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Artemisia Gentileschi
Artemisia Gentileschi, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Artemisia Gentileschi

Italian painter

Born 8 July 1593 · died 1653, aged 59 or 60
Also known as Artemissa del Gentileschy, Artemisia Lomi, Artemitia

Who was alive at the same time as Artemisia Gentileschi?

  1. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  2. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  3. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  4. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  5. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  6. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  7. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  8. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  9. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  10. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  11. Artemisia Gentileschi, 1593 – 1653
  12. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  13. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  14. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  15. John Milton, 1608 – 1674
  16. Jean de La Fontaine, 1621 – 1695
  17. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  18. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662
  19. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  20. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  21. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  22. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  23. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  24. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716

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When Artemisia Gentileschi was born, William Shakespeare was 29, Galileo Galilei was 29, Elizabeth I was 59, Francis Bacon was 32 and Johannes Kepler was 21.

When Artemisia Gentileschi died, Isaac Newton was 9 or 10, Molière was 30 or 31, John Locke was 20 or 21, Rembrandt was 46 or 47 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 6 or 7.

Born during Artemisia Gentileschi’s lifetime: Isaac Newton, René Descartes, Molière, John Locke, Rembrandt, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Matsuo Bashō and Blaise Pascal.

Not quite contemporaries: Jonathan Swift was born about 14 years after Artemisia Gentileschi died, Daniel Defoe was born about 6 years after Artemisia Gentileschi died, Michel de Montaigne died about a year before Artemisia Gentileschi was born and Mimar Sinan died about 5 years before Artemisia Gentileschi was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

173 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Artemisia Gentileschi. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1623.

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  3. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  4. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  5. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  6. Molière 1622 – 1673
  7. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  8. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  9. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  10. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  11. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  12. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  13. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  14. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  15. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  16. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  17. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  18. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  19. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  20. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  21. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  22. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  23. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  24. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  25. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  26. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  27. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  28. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  29. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  30. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  31. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  32. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  33. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  34. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  35. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  36. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  37. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  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. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  43. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  44. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  45. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  46. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  47. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  48. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  49. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  50. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  51. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  52. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  53. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  54. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  55. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  56. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  57. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  58. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  59. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  60. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  61. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  62. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  63. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  64. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  65. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  66. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  67. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  68. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  69. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  70. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  71. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  72. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  73. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  74. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  75. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  76. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  77. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  78. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  79. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  80. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  81. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  82. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  83. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  84. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  85. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  86. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  87. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  88. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  89. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  90. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  91. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  92. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  93. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  94. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  95. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  96. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  97. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  98. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  99. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  100. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  101. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  102. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  103. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  104. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  105. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  106. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  107. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  108. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  109. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  110. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  111. Osman II 1604 – 1622
  112. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  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. Murad IV 1612 – 1640
  120. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  121. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  122. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  123. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  124. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  125. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  126. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  127. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  128. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  129. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  130. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  131. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  132. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  133. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  134. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  135. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  136. François Fénelon 1651 – 1715
  137. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  138. Mumtaz Mahal 1593 – 1631
  139. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  140. Cyrano de Bergerac c. 1619 – 1655
  141. Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 – 1687
  142. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  143. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  144. Ivan Mazepa 1639 – 1709
  145. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  146. Marie de' Medici 1575 – 1642
  147. Ahmed II 1643 – 1695
  148. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593
  149. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598
  150. Christian IV of Denmark 1577 – 1648