Who Was Alive
Ivan Mazepa
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Ivan Mazepa

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Born 20 March 1639 · died 21 September 1709, aged 70
Also known as Ivan Mazeppa, Ivan Stepanovych Mazepa

Who was alive at the same time as Ivan Mazepa?

  1. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  2. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  3. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  4. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  5. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  6. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  7. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  8. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662
  9. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  10. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  11. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  12. Ivan Mazepa, 1639 – 1709
  13. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  14. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  15. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  16. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  17. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  18. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  19. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  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 Ivan Mazepa was born, Galileo Galilei was 75, René Descartes was 42, Molière was 17, John Locke was 6 and Rembrandt was 32.

When Ivan Mazepa died, Isaac Newton was 66, Johann Sebastian Bach was 24, Voltaire was 14, Benjamin Franklin was 3 and Carl Linnaeus was 2.

Born during Ivan Mazepa’s lifetime: Isaac Newton, Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin, Carl Linnaeus, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Matsuo Bashō and Leonhard Euler.

Not quite contemporaries: Immanuel Kant was born about 15 years after Ivan Mazepa died, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born about 3 years after Ivan Mazepa died, Adam Smith was born about 14 years after Ivan Mazepa died and Francis Bacon died about 13 years before Ivan Mazepa was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

187 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Ivan Mazepa. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1674.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  4. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  5. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  6. Molière 1622 – 1673
  7. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  8. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  9. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  10. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  11. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  12. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  13. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  14. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  15. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  16. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  17. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  18. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  19. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  20. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  21. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  22. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  23. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  24. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  25. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  26. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  27. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  28. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  29. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  30. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  31. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  32. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  33. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  34. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  35. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  36. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  37. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  38. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  39. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  40. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  41. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  42. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  43. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  44. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  45. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  46. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  47. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  48. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  49. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  50. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  51. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  52. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  53. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  54. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  55. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  56. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  57. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  58. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  59. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  60. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  61. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  62. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  63. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  64. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  65. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  66. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  67. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  68. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  69. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  70. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  71. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  72. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  73. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  74. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  75. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  76. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  77. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  78. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  79. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  80. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  81. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  82. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  83. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  84. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  85. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  86. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  87. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  88. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  89. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  90. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  91. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  92. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  93. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  94. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  95. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  96. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  97. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  98. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  99. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  100. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  101. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  102. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  103. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  104. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  105. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  106. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  107. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  108. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  109. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  110. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  111. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  112. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  113. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  114. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  115. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  116. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  117. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  118. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  119. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  120. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  121. Murad IV 1612 – 1640
  122. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  123. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  124. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  125. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  126. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  127. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  128. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  129. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  130. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  131. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  132. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  133. Guru Gobind Singh 1666 – 1708
  134. Canaletto 1697 – 1768
  135. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  136. François Fénelon 1651 – 1715
  137. Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683 – 1764
  138. Antoine Watteau 1684 – 1721
  139. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  140. Cyrano de Bergerac c. 1619 – 1655
  141. Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 – 1687
  142. Prince Eugene of Savoy 1663 – 1736
  143. Domenico Scarlatti 1685 – 1757
  144. Mahmud I 1696 – 1754
  145. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor 1708 – 1765
  146. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  147. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  148. Mustafa II 1664 – 1703
  149. Marie de' Medici 1575 – 1642
  150. Ahmed II 1643 – 1695