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Claudio Monteverdi
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Claudio Monteverdi

Venetian composer and player

Born 15 May 1567 · died 29 November 1643, aged 76
Also known as Claudio Monteverde, Monteverdi

Who was alive at the same time as Claudio Monteverdi?

  1. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  2. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  3. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  4. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  5. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  6. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  7. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  8. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  9. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  10. Claudio Monteverdi, 1567 – 1643
  11. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  12. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  13. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  14. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  15. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  16. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  17. John Milton, 1608 – 1674
  18. Jean de La Fontaine, 1621 – 1695
  19. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  20. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662
  21. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  22. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  23. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  24. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727

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When Claudio Monteverdi was born, William Shakespeare was 3, Galileo Galilei was 3, Elizabeth I was 33, Francis Bacon was 6 and Akbar was 24.

When Claudio Monteverdi died, Isaac Newton was under a year old, René Descartes was 47, Molière was 21, John Locke was 11 and Rembrandt was 37.

Born during Claudio Monteverdi’s lifetime: Isaac Newton, René Descartes, Molière, John Locke, Rembrandt, Blaise Pascal, Johannes Kepler and Louis XIV.

Not quite contemporaries: Michelangelo died about 3 years before Claudio Monteverdi was born, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born about 3 years after Claudio Monteverdi died, Matsuo Bashō was born about a year after Claudio Monteverdi died and Jacques Cartier died about 10 years before Claudio Monteverdi was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

191 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Claudio Monteverdi. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1605.

  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. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  10. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  11. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  12. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  13. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  14. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  15. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  16. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  17. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  18. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  19. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  20. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  21. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  22. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  23. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  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. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  31. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  32. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  33. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  34. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  35. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  36. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  37. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  38. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  39. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  40. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  41. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  42. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  43. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  44. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  45. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  46. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  47. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  48. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  49. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  50. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  51. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  52. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  53. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  54. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  55. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  56. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  57. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  58. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  59. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  60. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  61. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  62. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  63. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  64. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  65. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  66. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  67. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  68. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  69. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  70. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  71. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  72. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  73. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  74. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  75. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  76. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  77. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  78. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  79. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  80. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  81. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  82. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  83. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  84. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  85. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  86. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  87. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  88. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  89. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  90. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  91. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  92. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  93. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  94. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  95. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  96. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  97. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  98. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  99. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  100. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  101. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  102. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  103. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  104. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  105. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  106. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  107. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  108. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  109. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  110. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  111. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  112. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  113. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  114. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  115. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  116. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  117. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  118. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  119. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  120. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  121. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  122. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  123. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  124. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  125. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  126. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  127. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  128. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  129. Osman II 1604 – 1622
  130. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  131. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  132. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  133. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  134. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  135. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  136. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  137. Murad IV 1612 – 1640
  138. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  139. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  140. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  141. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  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