Who Was Alive
Ahmed II
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Ahmed II

Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

Born 25 February 1643 · died 6 February 1695, aged 51
Also known as Achmet II

Who was alive at the same time as Ahmed II?

  1. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  2. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  3. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  4. Oliver Cromwell, 1599 – 1658
  5. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  6. John Milton, 1608 – 1674
  7. Jean de La Fontaine, 1621 – 1695
  8. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  9. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662
  10. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  11. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  12. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  13. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  14. Ahmed II, 1643 – 1695
  15. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  16. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  17. Daniel Defoe, c. 1661 – 1731
  18. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  19. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  20. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  21. George Frideric Handel, 1685 – 1759
  22. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  23. Montesquieu, 1689 – 1755
  24. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778

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When Ahmed II was born, Isaac Newton was under a year old, René Descartes was 46, Molière was 21, John Locke was 10 and Rembrandt was 36.

When Ahmed II died, Isaac Newton was 52, Johann Sebastian Bach was 9, Voltaire was under a year old, John Locke was 62 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 48.

Born during Ahmed II’s lifetime: Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Matsuo Bashō, Peter the Great, Antonio Vivaldi, Jonathan Swift and Montesquieu.

Not quite contemporaries: Galileo Galilei died about a year before Ahmed II was born, Benjamin Franklin was born about 11 years after Ahmed II died, Carl Linnaeus was born about 12 years after Ahmed II died and Leonhard Euler was born about 12 years after Ahmed II died.

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Where Ahmed II’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

155 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Ahmed II. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1669.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  3. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  4. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  5. Molière 1622 – 1673
  6. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  7. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  8. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  9. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  10. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  11. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  12. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  13. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  14. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  15. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  16. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  17. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  18. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  19. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  20. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  21. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  22. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  23. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  24. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  25. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  26. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  27. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  28. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  29. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  30. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  31. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  32. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  33. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  34. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  35. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  36. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  37. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  38. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  39. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  40. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  41. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  42. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  43. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  44. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  45. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  46. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  47. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  48. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  49. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  50. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  51. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  52. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  53. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  54. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  55. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  56. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  57. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  58. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  59. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  60. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  61. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  62. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  63. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  64. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  65. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  66. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  67. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  68. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  69. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  70. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  71. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  72. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  73. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  74. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  75. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  76. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  77. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  78. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  79. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  80. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  81. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  82. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  83. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  84. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  85. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  86. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  87. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  88. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  89. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  90. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  91. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  92. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  93. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  94. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  95. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  96. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  97. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  98. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  99. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  100. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  101. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  102. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  103. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  104. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  105. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  106. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  107. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  108. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  109. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  110. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  111. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  112. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  113. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  114. Guru Gobind Singh 1666 – 1708
  115. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  116. François Fénelon 1651 – 1715
  117. Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683 – 1764
  118. Antoine Watteau 1684 – 1721
  119. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  120. Cyrano de Bergerac c. 1619 – 1655
  121. Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 – 1687
  122. Prince Eugene of Savoy 1663 – 1736
  123. Domenico Scarlatti 1685 – 1757
  124. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  125. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  126. Ivan Mazepa 1639 – 1709
  127. Mustafa II 1664 – 1703
  128. Henry Purcell 1659 – 1695
  129. Blackbeard c. 1680 – 1718
  130. Christian IV of Denmark 1577 – 1648
  131. Jean-Baptiste Colbert 1619 – 1683
  132. William Penn 1644 – 1718
  133. Arcangelo Corelli 1653 – 1713
  134. Francesco Borromini 1599 – 1667
  135. Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor 1608 – 1657
  136. Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle 1657 – 1757
  137. Ivan V of Russia 1666 – 1696
  138. Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor 1678 – 1711
  139. Vincent de Paul 1581 – 1660
  140. Otto von Guericke 1602 – 1686
  141. Johannes Hevelius 1611 – 1687
  142. Evliya Çelebi 1611 – 1682
  143. Kangxi Emperor 1654 – 1722
  144. Frederick I of Prussia 1657 – 1713
  145. Dieterich Buxtehude c. 1638 – 1707
  146. Antonio Stradivari c. 1644 – 1737
  147. Augustus II the Strong 1670 – 1733
  148. François Quesnay 1694 – 1774
  149. John IV of Portugal 1604 – 1656
  150. Feodor III of Russia 1661 – 1682