Who Was Alive
George Herbert
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George Herbert

Poet and priest

Born 3 April 1593 · died 1 March 1633, aged 39

Who was alive at the same time as George Herbert?

  1. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  2. Francis Drake, c. 1540 – 1596
  3. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  4. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  5. Tycho Brahe, 1546 – 1601
  6. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  7. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  8. Lope de Vega, 1562 – 1635
  9. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  10. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  11. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  12. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  13. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  14. George Herbert, 1593 – 1633
  15. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  16. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  17. Oliver Cromwell, 1599 – 1658
  18. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  19. John Milton, 1608 – 1674
  20. Jean de La Fontaine, 1621 – 1695
  21. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  22. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662
  23. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  24. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677

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When George Herbert was born, William Shakespeare was 28, Galileo Galilei was 29, Elizabeth I was 59, Francis Bacon was 32 and Johannes Kepler was 21.

When George Herbert died, Galileo Galilei was 69, René Descartes was 36, Molière was 11, John Locke was under a year old and Rembrandt was 26.

Born during George Herbert’s lifetime: René Descartes, Molière, John Locke, Rembrandt, Blaise Pascal, Baruch Spinoza, Diego Velázquez and John Milton.

Not quite contemporaries: Isaac Newton was born about 10 years after George Herbert died, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born about 13 years after George Herbert died, Matsuo Bashō was born about 11 years after George Herbert died and Louis XIV was born about 5 years after George Herbert died.

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The 147 best-known contemporaries

147 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as George Herbert. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1613.

  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. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  7. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  8. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  9. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  10. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  11. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  12. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  13. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  14. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  15. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  16. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  17. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  18. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  19. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  20. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  21. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  22. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  23. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  24. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  25. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  26. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  27. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  28. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  29. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  30. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  31. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  32. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  33. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  34. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  35. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  36. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  37. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  38. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  39. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  40. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  41. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  42. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  43. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  44. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  45. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  46. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  47. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  48. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  49. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  50. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  51. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  52. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  53. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  54. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  55. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  56. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  57. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  58. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  59. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  60. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  61. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  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. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  73. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  74. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  75. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  76. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  77. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  78. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  79. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  80. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  81. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  82. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  83. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  84. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  85. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  86. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  87. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  88. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  89. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  90. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  91. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  92. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  93. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  94. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  95. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  96. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  97. Osman II 1604 – 1622
  98. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  99. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  100. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  101. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  102. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  103. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  104. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  105. Murad IV 1612 – 1640
  106. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  107. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  108. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  109. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  110. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  111. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  112. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  113. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  114. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  115. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  116. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  117. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  118. Mumtaz Mahal 1593 – 1631
  119. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  120. Cyrano de Bergerac c. 1619 – 1655
  121. Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 – 1687
  122. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  123. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  124. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  125. Marie de' Medici 1575 – 1642
  126. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593
  127. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598
  128. Christian IV of Denmark 1577 – 1648
  129. Jean-Baptiste Colbert 1619 – 1683
  130. Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 – 1625
  131. Pocahontas c. 1596 – 1617
  132. Francesco Borromini 1599 – 1667
  133. Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor 1608 – 1657
  134. Matteo Ricci 1552 – 1610
  135. Feodor I of Russia 1557 – 1598
  136. Elizabeth Báthory 1560 – 1614
  137. Luis de Góngora 1561 – 1627
  138. Vincent de Paul 1581 – 1660
  139. Otto von Guericke 1602 – 1686
  140. Johannes Hevelius 1611 – 1687
  141. Evliya Çelebi 1611 – 1682
  142. Charles IX of Sweden 1550 – 1611
  143. Jean Bodin 1530 – 1596
  144. Joseph of Anchieta 1534 – 1597
  145. Tomás Luis de Victoria c. 1548 – 1611
  146. John IV of Portugal 1604 – 1656
  147. Pierre Gassendi 1592 – 1655