Who Was Alive

Evangelista Torricelli

Italian physicist and mathematician

Born 15 October 1608 · died 25 October 1647, aged 39

Who was alive at the same time as Evangelista Torricelli?

  1. Miguel de Cervantes
  2. Francis Bacon
  3. Lope de Vega
  4. Galileo Galilei
  5. William Shakespeare
  6. Johannes Kepler
  7. Peter Paul Rubens
  8. Thomas Hobbes
  9. René Descartes
  10. Diego Velázquez
  11. Oliver Cromwell
  12. Rembrandt
  13. Evangelista Torricelli
  14. John Milton
  15. Jean de La Fontaine
  16. Molière
  17. Blaise Pascal
  18. Christiaan Huygens
  19. John Locke
  20. Benedictus de Spinoza
  21. Louis XIV of France
  22. Isaac Newton
  23. Matsuo Bashō
  24. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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When Evangelista Torricelli was born, William Shakespeare was 44, Galileo Galilei was 44, René Descartes was 12, Rembrandt was 2 and Francis Bacon was 47.

When Evangelista Torricelli died, Isaac Newton was 4, René Descartes was 51, Molière was 25, John Locke was 15 and Rembrandt was 41.

Born during Evangelista Torricelli’s lifetime: Isaac Newton, Molière, John Locke, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Matsuo Bashō, Blaise Pascal, Louis XIV of France and Benedictus de Spinoza.

Not quite contemporaries: Elizabeth I of England died 5 years before Evangelista Torricelli was born, Akbar died 3 years before Evangelista Torricelli was born, Giordano Bruno died 8 years before Evangelista Torricelli was born and Daniel Defoe was born 12 years after Evangelista Torricelli died.

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All 51 contemporaries we track

  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. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  13. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  14. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  15. Benedictus de Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  16. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  17. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  18. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  19. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  20. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  21. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  22. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  23. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  24. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  25. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  26. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  27. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  28. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  29. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  30. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  31. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  32. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  33. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  34. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  35. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  36. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  37. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  38. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  39. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  40. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  41. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  42. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  43. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  44. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  45. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  46. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  47. Louis XIII of France 1601 – 1643
  48. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  49. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  50. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  51. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644