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Dieterich Buxtehude
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Dieterich Buxtehude

Danish organist and composer

Born 1635–1640 · died 9 May 1707
Also known as Dietrich Buxtehude, Diderich Buxtehude, Buxtehude

Who was alive at the same time as Dieterich Buxtehude?

  1. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  2. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  3. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  4. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  5. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  6. John Milton, 1608 – 1674
  7. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  8. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662
  9. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  10. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  11. Dieterich Buxtehude, c. 1638 – 1707
  12. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  13. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  14. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  15. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  16. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  17. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  18. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  19. George Frideric Handel, 1685 – 1759
  20. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  21. Montesquieu, 1689 – 1755
  22. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  23. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  24. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783

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When Dieterich Buxtehude died, Isaac Newton was 64, Johann Sebastian Bach was 22, Voltaire was 12, Benjamin Franklin was 1 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 60.

Born during Dieterich Buxtehude’s lifetime: Isaac Newton, Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Matsuo Bashō, Leonhard Euler and Peter the Great.

Not quite contemporaries: Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born about 5 years after Dieterich Buxtehude died, Carl Linnaeus was born months after Dieterich Buxtehude died, Francis Bacon died about 9 years before Dieterich Buxtehude was born and Johannes Kepler died about 5 years before Dieterich Buxtehude was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

178 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Dieterich Buxtehude. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1674.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  4. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  5. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  6. Molière 1622 – 1673
  7. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  8. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  9. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  10. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  11. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  12. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  13. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  14. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  15. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  16. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  17. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  18. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  19. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  20. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  21. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  22. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  23. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  24. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  25. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  26. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  27. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  28. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  29. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  30. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  31. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  32. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  33. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  34. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  35. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  36. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  37. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  38. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  39. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  40. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  41. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  42. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  43. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  44. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  45. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  46. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  47. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  48. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  49. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  50. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  51. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  52. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  53. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  54. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  55. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  56. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  57. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  58. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  59. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  60. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  61. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  62. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  63. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  64. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  65. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  66. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  67. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  68. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  69. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  70. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  71. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  72. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  73. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  74. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  75. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  76. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  77. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  78. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  79. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  80. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  81. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  82. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  83. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  84. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  85. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  86. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  87. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  88. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  89. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  90. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  91. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  92. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  93. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  94. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  95. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  96. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  97. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  98. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  99. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  100. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  101. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  102. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  103. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  104. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  105. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  106. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  107. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  108. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  109. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  110. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  111. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  112. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  113. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  114. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  115. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  116. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  117. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  118. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  119. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  120. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  121. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  122. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  123. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  124. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  125. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  126. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  127. Guru Gobind Singh 1666 – 1708
  128. Canaletto 1697 – 1768
  129. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  130. François Fénelon 1651 – 1715
  131. Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683 – 1764
  132. Antoine Watteau 1684 – 1721
  133. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  134. Cyrano de Bergerac c. 1619 – 1655
  135. Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 – 1687
  136. Prince Eugene of Savoy 1663 – 1736
  137. Domenico Scarlatti 1685 – 1757
  138. Mahmud I 1696 – 1754
  139. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  140. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  141. Ivan Mazepa 1639 – 1709
  142. Mustafa II 1664 – 1703
  143. Marie de' Medici 1575 – 1642
  144. Ahmed II 1643 – 1695
  145. Henry Purcell 1659 – 1695
  146. Blackbeard c. 1680 – 1718
  147. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 1696 – 1770
  148. Christian IV of Denmark 1577 – 1648
  149. Jean-Baptiste Colbert 1619 – 1683
  150. William Penn 1644 – 1718