Who Was Alive

Johannes Vermeer

Dutch painter

Born October 1632 · died 1675, aged 42 or 43

Who was alive at the same time as Johannes Vermeer?

  1. Lope de Vega
  2. Galileo Galilei
  3. Peter Paul Rubens
  4. Thomas Hobbes
  5. René Descartes
  6. Diego Velázquez
  7. Oliver Cromwell
  8. Rembrandt
  9. John Milton
  10. Jean de La Fontaine
  11. Molière
  12. Blaise Pascal
  13. Christiaan Huygens
  14. John Locke
  15. Johannes Vermeer
  16. Benedictus de Spinoza
  17. Louis XIV of France
  18. Jean Racine
  19. Isaac Newton
  20. Matsuo Bashō
  21. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  22. Daniel Defoe
  23. Jonathan Swift
  24. Peter the Great
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 Johannes Vermeer was born, Galileo Galilei was 68, René Descartes was 36, Molière was 10, John Locke was under a year old and Rembrandt was 26.

When Johannes Vermeer died, Isaac Newton was 31 or 32, John Locke was 42 or 43, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 28 or 29, Matsuo Bashō was 30 or 31 and Louis XIV of France was 36 or 37.

Born during Johannes Vermeer’s lifetime: Isaac Newton, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Matsuo Bashō, Louis XIV of France, Peter the Great, Benedictus de Spinoza, Jonathan Swift and Daniel Defoe.

Not quite contemporaries: Johann Sebastian Bach was born 10 years after Johannes Vermeer died, Francis Bacon died 6 years before Johannes Vermeer was born, Johannes Kepler died 2 years before Johannes Vermeer was born and Antonio Vivaldi was born 3 years after Johannes Vermeer died.

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All 48 contemporaries we track

  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. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  11. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  12. Benedictus de Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  13. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  14. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  15. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  16. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  17. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  18. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  19. Daniel Defoe 1659–1662 – 1731
  20. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  21. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  22. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  23. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  24. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  25. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  26. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  27. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  28. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  29. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  30. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  31. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  32. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  33. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  34. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  35. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  36. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  37. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  38. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  39. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  40. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  41. Louis XIII of France 1601 – 1643
  42. Anne of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  43. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  44. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  45. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  46. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  47. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  48. William III of England 1650 – 1702