Who Was Alive
Guy Fawkes
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Guy Fawkes

English soldier

Born c. 1570 · died 31 January 1606 (Julian calendar)
Also known as John Johnson, Guido Fawkes

Who was alive at the same time as Guy Fawkes?

  1. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  2. Luís de Camões, c. 1525 – 1580
  3. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, 1525 – 1594
  4. Ivan the Terrible, 1530 – 1584
  5. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  6. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  7. Francis Drake, c. 1540 – 1596
  8. El Greco, 1541 – 1614
  9. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  10. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  11. Tycho Brahe, 1546 – 1601
  12. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  13. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  14. Lope de Vega, 1562 – 1635
  15. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  16. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  17. Guy Fawkes, c. 1570 – 1606
  18. Caravaggio, 1571 – 1610
  19. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  20. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  21. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  22. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  23. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  24. Oliver Cromwell, 1599 – 1658

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When Guy Fawkes died, William Shakespeare was 41, Galileo Galilei was 41, René Descartes was 9, Francis Bacon was 45 and Johannes Kepler was 34.

Born during Guy Fawkes’s lifetime: René Descartes, Peter Paul Rubens, Diego Velázquez, Thomas Hobbes, Oliver Cromwell, Charles I of England, Pedro Calderón de la Barca and Cardinal Richelieu.

Not quite contemporaries: Michelangelo died about 4 years before Guy Fawkes was born, Rembrandt was born months after Guy Fawkes died, Jacques Cartier died about 11 years before Guy Fawkes was born and John Milton was born about 2 years after Guy Fawkes died.

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The 138 best-known contemporaries

138 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Guy Fawkes. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1589.

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  4. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  5. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  6. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  7. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  8. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  9. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  10. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  11. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  12. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  13. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  14. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  15. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  16. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  17. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  18. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  19. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  20. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  21. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  22. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  23. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  24. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  25. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  26. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  27. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  28. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  29. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  30. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  31. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  32. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  33. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  34. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  35. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  36. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  37. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  38. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  39. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  40. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  41. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  42. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  43. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  44. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  45. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  46. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  47. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  48. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  49. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  50. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  51. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  52. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  53. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  54. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  55. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  56. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  57. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  58. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  59. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  60. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  61. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  62. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  63. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  64. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  65. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  66. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  67. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  68. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  69. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  70. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  71. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  72. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  73. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  74. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  75. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  76. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  77. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  78. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  79. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  80. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  81. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  82. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  83. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  84. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  85. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  86. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  87. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  88. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  89. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  90. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  91. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  92. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  93. Osman II 1604 – 1622
  94. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  95. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  96. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  97. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  98. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  99. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  100. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  101. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  102. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  103. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  104. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  105. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  106. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  107. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  108. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  109. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  110. Mumtaz Mahal 1593 – 1631
  111. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  112. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  113. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  114. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  115. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  116. Marie de' Medici 1575 – 1642
  117. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593
  118. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598
  119. Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor 1527 – 1576
  120. Christian IV of Denmark 1577 – 1648
  121. Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 – 1625
  122. George Herbert 1593 – 1633
  123. Pocahontas c. 1596 – 1617
  124. Francesco Borromini 1599 – 1667
  125. Bronzino 1503 – 1572
  126. Matteo Ricci 1552 – 1610
  127. Feodor I of Russia 1557 – 1598
  128. Elizabeth Báthory 1560 – 1614
  129. Luis de Góngora 1561 – 1627
  130. Vincent de Paul 1581 – 1660
  131. Otto von Guericke 1602 – 1686
  132. Charles IX of Sweden 1550 – 1611
  133. Jean Bodin 1530 – 1596
  134. Joseph of Anchieta 1534 – 1597
  135. Tomás Luis de Victoria c. 1548 – 1611
  136. Philip Sidney 1554 – 1586
  137. John IV of Portugal 1604 – 1656
  138. Pierre Gassendi 1592 – 1655