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Bohdan Khmelnytsky
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Bohdan Khmelnytsky

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Born 1595 (Julian calendar) · died 27 July 1657 (Julian calendar), aged 61 or 62
Also known as Bohdan Khmelnytskyi

Who was alive at the same time as Bohdan Khmelnytsky?

  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. Bohdan Khmelnytsky, 1595 – 1657
  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 Bohdan Khmelnytsky was born, William Shakespeare was 30 or 31, Galileo Galilei was 30 or 31, Elizabeth I was 61 or 62, Francis Bacon was 33 or 34 and Johannes Kepler was 23 or 24.

When Bohdan Khmelnytsky died, Isaac Newton was 14, Molière was 35, John Locke was 24, Rembrandt was 51 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 11.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Peter the Great was born about 15 years after Bohdan Khmelnytsky died, Jonathan Swift was born about 10 years after Bohdan Khmelnytsky died, Daniel Defoe was born about 2 years after Bohdan Khmelnytsky died and Michel de Montaigne died about 3 years before Bohdan Khmelnytsky was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

174 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Bohdan Khmelnytsky. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1627.

  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. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  31. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  32. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  33. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  34. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  35. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  36. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  37. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  38. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  39. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  40. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  41. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  42. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  43. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  44. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  45. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  46. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  47. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  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. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  56. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  57. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  58. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  59. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  60. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  61. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  62. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  63. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  64. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  65. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  66. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  67. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  68. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  69. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  70. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  71. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  72. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  73. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  74. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  75. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  76. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  77. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  78. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  79. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  80. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  81. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  82. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  83. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  84. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  85. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  86. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  87. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  88. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  89. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  90. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  91. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  92. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  93. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  94. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  95. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  96. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  97. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  98. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  99. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  100. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  101. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  102. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  103. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  104. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  105. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  106. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  107. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  108. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  109. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  110. Osman II 1604 – 1622
  111. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  112. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  113. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  114. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  115. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  116. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  117. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  118. Murad IV 1612 – 1640
  119. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  120. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  121. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  122. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  123. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  124. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  125. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  126. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  127. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  128. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  129. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  130. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  131. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  132. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  133. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  134. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  135. François Fénelon 1651 – 1715
  136. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  137. Mumtaz Mahal 1593 – 1631
  138. Cyrano de Bergerac c. 1619 – 1655
  139. Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 – 1687
  140. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  141. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  142. Ivan Mazepa 1639 – 1709
  143. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  144. Marie de' Medici 1575 – 1642
  145. Ahmed II 1643 – 1695
  146. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598
  147. Christian IV of Denmark 1577 – 1648
  148. Jean-Baptiste Colbert 1619 – 1683
  149. William Penn 1644 – 1718
  150. Arcangelo Corelli 1653 – 1713