Who Was Alive

John Amos Comenius

Czech teacher, educator, philosopher and writer

Born 28 March 1592 · died 15 November 1670, aged 78

Who was alive at the same time as John Amos Comenius?

  1. Elizabeth I of England
  2. Akbar
  3. Miguel de Cervantes
  4. Giordano Bruno
  5. Francis Bacon
  6. Galileo Galilei
  7. William Shakespeare
  8. Johannes Kepler
  9. Peter Paul Rubens
  10. Thomas Hobbes
  11. John Amos Comenius
  12. René Descartes
  13. Diego Velázquez
  14. Rembrandt
  15. John Milton
  16. Molière
  17. Blaise Pascal
  18. John Locke
  19. Benedictus de Spinoza
  20. Louis XIV of France
  21. Isaac Newton
  22. Matsuo Bashō
  23. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  24. Jonathan Swift
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When John Amos Comenius was born, William Shakespeare was 27, Galileo Galilei was 28, Francis Bacon was 31, Elizabeth I of England was 58 and Johannes Kepler was 20.

When John Amos Comenius died, Isaac Newton was 27, Molière was 48, John Locke was 38, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 24 and Matsuo Bashō was 25 or 26.

Born during John Amos Comenius’s lifetime: Isaac Newton, René Descartes, Molière, John Locke, Rembrandt, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Matsuo Bashō and Blaise Pascal.

Not quite contemporaries: Johann Sebastian Bach was born 15 years after John Amos Comenius died, Peter the Great was born 2 years after John Amos Comenius died, Antonio Vivaldi was born 8 years after John Amos Comenius died and George Frideric Handel was born 15 years after John Amos Comenius died.

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All 66 contemporaries we track

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  3. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  4. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  5. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  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. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  13. Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603
  14. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  15. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  16. Benedictus de Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  17. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  18. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  19. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  20. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  21. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  22. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  23. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  24. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  25. Daniel Defoe 1659–1662 – 1731
  26. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  27. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  28. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  29. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  30. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  31. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  32. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  33. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  34. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  35. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  36. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  37. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  38. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  39. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  40. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  41. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  42. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  43. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  44. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  45. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  46. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  47. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  48. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  49. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  50. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  51. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  52. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  53. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  54. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  55. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  56. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  57. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  58. Louis XIII of France 1601 – 1643
  59. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  60. Anne of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
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  63. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
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