Who Was Alive

Christopher Marlowe

English dramatist, poet and translator

Born c. 1564 · died 30 May 1593 (Julian calendar)

Who was alive at the same time as Christopher Marlowe?

  1. Mimar Sinan
  2. Suleiman the Magnificent
  3. Nostradamus
  4. Luís de Camões
  5. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
  6. Philip II of Spain
  7. Ivan the Terrible
  8. Michel de Montaigne
  9. Elizabeth I of England
  10. Francis Drake
  11. El Greco
  12. Akbar
  13. Miguel de Cervantes
  14. Tycho Brahe
  15. Giordano Bruno
  16. Francis Bacon
  17. Christopher Marlowe
  18. Lope de Vega
  19. Galileo Galilei
  20. William Shakespeare
  21. Caravaggio
  22. Johannes Kepler
  23. Peter Paul Rubens
  24. Thomas Hobbes
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When Christopher Marlowe died, William Shakespeare was 29, Galileo Galilei was 29, Francis Bacon was 32, Elizabeth I of England was 59 and Johannes Kepler was 21.

Born during Christopher Marlowe’s lifetime: Johannes Kepler, Peter Paul Rubens, Thomas Hobbes, Caravaggio, Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu, Shah Jahan, John Donne and John Amos Comenius.

Not quite contemporaries: René Descartes was born 3 years after Christopher Marlowe died, Rembrandt was born 13 years after Christopher Marlowe died, Hernán Cortés died 15 years before Christopher Marlowe was born and Diego Velázquez was born 6 years after Christopher Marlowe died.

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All 39 contemporaries we track

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  4. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  5. Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603
  6. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  7. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  8. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  9. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  10. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  11. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  12. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  13. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  14. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  15. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  16. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  17. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  18. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  19. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  20. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  21. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  22. Luís de Camões 1524–1525 – 1580
  23. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  24. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  25. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  26. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  27. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  28. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  29. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  30. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  31. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  32. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  33. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  34. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  35. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  36. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  37. Pieter Brueghel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  38. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  39. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644