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Jean de La Bruyère
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Jean de La Bruyère

French writer and philosopher

Born 16 August 1645 · died 10 May 1696, aged 50
Also known as Jean de La Bruyere, Bruyère

Who was alive at the same time as Jean de La Bruyère?

  1. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  2. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  3. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  4. Oliver Cromwell, 1599 – 1658
  5. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  6. John Milton, 1608 – 1674
  7. Jean de La Fontaine, 1621 – 1695
  8. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  9. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662
  10. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  11. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  12. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  13. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  14. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  15. Jean de La Bruyère, 1645 – 1696
  16. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  17. Daniel Defoe, c. 1661 – 1731
  18. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  19. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  20. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  21. George Frideric Handel, 1685 – 1759
  22. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  23. Montesquieu, 1689 – 1755
  24. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778

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When Jean de La Bruyère was born, Isaac Newton was 2, René Descartes was 49, Molière was 23, John Locke was 12 and Rembrandt was 39.

When Jean de La Bruyère died, Isaac Newton was 53, Johann Sebastian Bach was 11, Voltaire was 1, John Locke was 63 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 49.

Born during Jean de La Bruyère’s lifetime: Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Peter the Great, Antonio Vivaldi, Jonathan Swift, Montesquieu and George Frideric Handel.

Not quite contemporaries: Galileo Galilei died about 3 years before Jean de La Bruyère was born, Benjamin Franklin was born about 10 years after Jean de La Bruyère died, Carl Linnaeus was born about 11 years after Jean de La Bruyère died and Leonhard Euler was born about 11 years after Jean de La Bruyère died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

151 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Jean de La Bruyère. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1671.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  3. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  4. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  5. Molière 1622 – 1673
  6. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  7. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  8. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  9. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  10. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  11. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  12. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  13. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  14. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  15. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  16. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  17. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  18. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  19. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  20. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  21. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  22. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  23. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  24. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  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. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  32. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  33. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  34. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  35. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  36. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  37. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  38. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  39. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  40. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  41. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  42. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  43. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  44. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  45. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  46. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  47. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  48. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  49. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  50. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  51. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  52. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  53. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  54. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  55. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  56. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  57. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  58. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  59. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  60. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  61. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  62. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  63. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  64. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  65. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  66. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  67. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  68. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  69. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  70. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  71. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  72. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  73. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  74. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  75. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  76. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  77. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  78. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  79. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  80. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  81. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  82. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  83. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  84. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  85. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  86. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  87. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  88. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  89. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  90. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  91. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  92. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  93. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  94. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  95. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  96. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  97. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  98. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  99. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  100. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  101. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  102. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  103. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  104. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  105. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  106. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  107. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  108. Guru Gobind Singh 1666 – 1708
  109. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  110. François Fénelon 1651 – 1715
  111. Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683 – 1764
  112. Antoine Watteau 1684 – 1721
  113. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  114. Cyrano de Bergerac c. 1619 – 1655
  115. Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 – 1687
  116. Prince Eugene of Savoy 1663 – 1736
  117. Domenico Scarlatti 1685 – 1757
  118. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  119. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  120. Ivan Mazepa 1639 – 1709
  121. Mustafa II 1664 – 1703
  122. Ahmed II 1643 – 1695
  123. Henry Purcell 1659 – 1695
  124. Blackbeard c. 1680 – 1718
  125. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 1696 – 1770
  126. Christian IV of Denmark 1577 – 1648
  127. Jean-Baptiste Colbert 1619 – 1683
  128. William Penn 1644 – 1718
  129. Arcangelo Corelli 1653 – 1713
  130. Francesco Borromini 1599 – 1667
  131. Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor 1608 – 1657
  132. Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle 1657 – 1757
  133. Ivan V of Russia 1666 – 1696
  134. Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor 1678 – 1711
  135. Vincent de Paul 1581 – 1660
  136. Otto von Guericke 1602 – 1686
  137. Johannes Hevelius 1611 – 1687
  138. Evliya Çelebi 1611 – 1682
  139. Kangxi Emperor 1654 – 1722
  140. Frederick I of Prussia 1657 – 1713
  141. Dieterich Buxtehude c. 1638 – 1707
  142. Antonio Stradivari c. 1644 – 1737
  143. Augustus II the Strong 1670 – 1733
  144. François Quesnay 1694 – 1774
  145. John IV of Portugal 1604 – 1656
  146. Feodor III of Russia 1661 – 1682
  147. Tomaso Albinoni 1671 – 1751
  148. Christian Wolff 1679 – 1754
  149. Pierre de Marivaux 1688 – 1763
  150. Frederick William I of Prussia 1688 – 1740