Who Was Alive

Hugo Grotius

Dutch jurist and scholar

Born 10 April 1583 · died 28 August 1645, aged 62

Who was alive at the same time as Hugo Grotius?

  1. Michel de Montaigne
  2. Elizabeth I of England
  3. Akbar
  4. Miguel de Cervantes
  5. Giordano Bruno
  6. Francis Bacon
  7. Galileo Galilei
  8. William Shakespeare
  9. Johannes Kepler
  10. Peter Paul Rubens
  11. Hugo Grotius
  12. Thomas Hobbes
  13. René Descartes
  14. Diego Velázquez
  15. Rembrandt
  16. John Milton
  17. Jean de La Fontaine
  18. Molière
  19. Blaise Pascal
  20. John Locke
  21. Benedictus de Spinoza
  22. Louis XIV of France
  23. Isaac Newton
  24. Matsuo Bashō
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When Hugo Grotius was born, William Shakespeare was 18, Galileo Galilei was 19, Francis Bacon was 22, Elizabeth I of England was 49 and Johannes Kepler was 11.

When Hugo Grotius died, Isaac Newton was 2, René Descartes was 49, Molière was 23, John Locke was 12 and Rembrandt was 39.

Born during Hugo Grotius’s lifetime: Isaac Newton, René Descartes, Molière, John Locke, Rembrandt, Matsuo Bashō, Blaise Pascal and Louis XIV of France.

Not quite contemporaries: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born about a year after Hugo Grotius died, Daniel Defoe was born 14 years after Hugo Grotius died, Luís de Camões died 3 years before Hugo Grotius was born and Titian died 7 years before Hugo Grotius was born.

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All 64 contemporaries we track

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  3. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  4. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  5. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  6. Molière 1622 – 1673
  7. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  8. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  9. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  10. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  11. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  12. Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603
  13. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  14. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  15. Benedictus de Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  16. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  17. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  18. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  19. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  20. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  21. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  22. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  23. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  24. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  25. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  26. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  27. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  28. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  29. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  30. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  31. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  32. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  33. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  34. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  35. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  36. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  37. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  38. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  39. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  40. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  41. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  42. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  43. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  44. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  45. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  46. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  47. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  48. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  49. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  50. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  51. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  52. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  53. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  54. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  55. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  56. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  57. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  58. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  59. Louis XIII of France 1601 – 1643
  60. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  61. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  62. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  63. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  64. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644