Who Was Alive
Guru Gobind Singh
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Guru Gobind Singh

Guru

Born 22 December 1666 · died 7 October 1708, aged 41
Also known as Gobind Rai, Guru Gobind Rai, Dashmesh Pita

Who was alive at the same time as Guru Gobind Singh?

  1. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  2. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  3. John Milton, 1608 – 1674
  4. Jean de La Fontaine, 1621 – 1695
  5. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  6. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  7. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  8. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  9. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  10. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  11. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  12. Daniel Defoe, c. 1661 – 1731
  13. Guru Gobind Singh, 1666 – 1708
  14. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  15. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  16. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  17. George Frideric Handel, 1685 – 1759
  18. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  19. Alexander Pope, 1688 – 1744
  20. Montesquieu, 1689 – 1755
  21. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  22. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  23. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  24. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778

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When Guru Gobind Singh was born, Isaac Newton was 23, Molière was 44, John Locke was 34, Rembrandt was 60 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 20.

When Guru Gobind Singh died, Isaac Newton was 65, Johann Sebastian Bach was 23, Voltaire was 13, Benjamin Franklin was 2 and Carl Linnaeus was 1.

Born during Guru Gobind Singh’s lifetime: Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin, Carl Linnaeus, Leonhard Euler, Peter the Great, Antonio Vivaldi and Jonathan Swift.

Not quite contemporaries: Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born about 4 years after Guru Gobind Singh died, Adam Smith was born about 15 years after Guru Gobind Singh died, Blaise Pascal died about 4 years before Guru Gobind Singh was born and Diego Velázquez died about 6 years before Guru Gobind Singh was born.

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The 143 best-known contemporaries

143 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Guru Gobind Singh. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1687.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  3. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  4. Molière 1622 – 1673
  5. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  6. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  7. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  8. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  9. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  10. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  11. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  12. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  13. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  14. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  15. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  16. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  17. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  18. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  19. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  20. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  21. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  22. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  23. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  24. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  25. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  26. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  27. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  28. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  29. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  30. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  31. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  32. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  33. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  34. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  35. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  36. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  37. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  38. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  39. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  40. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  41. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  42. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  43. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  44. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  45. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  46. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  47. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  48. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  49. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  50. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  51. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  52. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  53. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  54. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  55. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  56. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  57. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  58. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  59. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  60. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  61. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  62. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  63. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  64. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  65. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  66. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  67. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  68. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  69. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  70. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  71. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  72. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  73. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  74. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  75. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  76. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  77. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  78. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  79. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  80. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  81. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  82. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  83. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  84. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  85. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  86. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  87. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  88. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  89. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  90. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  91. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  92. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  93. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  94. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  95. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  96. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  97. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  98. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  99. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  100. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  101. Canaletto 1697 – 1768
  102. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  103. François Fénelon 1651 – 1715
  104. Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683 – 1764
  105. Antoine Watteau 1684 – 1721
  106. Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 – 1687
  107. Prince Eugene of Savoy 1663 – 1736
  108. Domenico Scarlatti 1685 – 1757
  109. Mahmud I 1696 – 1754
  110. Ivan Mazepa 1639 – 1709
  111. Mustafa II 1664 – 1703
  112. Ahmed II 1643 – 1695
  113. Henry Purcell 1659 – 1695
  114. Blackbeard c. 1680 – 1718
  115. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 1696 – 1770
  116. Jean-Baptiste Colbert 1619 – 1683
  117. William Penn 1644 – 1718
  118. Arcangelo Corelli 1653 – 1713
  119. Osman III 1699 – 1757
  120. Francesco Borromini 1599 – 1667
  121. Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle 1657 – 1757
  122. Ivan V of Russia 1666 – 1696
  123. Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor 1678 – 1711
  124. Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor 1697 – 1745
  125. Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab 1703 – 1792
  126. Otto von Guericke 1602 – 1686
  127. Johannes Hevelius 1611 – 1687
  128. Evliya Çelebi 1611 – 1682
  129. Kangxi Emperor 1654 – 1722
  130. Frederick I of Prussia 1657 – 1713
  131. Dieterich Buxtehude c. 1638 – 1707
  132. Antonio Stradivari c. 1644 – 1737
  133. Émilie du Châtelet 1706 – 1749
  134. Augustus II the Strong 1670 – 1733
  135. François Quesnay 1694 – 1774
  136. Pietro Metastasio 1698 – 1782
  137. Feodor III of Russia 1661 – 1682
  138. Tomaso Albinoni 1671 – 1751
  139. Christian Wolff 1679 – 1754
  140. Pierre de Marivaux 1688 – 1763
  141. Frederick William I of Prussia 1688 – 1740
  142. Louis I of Spain 1707 – 1724
  143. François Boucher 1703 – 1770