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Arcangelo Corelli
Hugh Howard (1675-1737), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Arcangelo Corelli

Italian violinist and composer

Born 17 February 1653 · died 8 January 1713, aged 59
Also known as Korelli Arkanjello, Corelli

Who was alive at the same time as Arcangelo Corelli?

  1. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  2. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  3. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  4. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  5. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662
  6. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  7. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  8. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  9. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  10. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  11. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  12. Arcangelo Corelli, 1653 – 1713
  13. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  14. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  15. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  16. George Frideric Handel, 1685 – 1759
  17. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  18. Montesquieu, 1689 – 1755
  19. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  20. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  21. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  22. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  23. David Hume, 1711 – 1776
  24. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778

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When Arcangelo Corelli was born, Isaac Newton was 10, Molière was 31, John Locke was 20, Rembrandt was 46 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 6.

When Arcangelo Corelli died, Isaac Newton was 70, Johann Sebastian Bach was 27, Voltaire was 18, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was under a year old and Benjamin Franklin was 6.

Born during Arcangelo Corelli’s lifetime: Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Benjamin Franklin, Carl Linnaeus, Leonhard Euler, Peter the Great and Antonio Vivaldi.

Not quite contemporaries: Galileo Galilei died about 11 years before Arcangelo Corelli was born, René Descartes died about 3 years before Arcangelo Corelli was born, Immanuel Kant was born about 11 years after Arcangelo Corelli died and Adam Smith was born about 10 years after Arcangelo Corelli died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

174 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Arcangelo Corelli. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1683.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  3. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  4. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  5. Molière 1622 – 1673
  6. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  7. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  8. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  9. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  10. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  11. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  12. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  13. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  14. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  15. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  16. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  17. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  18. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  19. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  20. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  21. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  22. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  23. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  24. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  25. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  26. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  27. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  28. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  29. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  30. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  31. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  32. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  33. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  34. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  35. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  36. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  37. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  38. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  39. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  40. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  41. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  42. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  43. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  44. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  45. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  46. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  47. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  48. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  49. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  50. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  51. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  52. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  53. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  54. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  55. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  56. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  57. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  58. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  59. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  60. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  61. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  62. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  63. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  64. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  65. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  66. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  67. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  68. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  69. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  70. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  71. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  72. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  73. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  74. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  75. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  76. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  77. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  78. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  79. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  80. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  81. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  82. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  83. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  84. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  85. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  86. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  87. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  88. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  89. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  90. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  91. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  92. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  93. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  94. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  95. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  96. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  97. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  98. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  99. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  100. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  101. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  102. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  103. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  104. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  105. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  106. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  107. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  108. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  109. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  110. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  111. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  112. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  113. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  114. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  115. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  116. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  117. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  118. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  119. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  120. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  121. Guru Gobind Singh 1666 – 1708
  122. Canaletto 1697 – 1768
  123. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  124. François Fénelon 1651 – 1715
  125. Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683 – 1764
  126. Antoine Watteau 1684 – 1721
  127. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  128. Cyrano de Bergerac c. 1619 – 1655
  129. Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 – 1687
  130. Prince Eugene of Savoy 1663 – 1736
  131. Domenico Scarlatti 1685 – 1757
  132. Mahmud I 1696 – 1754
  133. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor 1708 – 1765
  134. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  135. Ivan Mazepa 1639 – 1709
  136. Mustafa II 1664 – 1703
  137. Ahmed II 1643 – 1695
  138. Henry Purcell 1659 – 1695
  139. Blackbeard c. 1680 – 1718
  140. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 1696 – 1770
  141. William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham 1708 – 1778
  142. Jean-Baptiste Colbert 1619 – 1683
  143. William Penn 1644 – 1718
  144. Osman III 1699 – 1757
  145. Francesco Borromini 1599 – 1667
  146. Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor 1608 – 1657
  147. Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle 1657 – 1757
  148. Ivan V of Russia 1666 – 1696
  149. Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor 1678 – 1711
  150. Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor 1697 – 1745