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Cyrano de Bergerac
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Cyrano de Bergerac

French novelist and playwright

Born c. 1619 · died 28 July 1655
Also known as Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac, Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac

Who was alive at the same time as Cyrano de Bergerac?

  1. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  2. Lope de Vega, 1562 – 1635
  3. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  4. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  5. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  6. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  7. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  8. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  9. Oliver Cromwell, 1599 – 1658
  10. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  11. John Milton, 1608 – 1674
  12. Cyrano de Bergerac, c. 1619 – 1655
  13. Jean de La Fontaine, 1621 – 1695
  14. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  15. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662
  16. Christiaan Huygens, 1629 – 1695
  17. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  18. Johannes Vermeer, 1632 – 1675
  19. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  20. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  21. Jean Racine, 1639 – 1699
  22. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  23. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  24. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716

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When Cyrano de Bergerac died, Isaac Newton was 12, Molière was 33, John Locke was 22, Rembrandt was 49 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 9.

Born during Cyrano de Bergerac’s lifetime: Isaac Newton, Molière, John Locke, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Matsuo Bashō, Blaise Pascal, Louis XIV and Baruch Spinoza.

Not quite contemporaries: William Shakespeare died about a year before Cyrano de Bergerac was born, Miguel de Cervantes died about a year before Cyrano de Bergerac was born, Elizabeth I died about 14 years before Cyrano de Bergerac was born and Akbar died about 12 years before Cyrano de Bergerac was born.

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The 134 best-known contemporaries

134 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Cyrano de Bergerac. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1638.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  4. Molière 1622 – 1673
  5. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  6. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  7. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  8. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  9. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  10. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  11. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  12. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  13. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  14. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  15. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  16. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  17. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  18. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  19. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  20. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  21. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  22. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  23. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  24. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  25. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  26. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  27. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  28. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  29. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  30. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  31. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  32. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  33. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  34. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  35. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  36. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  37. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  38. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  39. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  40. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  41. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  42. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  43. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  44. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  45. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  46. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  47. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  48. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  49. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  50. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  51. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  52. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  53. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  54. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  55. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  56. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  57. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  58. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  59. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  60. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  61. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  62. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  63. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  64. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  65. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  66. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  67. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  68. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  69. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  70. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  71. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  72. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  73. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  74. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  75. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  76. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  77. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  78. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  79. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  80. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  81. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  82. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  83. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  84. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  85. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  86. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  87. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  88. Osman II 1604 – 1622
  89. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  90. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  91. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  92. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  93. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  94. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  95. Murad IV 1612 – 1640
  96. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  97. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  98. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  99. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  100. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  101. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  102. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  103. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  104. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  105. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  106. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  107. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  108. François Fénelon 1651 – 1715
  109. Mumtaz Mahal 1593 – 1631
  110. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  111. Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 – 1687
  112. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  113. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  114. Ivan Mazepa 1639 – 1709
  115. Marie de' Medici 1575 – 1642
  116. Ahmed II 1643 – 1695
  117. Christian IV of Denmark 1577 – 1648
  118. Jean-Baptiste Colbert 1619 – 1683
  119. William Penn 1644 – 1718
  120. Arcangelo Corelli 1653 – 1713
  121. Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 – 1625
  122. George Herbert 1593 – 1633
  123. Francesco Borromini 1599 – 1667
  124. Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor 1608 – 1657
  125. Luis de Góngora 1561 – 1627
  126. Vincent de Paul 1581 – 1660
  127. Otto von Guericke 1602 – 1686
  128. Johannes Hevelius 1611 – 1687
  129. Evliya Çelebi 1611 – 1682
  130. Kangxi Emperor 1654 – 1722
  131. Dieterich Buxtehude c. 1638 – 1707
  132. Antonio Stradivari c. 1644 – 1737
  133. John IV of Portugal 1604 – 1656
  134. Pierre Gassendi 1592 – 1655