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Giovanni Domenico Cassini
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Giovanni Domenico Cassini

Italian mathematician and astronomer

Born 8 June 1625 · died 14 September 1712, aged 87
Also known as Gian Domenico Cassini

Who was alive at the same time as Giovanni Domenico Cassini?

  1. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  2. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  3. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  4. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  5. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  6. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  7. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  8. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  9. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662
  10. Giovanni Domenico Cassini, 1625 – 1712
  11. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  12. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  13. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  14. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  15. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  16. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  17. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  18. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  19. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  20. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  21. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  22. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  23. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  24. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778

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When Giovanni Domenico Cassini was born, Galileo Galilei was 61, René Descartes was 29, Molière was 3, Rembrandt was 18 and Blaise Pascal was 1.

When Giovanni Domenico Cassini died, Isaac Newton was 69, Johann Sebastian Bach was 27, Voltaire was 17, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was under a year old and Benjamin Franklin was 6.

Born during Giovanni Domenico Cassini’s lifetime: Isaac Newton, Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Benjamin Franklin, Carl Linnaeus, John Locke and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

Not quite contemporaries: William Shakespeare died about 9 years before Giovanni Domenico Cassini was born, Immanuel Kant was born about 12 years after Giovanni Domenico Cassini died, Miguel de Cervantes died about 9 years before Giovanni Domenico Cassini was born and Adam Smith was born about 11 years after Giovanni Domenico Cassini died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

212 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Giovanni Domenico Cassini. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1669.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  4. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  5. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  7. Molière 1622 – 1673
  8. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  9. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  10. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  11. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  12. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  13. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  14. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  15. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  16. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  17. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  18. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  19. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  20. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  21. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  22. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  23. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  24. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  25. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  26. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  27. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  28. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  29. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  30. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  31. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  32. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  33. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  34. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  35. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  36. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  37. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  38. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  39. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  40. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  41. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  42. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  43. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  44. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  45. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  46. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  47. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  48. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  49. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  50. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  51. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  52. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  53. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  54. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  55. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  56. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  57. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  58. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  59. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  60. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  61. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  62. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  63. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  64. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  65. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  66. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  67. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  68. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  69. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  70. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  71. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  72. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  73. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  74. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  75. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  76. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  77. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  78. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  79. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  80. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  81. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  82. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  83. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  84. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  85. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  86. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  87. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  88. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  89. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  90. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  91. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  92. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  93. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  94. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  95. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  96. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  97. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  98. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  99. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  100. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  101. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  102. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  103. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  104. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  105. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  106. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  107. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  108. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  109. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  110. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  111. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  112. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  113. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  114. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  115. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  116. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  117. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  118. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  119. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  120. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  121. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  122. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  123. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  124. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  125. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  126. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  127. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  128. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  129. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  130. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  131. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  132. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  133. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  134. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  135. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  136. Murad IV 1612 – 1640
  137. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  138. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  139. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  140. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  141. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  142. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  143. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  144. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  145. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  146. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  147. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  148. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  149. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  150. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637