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When Abbas the Great was born, William Shakespeare was 6, Galileo Galilei was 6, Elizabeth I was 37, Francis Bacon was 10 and Akbar was 28.

When Abbas the Great died, Galileo Galilei was 64, René Descartes was 32, Molière was 7, Rembrandt was 22 and Blaise Pascal was 5.

Born during Abbas the Great’s lifetime: René Descartes, Molière, Rembrandt, Blaise Pascal, Johannes Kepler, Peter Paul Rubens, Diego Velázquez and Thomas Hobbes.

Not quite contemporaries: Isaac Newton was born about 14 years after Abbas the Great died, Michelangelo died about 7 years before Abbas the Great was born, John Locke was born about 3 years after Abbas the Great died and Matsuo Bashō was born about 15 years after Abbas the Great died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

166 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Abbas the Great. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1600.

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  4. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  5. Molière 1622 – 1673
  6. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  7. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  8. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  9. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  10. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  11. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  12. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  13. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  14. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  15. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  16. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  17. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  18. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  19. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  20. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  21. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  22. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  23. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  24. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  25. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  26. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  27. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  28. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  29. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  30. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  31. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  32. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  33. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  34. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  35. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  36. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  37. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  38. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  39. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  40. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  41. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  42. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  43. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  44. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  45. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  46. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  47. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  48. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  49. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  50. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  51. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  52. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  53. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  54. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  55. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  56. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  57. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  58. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  59. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  60. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  61. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  62. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  63. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  64. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  65. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  66. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  67. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  68. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  69. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  70. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  71. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  72. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  73. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  74. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  75. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  76. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  77. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  78. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  79. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  80. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  81. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  82. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  83. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  84. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  85. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  86. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  87. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  88. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  89. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  90. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  91. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  92. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  93. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  94. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  95. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  96. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  97. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  98. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  99. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  100. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  101. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  102. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  103. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  104. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  105. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  106. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  107. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  108. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  109. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  110. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  111. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  112. Osman II 1604 – 1622
  113. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  114. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  115. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  116. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  117. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  118. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  119. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  120. Murad IV 1612 – 1640
  121. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  122. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  123. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  124. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  125. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  126. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  127. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  128. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  129. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  130. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  131. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  132. Mumtaz Mahal 1593 – 1631
  133. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  134. Cyrano de Bergerac c. 1619 – 1655
  135. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  136. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  137. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  138. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  139. Marie de' Medici 1575 – 1642
  140. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  141. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593
  142. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598
  143. Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor 1527 – 1576
  144. Christian IV of Denmark 1577 – 1648
  145. Jean-Baptiste Colbert 1619 – 1683
  146. Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 – 1625
  147. George Herbert 1593 – 1633
  148. Pocahontas c. 1596 – 1617
  149. Francesco Borromini 1599 – 1667
  150. Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor 1608 – 1657