Who Was Alive
Juana Inés de la Cruz
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Juana Inés de la Cruz

Mexican writer and philosopher

Born 12 November 1651 · died 17 April 1695, aged 43
Also known as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Juana Ines de la Cruz, Sor Juana Ines

Who was alive at the same time as Juana Inés de la Cruz?

  1. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  2. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  3. Oliver Cromwell, 1599 – 1658
  4. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  5. John Milton, 1608 – 1674
  6. Jean de La Fontaine, 1621 – 1695
  7. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  8. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662
  9. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  10. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  11. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  12. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  13. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  14. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  15. Juana Inés de la Cruz, 1651 – 1695
  16. Daniel Defoe, c. 1661 – 1731
  17. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  18. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  19. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  20. George Frideric Handel, 1685 – 1759
  21. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  22. Alexander Pope, 1688 – 1744
  23. Montesquieu, 1689 – 1755
  24. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778

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When Juana Inés de la Cruz was born, Isaac Newton was 8, Molière was 29, John Locke was 19, Rembrandt was 45 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 5.

When Juana Inés de la Cruz died, Isaac Newton was 52, Johann Sebastian Bach was 10, Voltaire was under a year old, John Locke was 62 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 48.

Born during Juana Inés de la Cruz’s lifetime: Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Peter the Great, Antonio Vivaldi, Jonathan Swift, Montesquieu, George Frideric Handel and Daniel Defoe.

Not quite contemporaries: Galileo Galilei died about 9 years before Juana Inés de la Cruz was born, René Descartes died about a year before Juana Inés de la Cruz was born, Benjamin Franklin was born about 11 years after Juana Inés de la Cruz died and Carl Linnaeus was born about 12 years after Juana Inés de la Cruz died.

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The 143 best-known contemporaries

143 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Juana Inés de la Cruz. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1673.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  3. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  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 1638 – 1715
  11. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  12. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  13. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  14. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  15. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  16. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  17. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  18. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  19. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  20. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  21. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  22. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  23. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  24. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  25. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  26. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  27. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  28. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  29. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  30. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  31. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  32. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  33. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  34. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  35. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  36. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  37. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  38. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  39. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  40. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  41. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  42. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  43. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  44. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  45. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  46. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  47. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  48. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  49. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  50. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  51. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  52. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  53. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  54. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  55. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  56. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  57. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  58. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  59. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  60. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  61. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  62. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  63. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  64. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  65. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  66. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  67. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  68. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  69. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  70. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  71. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  72. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  73. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  74. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  75. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  76. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  77. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  78. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  79. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  80. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  81. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  82. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  83. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  84. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  85. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  86. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  87. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  88. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  89. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  90. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  91. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  92. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  93. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  94. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  95. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  96. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  97. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  98. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  99. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  100. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  101. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  102. Guru Gobind Singh 1666 – 1708
  103. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  104. François Fénelon 1651 – 1715
  105. Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683 – 1764
  106. Antoine Watteau 1684 – 1721
  107. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  108. Cyrano de Bergerac c. 1619 – 1655
  109. Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 – 1687
  110. Prince Eugene of Savoy 1663 – 1736
  111. Domenico Scarlatti 1685 – 1757
  112. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  113. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  114. Ivan Mazepa 1639 – 1709
  115. Mustafa II 1664 – 1703
  116. Ahmed II 1643 – 1695
  117. Henry Purcell 1659 – 1695
  118. Blackbeard c. 1680 – 1718
  119. Jean-Baptiste Colbert 1619 – 1683
  120. William Penn 1644 – 1718
  121. Arcangelo Corelli 1653 – 1713
  122. Francesco Borromini 1599 – 1667
  123. Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor 1608 – 1657
  124. Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle 1657 – 1757
  125. Ivan V of Russia 1666 – 1696
  126. Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor 1678 – 1711
  127. Vincent de Paul 1581 – 1660
  128. Otto von Guericke 1602 – 1686
  129. Johannes Hevelius 1611 – 1687
  130. Evliya Çelebi 1611 – 1682
  131. Kangxi Emperor 1654 – 1722
  132. Frederick I of Prussia 1657 – 1713
  133. Dieterich Buxtehude c. 1638 – 1707
  134. Antonio Stradivari c. 1644 – 1737
  135. Augustus II the Strong 1670 – 1733
  136. François Quesnay 1694 – 1774
  137. John IV of Portugal 1604 – 1656
  138. Feodor III of Russia 1661 – 1682
  139. Tomaso Albinoni 1671 – 1751
  140. Christian Wolff 1679 – 1754
  141. Pierre de Marivaux 1688 – 1763
  142. Frederick William I of Prussia 1688 – 1740
  143. Pierre Gassendi 1592 – 1655