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Anthony van Dyck
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Anthony van Dyck

Artist

Born 22 March 1599 · died 9 December 1641, aged 42
Also known as A. v. Dyk, Antonie van Dyck, Vandicche

Who was alive at the same time as Anthony van Dyck?

  1. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  2. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  3. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  4. Tycho Brahe, 1546 – 1601
  5. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  6. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  7. Lope de Vega, 1562 – 1635
  8. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  9. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  10. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  11. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  12. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  13. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  14. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  15. Anthony van Dyck, 1599 – 1641
  16. Oliver Cromwell, 1599 – 1658
  17. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  18. John Milton, 1608 – 1674
  19. Jean de La Fontaine, 1621 – 1695
  20. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  21. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662
  22. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  23. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  24. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715

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When Anthony van Dyck was born, William Shakespeare was 34, Galileo Galilei was 35, René Descartes was 2, Elizabeth I was 65 and Francis Bacon was 38.

When Anthony van Dyck died, Galileo Galilei was 77, René Descartes was 45, Molière was 19, John Locke was 9 and Rembrandt was 35.

Born during Anthony van Dyck’s lifetime: Molière, John Locke, Rembrandt, Blaise Pascal, Louis XIV, Baruch Spinoza, John Milton and Jean de La Fontaine.

Not quite contemporaries: Isaac Newton was born about 2 years after Anthony van Dyck died, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born about 5 years after Anthony van Dyck died, Matsuo Bashō was born about 3 years after Anthony van Dyck died and Michel de Montaigne died about 7 years before Anthony van Dyck was born.

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The 140 best-known contemporaries

140 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Anthony van Dyck. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1620.

  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. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  7. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  8. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  9. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  10. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  11. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  12. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  13. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  14. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  15. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  16. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  17. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  18. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  19. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  20. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  21. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  22. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  23. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  24. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  25. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  26. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  27. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  28. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  29. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  30. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  31. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  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. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  37. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  38. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  39. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  40. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  41. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  42. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  43. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  44. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  45. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  46. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  47. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  48. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  49. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  50. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  51. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  52. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  53. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  54. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  55. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  56. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  57. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  58. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  59. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  60. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  61. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  62. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  63. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  64. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  65. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  66. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  67. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  68. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  69. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  70. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  71. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  72. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  73. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  74. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  75. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  76. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  77. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  78. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  79. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  80. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  81. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  82. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  83. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  84. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  85. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  86. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  87. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  88. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  89. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  90. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  91. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  92. Osman II 1604 – 1622
  93. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  94. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  95. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  96. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  97. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  98. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  99. Murad IV 1612 – 1640
  100. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  101. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  102. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  103. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  104. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  105. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  106. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  107. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  108. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  109. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  110. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  111. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  112. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  113. Mumtaz Mahal 1593 – 1631
  114. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  115. Cyrano de Bergerac c. 1619 – 1655
  116. Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 – 1687
  117. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  118. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  119. Ivan Mazepa 1639 – 1709
  120. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  121. Marie de' Medici 1575 – 1642
  122. Christian IV of Denmark 1577 – 1648
  123. Jean-Baptiste Colbert 1619 – 1683
  124. Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 – 1625
  125. George Herbert 1593 – 1633
  126. Pocahontas c. 1596 – 1617
  127. Francesco Borromini 1599 – 1667
  128. Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor 1608 – 1657
  129. Matteo Ricci 1552 – 1610
  130. Elizabeth Báthory 1560 – 1614
  131. Luis de Góngora 1561 – 1627
  132. Vincent de Paul 1581 – 1660
  133. Otto von Guericke 1602 – 1686
  134. Johannes Hevelius 1611 – 1687
  135. Evliya Çelebi 1611 – 1682
  136. Dieterich Buxtehude c. 1638 – 1707
  137. Charles IX of Sweden 1550 – 1611
  138. Tomás Luis de Victoria c. 1548 – 1611
  139. John IV of Portugal 1604 – 1656
  140. Pierre Gassendi 1592 – 1655