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Luis de Góngora
Diego Velázquez, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Luis de Góngora

Spanish poet

Born 11 July 1561 · died 1627, aged 65
Also known as Luis de Góngora y Argote, Luis de Gongora y Argote, Luis de Argote y Góngora

Who was alive at the same time as Luis de Góngora?

  1. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  2. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  3. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  4. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564
  5. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  6. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  7. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  8. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  9. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  10. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  11. Luis de Góngora, 1561 – 1627
  12. Lope de Vega, 1562 – 1635
  13. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  14. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  15. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  16. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  17. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  18. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  19. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  20. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  21. John Milton, 1608 – 1674
  22. Jean de La Fontaine, 1621 – 1695
  23. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  24. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662

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When Luis de Góngora was born, Michelangelo was 86, Elizabeth I was 27, Francis Bacon was under a year old, Akbar was 18 and Suleiman the Magnificent was 66.

When Luis de Góngora died, Galileo Galilei was 63, René Descartes was 30 or 31, Molière was 5, Rembrandt was 20 and Blaise Pascal was 3.

Born during Luis de Góngora’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, René Descartes, Molière, Rembrandt, Blaise Pascal, Johannes Kepler and Peter Paul Rubens.

Not quite contemporaries: John Locke was born about 5 years after Luis de Góngora died, Louis XIV was born about 11 years after Luis de Góngora died, Baruch Spinoza was born about 5 years after Luis de Góngora died and Hernán Cortés died about 14 years before Luis de Góngora was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

174 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Luis de Góngora. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1594.

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  4. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  5. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  6. Molière 1622 – 1673
  7. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  8. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  9. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  10. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  11. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  12. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  13. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  14. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  15. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  16. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  17. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  18. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  19. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  20. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  21. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  22. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  23. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  24. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  25. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  26. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  27. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  28. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  29. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  30. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  31. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  32. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  33. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  34. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  35. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  36. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  37. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  38. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  39. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  40. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  41. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  42. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  43. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  44. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  45. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  46. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  47. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  48. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  49. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  50. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  51. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  52. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  53. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  54. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  55. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  56. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  57. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  58. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  59. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  60. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  61. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  62. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  63. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  64. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  65. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  66. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  67. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  68. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  69. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  70. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  71. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  72. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  73. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  74. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  75. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  76. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  77. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  78. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  79. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  80. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  81. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  82. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  83. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  84. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  85. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  86. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  87. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  88. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  89. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  90. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  91. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  92. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  93. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  94. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  95. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  96. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  97. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  98. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  99. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  100. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  101. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  102. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  103. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  104. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  105. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  106. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  107. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  108. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  109. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  110. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  111. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  112. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  113. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  114. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  115. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  116. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  117. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  118. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  119. Osman II 1604 – 1622
  120. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  121. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  122. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  123. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  124. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  125. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  126. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  127. Murad IV 1612 – 1640
  128. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  129. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  130. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  131. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  132. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  133. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  134. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  135. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  136. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  137. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  138. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  139. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  140. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  141. Mumtaz Mahal 1593 – 1631
  142. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  143. Cyrano de Bergerac c. 1619 – 1655
  144. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  145. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  146. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  147. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  148. Marie de' Medici 1575 – 1642
  149. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  150. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593