Who Was Alive

Galileo Galilei

Italian polymath

Born 15 February 1564 · died 8 January 1642, aged 77

Who was alive at the same time as Galileo Galilei?

  1. Michelangelo
  2. Mimar Sinan
  3. Suleiman the Magnificent
  4. Michel de Montaigne
  5. Elizabeth I of England
  6. Akbar
  7. Miguel de Cervantes
  8. Giordano Bruno
  9. Francis Bacon
  10. Galileo Galilei
  11. William Shakespeare
  12. Johannes Kepler
  13. Peter Paul Rubens
  14. Thomas Hobbes
  15. René Descartes
  16. Diego Velázquez
  17. Rembrandt
  18. John Milton
  19. Jean de La Fontaine
  20. Molière
  21. Blaise Pascal
  22. John Locke
  23. Benedictus de Spinoza
  24. Louis XIV of France
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Galileo Galilei was born, Michelangelo was 88, Francis Bacon was 3, Elizabeth I of England was 30, Akbar was 21 and Suleiman the Magnificent was 69.

When Galileo Galilei died, René Descartes was 45, Molière was 19, John Locke was 9, Rembrandt was 35 and Blaise Pascal was 18.

Born during Galileo Galilei’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, René Descartes, Molière, John Locke, Rembrandt, Blaise Pascal, Johannes Kepler and Louis XIV of France.

Not quite contemporaries: Isaac Newton was born about a year after Galileo Galilei died, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born 4 years after Galileo Galilei died, Matsuo Bashō was born 2 years after Galileo Galilei died and Jacques Cartier died 7 years before Galileo Galilei was born.

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All 71 contemporaries we track

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  3. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  4. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  5. Molière 1622 – 1673
  6. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  7. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  8. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  9. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  10. Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603
  11. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  12. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  13. Benedictus de Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  14. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  15. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  16. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  17. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  18. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  19. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  20. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  21. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  22. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  23. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  24. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  25. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  26. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  27. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  28. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  29. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  30. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  31. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  32. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  33. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  34. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  35. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  36. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  37. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  38. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  39. Luís de Camões 1524–1525 – 1580
  40. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  41. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  42. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  43. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  44. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  45. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  46. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  47. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  48. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  49. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  50. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  51. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  52. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  53. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  54. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  55. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  56. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  57. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  58. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  59. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  60. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  61. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  62. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  63. Louis XIII of France 1601 – 1643
  64. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  65. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  66. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  67. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  68. Pieter Brueghel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  69. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  70. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  71. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644