Who Was Alive

John Milton

English poet and civil servant

Born 9 December 1608 · died 8 November 1674, aged 65

Who was alive at the same time as John Milton?

  1. Miguel de Cervantes
  2. Francis Bacon
  3. Lope de Vega
  4. Galileo Galilei
  5. William Shakespeare
  6. Johannes Kepler
  7. Peter Paul Rubens
  8. Thomas Hobbes
  9. René Descartes
  10. Diego Velázquez
  11. Rembrandt
  12. John Milton
  13. Jean de La Fontaine
  14. Molière
  15. Blaise Pascal
  16. John Locke
  17. Benedictus de Spinoza
  18. Louis XIV of France
  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 John Milton was born, William Shakespeare was 44, Galileo Galilei was 44, René Descartes was 12, Rembrandt was 2 and Francis Bacon was 47.

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

Born during John Milton’s lifetime: Isaac Newton, Molière, John Locke, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Matsuo Bashō, Blaise Pascal, Louis XIV of France and Peter the Great.

Not quite contemporaries: Johann Sebastian Bach was born 11 years after John Milton died, Elizabeth I of England died 5 years before John Milton was born, Akbar died 3 years before John Milton was born and Antonio Vivaldi was born 4 years after John Milton died.

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All 57 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. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  14. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  15. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  16. Benedictus de Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  17. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  18. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  19. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  20. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  21. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  22. Daniel Defoe 1659–1662 – 1731
  23. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  24. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  25. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  26. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  27. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  28. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  29. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  30. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  31. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  32. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  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. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  39. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  40. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  41. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  42. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  43. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  44. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  45. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  46. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  47. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  48. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  49. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  50. Louis XIII of France 1601 – 1643
  51. Anne of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  52. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  53. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  54. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  55. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  56. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  57. William III of England 1650 – 1702