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Iskandar Muda
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Iskandar Muda

Sultan of Aceh

Born 1583 · died 27 December 1636, aged 52 or 53

Who was alive at the same time as Iskandar Muda?

  1. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  2. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  3. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  4. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  5. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  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. Iskandar Muda, 1583 – 1636
  14. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  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. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  24. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677

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When Iskandar Muda was born, William Shakespeare was 18 or 19, Galileo Galilei was 18 or 19, Elizabeth I was 49 or 50, Francis Bacon was 21 or 22 and Johannes Kepler was 10 or 11.

When Iskandar Muda died, Galileo Galilei was 72, René Descartes was 40, Molière was 14, John Locke was 4 and Rembrandt was 30.

Born during Iskandar Muda’s lifetime: René Descartes, Molière, John Locke, Rembrandt, Blaise Pascal, Baruch Spinoza, Diego Velázquez and Thomas Hobbes.

Not quite contemporaries: Isaac Newton was born about 7 years after Iskandar Muda died, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born about 10 years after Iskandar Muda died, Matsuo Bashō was born about 8 years after Iskandar Muda died and Louis XIV was born about 2 years after Iskandar Muda died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

166 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Iskandar Muda. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1610.

  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. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  13. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  14. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  15. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  16. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  17. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  18. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  19. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  20. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  21. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  22. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  23. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  24. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  25. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  26. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  27. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  28. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  29. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  30. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  31. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  32. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  33. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  34. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  35. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  36. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  37. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  38. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  39. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  40. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  41. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  42. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  43. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  44. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  45. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  46. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  47. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  48. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  49. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  50. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  51. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  52. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  53. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  54. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  55. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  56. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  57. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  58. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  59. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  60. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  61. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  62. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  63. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  64. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  65. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  66. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  67. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  68. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  69. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  70. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  71. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  72. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  73. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  74. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  75. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  76. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  77. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  78. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  79. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  80. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  81. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  82. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  83. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  84. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  85. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  86. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  87. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  88. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  89. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  90. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  91. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  92. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  93. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  94. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  95. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  96. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  97. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  98. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  99. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  100. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  101. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  102. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  103. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  104. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  105. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  106. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  107. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  108. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  109. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  110. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  111. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  112. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  113. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  114. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  115. Osman II 1604 – 1622
  116. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  117. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  118. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  119. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  120. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  121. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  122. Murad IV 1612 – 1640
  123. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  124. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  125. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  126. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  127. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  128. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  129. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  130. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  131. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  132. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  133. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  134. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  135. Mumtaz Mahal 1593 – 1631
  136. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  137. Cyrano de Bergerac c. 1619 – 1655
  138. Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 – 1687
  139. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  140. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  141. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  142. Marie de' Medici 1575 – 1642
  143. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593
  144. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598
  145. Christian IV of Denmark 1577 – 1648
  146. Jean-Baptiste Colbert 1619 – 1683
  147. Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 – 1625
  148. George Herbert 1593 – 1633
  149. Pocahontas c. 1596 – 1617
  150. Francesco Borromini 1599 – 1667