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Francis de Sales
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Francis de Sales

French bishop and writer

Born 21 August 1567 · died 28 December 1622, aged 55
Also known as Saint Francis de Sales, St. Francis de Sales, Saint Francis of Sales

Who was alive at the same time as Francis de Sales?

  1. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  2. Ivan the Terrible, 1530 – 1584
  3. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  4. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  5. Francis Drake, c. 1540 – 1596
  6. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  7. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  8. Tycho Brahe, 1546 – 1601
  9. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  10. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  11. Lope de Vega, 1562 – 1635
  12. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  13. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  14. Francis de Sales, 1567 – 1622
  15. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  16. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  17. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  18. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  19. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  20. Oliver Cromwell, 1599 – 1658
  21. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  22. John Milton, 1608 – 1674
  23. Jean de La Fontaine, 1621 – 1695
  24. Molière, 1622 – 1673

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

When Francis de Sales died, Galileo Galilei was 58, René Descartes was 26, Molière was under a year old, Rembrandt was 16 and Francis Bacon was 61.

Born during Francis de Sales’s lifetime: René Descartes, Molière, Rembrandt, Johannes Kepler, Peter Paul Rubens, Diego Velázquez, Thomas Hobbes and John Milton.

Not quite contemporaries: Michelangelo died about 3 years before Francis de Sales was born, John Locke was born about 10 years after Francis de Sales died, Blaise Pascal was born about a year after Francis de Sales died and Baruch Spinoza was born about 10 years after Francis de Sales died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

160 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Francis de Sales. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1595.

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  4. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  5. Molière 1622 – 1673
  6. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  7. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  8. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  9. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  10. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  11. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  12. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  13. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  14. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  15. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  16. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  17. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  18. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  19. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  20. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  21. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  22. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  23. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  24. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  25. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  26. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  27. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  28. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  29. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  30. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  31. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  32. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  33. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  34. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  35. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  36. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  37. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  38. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  39. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  40. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  41. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  42. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  43. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  44. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  45. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  46. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  47. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  48. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  49. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  50. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  51. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  52. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  53. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  54. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  55. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  56. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  57. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  58. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  59. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  60. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  61. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  62. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  63. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  64. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  65. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  66. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  67. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  68. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  69. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  70. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  71. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  72. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  73. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  74. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  75. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  76. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  77. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  78. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  79. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  80. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  81. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  82. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  83. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  84. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  85. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  86. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  87. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  88. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  89. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  90. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  91. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  92. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  93. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  94. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  95. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  96. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  97. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  98. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  99. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  100. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  101. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  102. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  103. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  104. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  105. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  106. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  107. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  108. Osman II 1604 – 1622
  109. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  110. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  111. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  112. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  113. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  114. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  115. Murad IV 1612 – 1640
  116. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  117. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  118. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  119. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  120. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  121. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  122. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  123. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  124. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  125. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  126. Mumtaz Mahal 1593 – 1631
  127. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  128. Cyrano de Bergerac c. 1619 – 1655
  129. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  130. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  131. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  132. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  133. Marie de' Medici 1575 – 1642
  134. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  135. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593
  136. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598
  137. Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor 1527 – 1576
  138. Christian IV of Denmark 1577 – 1648
  139. Jean-Baptiste Colbert 1619 – 1683
  140. Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 – 1625
  141. George Herbert 1593 – 1633
  142. Pocahontas c. 1596 – 1617
  143. Francesco Borromini 1599 – 1667
  144. Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor 1608 – 1657
  145. Bronzino 1503 – 1572
  146. Matteo Ricci 1552 – 1610
  147. Feodor I of Russia 1557 – 1598
  148. Elizabeth Báthory 1560 – 1614
  149. Luis de Góngora 1561 – 1627
  150. Vincent de Paul 1581 – 1660