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Evliya Çelebi
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Evliya Çelebi

Ottoman traveler and writer

Born 25 March 1611 · died 1682, aged 70 or 71
Also known as Derviş Mehmed Zillî, Evliya Celebi

Who was alive at the same time as Evliya Çelebi?

  1. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  2. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  3. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  4. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  5. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  6. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  7. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  8. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  9. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  10. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  11. John Milton, 1608 – 1674
  12. Evliya Çelebi, 1611 – 1682
  13. Jean de La Fontaine, 1621 – 1695
  14. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  15. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662
  16. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  17. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  18. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  19. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  20. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  21. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  22. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  23. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  24. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741

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When Evliya Çelebi was born, William Shakespeare was 46, Galileo Galilei was 47, René Descartes was 14, Rembrandt was 4 and Francis Bacon was 50.

When Evliya Çelebi died, Isaac Newton was 38 or 39, John Locke was 49 or 50, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 35 or 36, Matsuo Bashō was 37 or 38 and Louis XIV was 43 or 44.

Born during Evliya Çelebi’s lifetime: Isaac Newton, Molière, John Locke, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Matsuo Bashō, Blaise Pascal, Louis XIV and Peter the Great.

Not quite contemporaries: Johann Sebastian Bach was born about 3 years after Evliya Çelebi died, Voltaire was born about 12 years after Evliya Çelebi died, Elizabeth I died about 8 years before Evliya Çelebi was born and Akbar died about 6 years before Evliya Çelebi was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

177 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Evliya Çelebi. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1647.

  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 1638 – 1715
  15. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  16. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  17. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  18. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  19. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  20. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  21. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  22. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  23. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  24. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  25. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  26. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  27. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  28. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  29. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  30. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  31. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  32. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  33. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  34. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  35. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  36. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  37. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  38. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  39. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  40. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  41. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  42. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  43. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  44. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  45. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  46. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  47. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  48. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  49. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  50. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  51. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  52. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  53. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  54. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  55. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  56. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  57. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  58. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  59. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  60. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  61. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  62. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  63. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  64. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  65. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  66. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  67. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  68. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  69. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  70. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  71. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  72. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  73. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  74. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  75. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  76. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  77. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  78. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  79. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  80. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  81. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  82. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  83. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  84. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  85. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  86. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  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. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  102. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  103. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  104. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  105. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  106. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  107. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  108. Osman II 1604 – 1622
  109. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  110. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  111. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  112. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  113. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  114. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  115. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  116. Murad IV 1612 – 1640
  117. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  118. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  119. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  120. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  121. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  122. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  123. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  124. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  125. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  126. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  127. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  128. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  129. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  130. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  131. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  132. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  133. Guru Gobind Singh 1666 – 1708
  134. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  135. François Fénelon 1651 – 1715
  136. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  137. Mumtaz Mahal 1593 – 1631
  138. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  139. Cyrano de Bergerac c. 1619 – 1655
  140. Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 – 1687
  141. Prince Eugene of Savoy 1663 – 1736
  142. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  143. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  144. Ivan Mazepa 1639 – 1709
  145. Mustafa II 1664 – 1703
  146. Marie de' Medici 1575 – 1642
  147. Ahmed II 1643 – 1695
  148. Henry Purcell 1659 – 1695
  149. Christian IV of Denmark 1577 – 1648
  150. Jean-Baptiste Colbert 1619 – 1683