Who Was Alive
Gustavus Adolphus
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Gustavus Adolphus

Monarch of Sweden

Born 9 December 1594 (Julian calendar) · died 6 November 1632 (Julian calendar), aged 37
Also known as Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, Gustavus II Adolphus, The Father of Modern Warfare

Who was alive at the same time as Gustavus Adolphus?

  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. Gustavus Adolphus, 1594 – 1632
  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. Christiaan Huygens, 1629 – 1695
  24. John Locke, 1632 – 1704

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When Gustavus Adolphus was born, William Shakespeare was 30, Galileo Galilei was 30, Elizabeth I was 61, Francis Bacon was 33 and Johannes Kepler was 22.

When Gustavus Adolphus died, Galileo Galilei was 68, René Descartes was 36, Molière was 10, John Locke was under a year old and Rembrandt was 26.

Born during Gustavus Adolphus’s lifetime: René Descartes, Molière, John Locke, Rembrandt, Blaise Pascal, Diego Velázquez, John Milton and Jean de La Fontaine.

Not quite contemporaries: Isaac Newton was born about 11 years after Gustavus Adolphus died, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born about 14 years after Gustavus Adolphus died, Matsuo Bashō was born about 12 years after Gustavus Adolphus died and Louis XIV was born about 6 years after Gustavus Adolphus died.

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The 140 best-known contemporaries

140 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Gustavus Adolphus. 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. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  13. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  14. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  15. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  16. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  17. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  18. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  19. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  20. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  21. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  22. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  23. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  24. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  25. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  26. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  27. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  28. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  29. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  30. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  31. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  32. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  33. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  34. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  35. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  36. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  37. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  38. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  39. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  40. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  41. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  42. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  43. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  44. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  45. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  46. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  47. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  48. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  49. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  50. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  51. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  52. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  53. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  54. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  55. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  56. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  57. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  58. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  59. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  60. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  61. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  62. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  63. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  64. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  65. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  66. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  67. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  68. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  69. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  70. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  71. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  72. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  73. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  74. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  75. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  76. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  77. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  78. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  79. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  80. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  81. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  82. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  83. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  84. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  85. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  86. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  87. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  88. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  89. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  90. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  91. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  92. Osman II 1604 – 1622
  93. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  94. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  95. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  96. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  97. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  98. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  99. Murad IV 1612 – 1640
  100. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  101. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  102. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  103. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  104. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  105. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  106. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  107. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  108. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  109. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  110. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  111. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  112. Mumtaz Mahal 1593 – 1631
  113. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  114. Cyrano de Bergerac c. 1619 – 1655
  115. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  116. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  117. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  118. Marie de' Medici 1575 – 1642
  119. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598
  120. Christian IV of Denmark 1577 – 1648
  121. Jean-Baptiste Colbert 1619 – 1683
  122. Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 – 1625
  123. George Herbert 1593 – 1633
  124. Pocahontas c. 1596 – 1617
  125. Francesco Borromini 1599 – 1667
  126. Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor 1608 – 1657
  127. Matteo Ricci 1552 – 1610
  128. Feodor I of Russia 1557 – 1598
  129. Elizabeth Báthory 1560 – 1614
  130. Luis de Góngora 1561 – 1627
  131. Vincent de Paul 1581 – 1660
  132. Otto von Guericke 1602 – 1686
  133. Johannes Hevelius 1611 – 1687
  134. Evliya Çelebi 1611 – 1682
  135. Charles IX of Sweden 1550 – 1611
  136. Jean Bodin 1530 – 1596
  137. Joseph of Anchieta 1534 – 1597
  138. Tomás Luis de Victoria c. 1548 – 1611
  139. John IV of Portugal 1604 – 1656
  140. Pierre Gassendi 1592 – 1655