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François Viète
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François Viète

French mathematician

Born 1540 · died 23 February 1603, aged 62 or 63

Who was alive at the same time as François Viète?

  1. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  2. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  3. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  4. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  5. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  6. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  7. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  8. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  9. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500 – 1558
  10. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564
  11. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  12. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  13. François Viète, 1540 – 1603
  14. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  15. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  16. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  17. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  18. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  19. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  20. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  21. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  22. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  23. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  24. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660

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When François Viète was born, Michelangelo was 64 or 65, Martin Luther was 56 or 57, Nicolaus Copernicus was 66 or 67, Elizabeth I was 6 or 7 and Jacques Cartier was 48 or 49.

When François Viète died, William Shakespeare was 38, Galileo Galilei was 38, René Descartes was 6, Elizabeth I was 69 and Francis Bacon was 42.

Born during François Viète’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, René Descartes, Miguel de Cervantes, Francis Bacon, Johannes Kepler, Peter Paul Rubens and Akbar.

Not quite contemporaries: Niccolò Machiavelli died about 13 years before François Viète was born, Rembrandt was born about 3 years after François Viète died, Albrecht Dürer died about 12 years before François Viète was born and Erasmus died about 4 years before François Viète was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

182 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as François Viète. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1572.

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  4. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  5. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  6. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  7. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  8. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  9. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  10. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  11. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  12. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  13. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  14. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  15. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  16. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  17. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  18. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  19. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  20. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  21. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  22. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  23. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  24. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  25. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  26. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  27. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  28. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  29. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  30. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  31. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  32. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  33. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  34. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  35. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  36. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  37. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  38. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  39. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  40. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  41. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  42. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  43. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  44. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  45. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  46. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  47. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  48. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  49. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  50. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  51. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  52. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  53. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  54. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  55. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  56. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  57. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  58. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  59. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  60. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  61. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  62. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  63. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  64. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  65. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  66. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  67. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  68. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  69. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  70. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  71. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  72. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  73. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  74. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  75. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  76. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  77. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  78. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  79. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  80. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  81. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  82. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  83. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  84. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  85. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  86. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  87. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  88. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  89. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  90. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  91. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  92. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  93. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  94. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  95. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  96. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  97. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  98. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  99. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  100. Lady Jane Grey 1537 – 1554
  101. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  102. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  103. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  104. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  105. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  106. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  107. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  108. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  109. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  110. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  111. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  112. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  113. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  114. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  115. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  116. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  117. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  118. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  119. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  120. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  121. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  122. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  123. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  124. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  125. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  126. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  127. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  128. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  129. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  130. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  131. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  132. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  133. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  134. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  135. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  136. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  137. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  138. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  139. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  140. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  141. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  142. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  143. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  144. Francis II of France 1544 – 1560
  145. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  146. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  147. Mumtaz Mahal 1593 – 1631
  148. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  149. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  150. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572