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Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor
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Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor

Holy Roman Emperor

Born 9 June 1640 · died 5 May 1705, aged 64

Who was alive at the same time as Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor?

  1. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  2. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  3. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  4. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  5. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  6. John Milton, 1608 – 1674
  7. Jean de La Fontaine, 1621 – 1695
  8. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  9. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662
  10. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  11. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  12. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  13. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1640 – 1705
  14. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  15. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  16. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  17. Daniel Defoe, c. 1661 – 1731
  18. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  19. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  20. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  21. George Frideric Handel, 1685 – 1759
  22. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  23. Montesquieu, 1689 – 1755
  24. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778

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When Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor was born, Galileo Galilei was 76, René Descartes was 44, Molière was 18, John Locke was 7 and Rembrandt was 33.

When Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor died, Isaac Newton was 62, Johann Sebastian Bach was 20, Voltaire was 10, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 58 and Louis XIV was 66.

Born during Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor’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 about 7 years after Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor died, Benjamin Franklin was born about a year after Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor died, Carl Linnaeus was born about 2 years after Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor died and Leonhard Euler was born about 2 years after Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

172 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1673.

  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 1638 – 1715
  13. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  14. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  15. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  16. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  17. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  18. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  19. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  20. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  21. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  22. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  23. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  24. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  25. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  26. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  27. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  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. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  37. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  38. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  39. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  40. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  41. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  42. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  43. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  44. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  45. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  46. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  47. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  48. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  49. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  50. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  51. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  52. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  53. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  54. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  55. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  56. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  57. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  58. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  59. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  60. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  61. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  62. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  63. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  64. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  65. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  66. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  67. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  68. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  69. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  70. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  71. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  72. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  73. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  74. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  75. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  76. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  77. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  78. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  79. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  80. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  81. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  82. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  83. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  84. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  85. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  86. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  87. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  88. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  89. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  90. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  91. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  92. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  93. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  94. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  95. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  96. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  97. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  98. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  99. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  100. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  101. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  102. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  103. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  104. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  105. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  106. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  107. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  108. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  109. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  110. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  111. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  112. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  113. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  114. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  115. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  116. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  117. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  118. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  119. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  120. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  121. Guru Gobind Singh 1666 – 1708
  122. Canaletto 1697 – 1768
  123. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  124. François Fénelon 1651 – 1715
  125. Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683 – 1764
  126. Antoine Watteau 1684 – 1721
  127. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  128. Cyrano de Bergerac c. 1619 – 1655
  129. Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 – 1687
  130. Prince Eugene of Savoy 1663 – 1736
  131. Domenico Scarlatti 1685 – 1757
  132. Mahmud I 1696 – 1754
  133. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  134. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  135. Ivan Mazepa 1639 – 1709
  136. Mustafa II 1664 – 1703
  137. Marie de' Medici 1575 – 1642
  138. Ahmed II 1643 – 1695
  139. Henry Purcell 1659 – 1695
  140. Blackbeard c. 1680 – 1718
  141. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 1696 – 1770
  142. Christian IV of Denmark 1577 – 1648
  143. Jean-Baptiste Colbert 1619 – 1683
  144. William Penn 1644 – 1718
  145. Arcangelo Corelli 1653 – 1713
  146. Osman III 1699 – 1757
  147. Francesco Borromini 1599 – 1667
  148. Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor 1608 – 1657
  149. Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle 1657 – 1757
  150. Ivan V of Russia 1666 – 1696