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Jean-Baptiste Colbert
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Jean-Baptiste Colbert

French economist

Born 29 August 1619 · died 6 September 1683, aged 64

Who was alive at the same time as Jean-Baptiste Colbert?

  1. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  2. Lope de Vega, 1562 – 1635
  3. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  4. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  5. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  6. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  7. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  8. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  9. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  10. John Milton, 1608 – 1674
  11. Jean-Baptiste Colbert, 1619 – 1683
  12. Jean de La Fontaine, 1621 – 1695
  13. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  14. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662
  15. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  16. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  17. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  18. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  19. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  20. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  21. Daniel Defoe, c. 1661 – 1731
  22. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  23. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  24. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741

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When Jean-Baptiste Colbert was born, Galileo Galilei was 55, René Descartes was 23, Rembrandt was 13, Francis Bacon was 58 and Johannes Kepler was 47.

When Jean-Baptiste Colbert died, Isaac Newton was 40, John Locke was 50, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 37, Matsuo Bashō was 38 or 39 and Louis XIV was 45.

Born during Jean-Baptiste Colbert’s lifetime: Isaac Newton, Molière, John Locke, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Matsuo Bashō, Blaise Pascal, Louis XIV and Peter the Great.

Not quite contemporaries: William Shakespeare died about 3 years before Jean-Baptiste Colbert was born, Johann Sebastian Bach was born about 2 years after Jean-Baptiste Colbert died, Voltaire was born about 11 years after Jean-Baptiste Colbert died and Miguel de Cervantes died about 3 years before Jean-Baptiste Colbert was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

166 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Jean-Baptiste Colbert. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1651.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  4. Molière 1622 – 1673
  5. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  6. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  7. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  8. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  9. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  10. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  11. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  12. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  13. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  14. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  15. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  16. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  17. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  18. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  19. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  20. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  21. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  22. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  23. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  24. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  25. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  26. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  27. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  28. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  29. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  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. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  37. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  38. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  39. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  40. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  41. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  42. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  43. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  44. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  45. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  46. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  47. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  48. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  49. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  50. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  51. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  52. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  53. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  54. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  55. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  56. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  57. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  58. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  59. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  60. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  61. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  62. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  63. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  64. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  65. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  66. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  67. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  68. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  69. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  70. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  71. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  72. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  73. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  74. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  75. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  76. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  77. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  78. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  79. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  80. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  81. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  82. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  83. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  84. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  85. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  86. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  87. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  88. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  89. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  90. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  91. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  92. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  93. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  94. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  95. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  96. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  97. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  98. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  99. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  100. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  101. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  102. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  103. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  104. Osman II 1604 – 1622
  105. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  106. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  107. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  108. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  109. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  110. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  111. Murad IV 1612 – 1640
  112. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  113. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  114. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  115. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  116. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  117. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  118. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  119. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  120. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  121. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  122. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  123. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  124. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  125. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  126. Guru Gobind Singh 1666 – 1708
  127. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  128. François Fénelon 1651 – 1715
  129. Mumtaz Mahal 1593 – 1631
  130. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  131. Cyrano de Bergerac c. 1619 – 1655
  132. Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 – 1687
  133. Prince Eugene of Savoy 1663 – 1736
  134. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  135. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  136. Ivan Mazepa 1639 – 1709
  137. Mustafa II 1664 – 1703
  138. Marie de' Medici 1575 – 1642
  139. Ahmed II 1643 – 1695
  140. Henry Purcell 1659 – 1695
  141. Blackbeard c. 1680 – 1718
  142. Christian IV of Denmark 1577 – 1648
  143. William Penn 1644 – 1718
  144. Arcangelo Corelli 1653 – 1713
  145. Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 – 1625
  146. George Herbert 1593 – 1633
  147. Francesco Borromini 1599 – 1667
  148. Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor 1608 – 1657
  149. Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle 1657 – 1757
  150. Ivan V of Russia 1666 – 1696