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Christian IV of Denmark
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Christian IV of Denmark

Monarch of Norway

Born 12 April 1577 · died 28 February 1648 (Julian calendar), aged 70
Also known as Christian IV, Christian den Fjerde

Who was alive at the same time as Christian IV of Denmark?

  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. Christian IV of Denmark, 1577 – 1648
  10. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  11. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  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 Christian IV of Denmark was born, William Shakespeare was 12 or 13, Galileo Galilei was 13, Elizabeth I was 43, Francis Bacon was 16 and Johannes Kepler was 5.

When Christian IV of Denmark died, Isaac Newton was 5, René Descartes was 51, Molière was 26, John Locke was 15 and Rembrandt was 41.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Michelangelo died about 13 years before Christian IV of Denmark was born, Suleiman the Magnificent died about 11 years before Christian IV of Denmark was born, Daniel Defoe was born about 11 years after Christian IV of Denmark died and John Calvin died about 13 years before Christian IV of Denmark was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

188 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Christian IV of Denmark. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1613.

  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. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  25. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  26. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  27. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  28. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  29. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  30. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  31. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  32. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  33. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  34. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  35. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  36. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  37. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  38. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  39. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  40. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  41. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  42. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  43. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  44. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  45. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  46. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  47. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  48. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  49. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  50. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  51. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  52. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  53. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  54. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  55. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  56. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  57. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  58. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  59. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  60. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  61. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  62. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  63. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  64. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  65. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  66. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  67. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  68. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  69. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  70. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  71. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  72. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  73. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  74. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  75. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  76. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  77. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  78. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  79. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  80. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  81. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  82. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  83. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  84. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  85. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  86. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  87. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  88. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  89. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  90. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  91. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  92. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  93. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  94. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  95. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  96. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  97. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  98. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  99. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  100. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  101. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  102. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  103. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  104. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  105. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  106. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  107. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  108. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  109. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  110. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  111. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  112. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  113. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  114. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  115. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  116. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  117. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  118. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  119. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  120. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  121. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  122. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  123. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  124. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  125. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  126. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  127. Osman II 1604 – 1622
  128. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  129. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  130. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  131. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  132. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  133. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  134. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  135. Murad IV 1612 – 1640
  136. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  137. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  138. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  139. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  140. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  141. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  142. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  143. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  144. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  145. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  146. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  147. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  148. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  149. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  150. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637