Who Was Alive

Jean Racine

French dramatist

Born 22 December 1639 · died 21 April 1699, aged 59

Who was alive at the same time as Jean Racine?

  1. Galileo Galilei
  2. Peter Paul Rubens
  3. Thomas Hobbes
  4. René Descartes
  5. Diego Velázquez
  6. Rembrandt
  7. John Milton
  8. Jean de La Fontaine
  9. Molière
  10. Blaise Pascal
  11. John Locke
  12. Benedictus de Spinoza
  13. Louis XIV of France
  14. Jean Racine
  15. Isaac Newton
  16. Matsuo Bashō
  17. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  18. Jonathan Swift
  19. Peter the Great
  20. Antonio Vivaldi
  21. George Frideric Handel
  22. Johann Sebastian Bach
  23. Montesquieu
  24. Voltaire
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Jean Racine was born, Galileo Galilei was 75, René Descartes was 43, Molière was 17, John Locke was 7 and Rembrandt was 33.

When Jean Racine died, Isaac Newton was 56, Johann Sebastian Bach was 14, Voltaire was 4, John Locke was 66 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 52.

Born during Jean Racine’s lifetime: Isaac Newton, Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Matsuo Bashō, Peter the Great, Antonio Vivaldi and Jonathan Swift.

Not quite contemporaries: Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born 13 years after Jean Racine died, Benjamin Franklin was born 7 years after Jean Racine died, Carl Linnaeus was born 8 years after Jean Racine died and Leonhard Euler was born 8 years after Jean Racine died.

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All 56 contemporaries we track

  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. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  8. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  9. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  10. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  11. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  12. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  13. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  14. Benedictus de Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  15. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  16. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  17. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  18. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  19. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  20. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  21. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  22. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  23. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  24. Daniel Defoe 1659–1662 – 1731
  25. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  26. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  27. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  28. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  29. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  30. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  31. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  32. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  33. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  34. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  35. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  36. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  37. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  38. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  39. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  40. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  41. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  42. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  43. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  44. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  45. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  46. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  47. Louis XIII of France 1601 – 1643
  48. Anne of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  49. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  50. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  51. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  52. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  53. Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  54. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  55. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  56. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745