Who Was Alive

Were Christiaan Huygens and Johann Sebastian Bach alive at the same time?

Yes. Christiaan Huygens and Johann Sebastian Bach were alive at the same time for 10 years, from 1685 to 1695.

Christiaan Huygens was 55 when Johann Sebastian Bach was born.

Johann Sebastian Bach was 10 when Christiaan Huygens died, aged 66.

Christiaan Huygens

Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer

Born 14 April 1629 · died 8 July 1695, aged 66

Johann Sebastian Bach

German composer

Born 21 March 1685 (Julian calendar) · died 28 July 1750, aged 65

  1. Galileo Galilei
  2. René Descartes
  3. Christiaan Huygens
  4. Isaac Newton
  5. Johann Sebastian Bach
  6. Voltaire
  7. Immanuel Kant
  8. George Washington
  9. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Christiaan Huygens and Johann Sebastian Bach in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.