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Frans Hals
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Frans Hals

Dutch painter

Born 1580s · died 26 August 1666
Also known as Frans Hal, François Haals, Frankals

Who was alive at the same time as Frans Hals?

  1. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  2. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  3. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  4. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  5. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  6. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  7. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  8. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  9. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  10. Frans Hals, 1580s – 1666
  11. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  12. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  13. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  14. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  15. John Milton, 1608 – 1674
  16. Jean de La Fontaine, 1621 – 1695
  17. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  18. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662
  19. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  20. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  21. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  22. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  23. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  24. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716

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When Frans Hals died, Isaac Newton was 23, Molière was 44, John Locke was 33, Rembrandt was 60 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 20.

Born during Frans Hals’s lifetime: Isaac Newton, René Descartes, Molière, John Locke, Rembrandt, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Matsuo Bashō and Blaise Pascal.

Not quite contemporaries: Peter the Great was born about 6 years after Frans Hals died, Antonio Vivaldi was born about 12 years after Frans Hals died, Jonathan Swift was born about a year after Frans Hals died and Suleiman the Magnificent died about 14 years before Frans Hals was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

196 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Frans Hals. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1628.

  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. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  23. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  24. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  25. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  26. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  27. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  28. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  29. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  30. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  31. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  32. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  33. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  34. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  35. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  36. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  37. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  38. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  39. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  40. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  41. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  42. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  43. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  44. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  45. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  46. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  47. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  48. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  49. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  50. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  51. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  52. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  53. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  54. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  55. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  56. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  57. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  58. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  59. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  60. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  61. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  62. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  63. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  64. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  65. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  66. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  67. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  68. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  69. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  70. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  71. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  72. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  73. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  74. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  75. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  76. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  77. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  78. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  79. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  80. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  81. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  82. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  83. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  84. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  85. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  86. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  87. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  88. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  89. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  90. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  91. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  92. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  93. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  94. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  95. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  96. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  97. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  98. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  99. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  100. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  101. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  102. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  103. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  104. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  105. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  106. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  107. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  108. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  109. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  110. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  111. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  112. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  113. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  114. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  115. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  116. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  117. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  118. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  119. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  120. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  121. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  122. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  123. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  124. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  125. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  126. Osman II 1604 – 1622
  127. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  128. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  129. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  130. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  131. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  132. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  133. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  134. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  135. Murad IV 1612 – 1640
  136. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  137. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  138. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  139. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  140. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  141. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  142. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  143. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  144. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  145. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  146. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  147. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  148. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  149. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  150. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637