Who Was Alive
Francisco de Zurbarán
Francisco de Zurbarán, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Francisco de Zurbarán

Spanish painter

Born c. 1598 · died 27 August 1664
Also known as Fransisko Surbaran, Francisco De Zurbaran, Francisco Zurbarán

Who was alive at the same time as Francisco de Zurbarán?

  1. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  2. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  3. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  4. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  5. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  6. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  7. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  8. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  9. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  10. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  11. Francisco de Zurbarán, c. 1598 – 1664
  12. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  13. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  14. John Milton, 1608 – 1674
  15. Jean de La Fontaine, 1621 – 1695
  16. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  17. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662
  18. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  19. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  20. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  21. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  22. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  23. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  24. Daniel Defoe, c. 1661 – 1731

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When Francisco de Zurbarán died, Isaac Newton was 21, Molière was 42, John Locke was 31, Rembrandt was 58 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 18.

Born during Francisco de Zurbarán’s lifetime: Isaac Newton, Molière, John Locke, Rembrandt, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Matsuo Bashō, Blaise Pascal and Louis XIV.

Not quite contemporaries: Peter the Great was born about 8 years after Francisco de Zurbarán died, Antonio Vivaldi was born about 14 years after Francisco de Zurbarán died, Jonathan Swift was born about 3 years after Francisco de Zurbarán died and Michel de Montaigne died about 4 years before Francisco de Zurbarán was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

172 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Francisco de Zurbarán. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1632.

  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. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  13. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  14. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  15. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  16. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  17. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  18. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  19. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  20. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  21. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  22. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  23. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  24. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  25. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  26. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  27. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  28. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  29. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  30. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  31. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  32. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  33. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  34. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  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. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  41. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  42. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  43. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  44. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  45. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  46. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  47. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  48. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  49. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  50. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  51. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  52. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  53. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  54. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  55. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  56. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  57. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  58. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  59. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  60. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  61. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  62. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  63. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  64. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  65. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  66. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  67. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  68. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  69. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  70. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  71. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  72. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  73. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  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. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  80. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  81. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  82. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  83. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  84. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  85. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  86. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  87. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  88. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  89. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  90. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  91. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  92. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  93. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  94. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  95. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  96. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  97. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  98. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  99. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  100. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  101. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  102. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  103. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  104. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  105. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  106. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  107. Osman II 1604 – 1622
  108. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  109. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  110. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  111. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  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. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  118. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  119. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  120. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  121. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  122. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  123. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  124. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  125. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  126. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  127. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  128. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  129. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  130. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  131. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  132. François Fénelon 1651 – 1715
  133. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  134. Mumtaz Mahal 1593 – 1631
  135. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  136. Cyrano de Bergerac c. 1619 – 1655
  137. Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 – 1687
  138. Prince Eugene of Savoy 1663 – 1736
  139. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  140. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  141. Ivan Mazepa 1639 – 1709
  142. Mustafa II 1664 – 1703
  143. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  144. Marie de' Medici 1575 – 1642
  145. Ahmed II 1643 – 1695
  146. Henry Purcell 1659 – 1695
  147. Christian IV of Denmark 1577 – 1648
  148. Jean-Baptiste Colbert 1619 – 1683
  149. William Penn 1644 – 1718
  150. Arcangelo Corelli 1653 – 1713