Who Was Alive
Ahmed I
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Ahmed I

Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

Born 18 April 1590 · died 22 November 1617, aged 27
Also known as Achmet I

Who was alive at the same time as Ahmed I?

  1. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, 1525 – 1594
  2. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  3. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  4. Francis Drake, c. 1540 – 1596
  5. El Greco, 1541 – 1614
  6. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  7. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  8. Tycho Brahe, 1546 – 1601
  9. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  10. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  11. Lope de Vega, 1562 – 1635
  12. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  13. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  14. Caravaggio, 1571 – 1610
  15. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  16. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  17. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  18. Ahmed I, 1590 – 1617
  19. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  20. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  21. Oliver Cromwell, 1599 – 1658
  22. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  23. Pierre de Fermat, 1607 – 1665
  24. John Milton, 1608 – 1674

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When Ahmed I was born, William Shakespeare was 25 or 26, Galileo Galilei was 26, Elizabeth I was 56, Francis Bacon was 29 and Johannes Kepler was 18.

When Ahmed I died, Galileo Galilei was 53, René Descartes was 21, Rembrandt was 11, Francis Bacon was 56 and Johannes Kepler was 45.

Born during Ahmed I’s lifetime: René Descartes, Rembrandt, Diego Velázquez, John Milton, Oliver Cromwell, Pierre de Fermat, Charles I of England and Pierre Corneille.

Not quite contemporaries: Molière was born about 5 years after Ahmed I died, John Locke was born about 15 years after Ahmed I died, Blaise Pascal was born about 6 years after Ahmed I died and Jean de La Fontaine was born about 4 years after Ahmed I died.

What happened in Ahmed I’s lifetime

Where Ahmed I’s contemporaries were born

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The 129 best-known contemporaries

129 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Ahmed I. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1604.

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  4. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  5. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  6. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  7. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  8. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  9. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  10. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  11. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  12. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  13. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  14. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  15. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  16. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  17. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  18. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  19. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  20. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  21. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  22. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  23. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  24. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  25. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  26. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  27. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  28. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  29. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  30. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  31. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  32. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  33. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  34. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  35. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  36. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  37. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  38. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  39. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  40. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  41. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  42. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  43. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  44. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  45. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  46. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  47. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  48. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  49. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  50. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  51. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  52. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  53. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  54. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  55. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  56. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  57. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  58. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  59. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  60. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  61. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  62. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  63. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  64. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  65. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  66. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  67. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  68. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  69. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  70. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  71. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  72. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  73. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  74. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  75. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  76. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  77. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  78. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  79. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  80. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  81. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  82. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  83. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  84. Osman II 1604 – 1622
  85. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  86. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  87. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  88. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  89. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  90. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  91. Murad IV 1612 – 1640
  92. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  93. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  94. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  95. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  96. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  97. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  98. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  99. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  100. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  101. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  102. Mumtaz Mahal 1593 – 1631
  103. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  104. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  105. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  106. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  107. Marie de' Medici 1575 – 1642
  108. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593
  109. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598
  110. Christian IV of Denmark 1577 – 1648
  111. Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 – 1625
  112. George Herbert 1593 – 1633
  113. Pocahontas c. 1596 – 1617
  114. Francesco Borromini 1599 – 1667
  115. Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor 1608 – 1657
  116. Matteo Ricci 1552 – 1610
  117. Feodor I of Russia 1557 – 1598
  118. Elizabeth Báthory 1560 – 1614
  119. Luis de Góngora 1561 – 1627
  120. Vincent de Paul 1581 – 1660
  121. Otto von Guericke 1602 – 1686
  122. Johannes Hevelius 1611 – 1687
  123. Evliya Çelebi 1611 – 1682
  124. Charles IX of Sweden 1550 – 1611
  125. Jean Bodin 1530 – 1596
  126. Joseph of Anchieta 1534 – 1597
  127. Tomás Luis de Victoria c. 1548 – 1611
  128. John IV of Portugal 1604 – 1656
  129. Pierre Gassendi 1592 – 1655