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Marie de' Medici
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Marie de' Medici

French salonnière

Born 26 April 1575 · died 3 July 1642, aged 67
Also known as Maria de' Medici, María de Médici, Marie de Médicis

Who was alive at the same time as Marie de' Medici?

  1. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  2. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  3. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  4. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  5. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  6. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  7. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  8. Lope de Vega, 1562 – 1635
  9. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  10. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  11. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  12. Marie de' Medici, 1575 – 1642
  13. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  14. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  15. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  16. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  17. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  18. John Milton, 1608 – 1674
  19. Jean de La Fontaine, 1621 – 1695
  20. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  21. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662
  22. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  23. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  24. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715

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When Marie de' Medici was born, William Shakespeare was 10 or 11, Galileo Galilei was 11, Elizabeth I was 41, Francis Bacon was 14 and Johannes Kepler was 3.

When Marie de' Medici died, René Descartes was 46, Molière was 20, John Locke was 9, Rembrandt was 35 and Blaise Pascal was 19.

Born during Marie de' Medici’s lifetime: René Descartes, Molière, John Locke, Rembrandt, Blaise Pascal, Louis XIV, Baruch Spinoza and Peter Paul Rubens.

Not quite contemporaries: Isaac Newton was born about a year after Marie de' Medici died, Michelangelo died about 11 years before Marie de' Medici was born, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born about 4 years after Marie de' Medici died and Matsuo Bashō was born about 2 years after Marie de' Medici died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

181 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Marie de' Medici. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1609.

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  4. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  5. Molière 1622 – 1673
  6. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  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. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  13. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  14. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  15. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  16. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  17. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  18. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  19. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  20. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  21. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  22. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  23. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  24. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  25. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  26. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  27. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  28. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  29. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  30. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  31. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  32. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  33. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  34. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  35. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  36. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  37. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  38. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  39. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  40. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  41. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  42. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  43. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  44. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  45. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  46. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  47. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  48. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  49. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  50. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  51. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  52. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  53. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  54. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  55. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  56. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  57. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  58. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  59. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  60. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  61. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  62. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  63. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  64. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  65. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  66. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  67. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  68. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  69. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  70. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  71. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  72. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  73. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  74. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  75. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  76. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  77. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  78. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  79. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  80. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  81. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  82. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  83. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  84. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  85. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  86. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  87. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  88. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  89. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  90. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  91. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  92. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  93. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  94. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  95. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  96. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  97. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  98. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  99. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  100. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  101. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  102. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  103. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  104. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  105. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  106. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  107. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  108. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  109. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  110. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  111. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  112. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  113. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  114. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  115. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  116. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  117. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  118. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  119. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  120. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  121. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  122. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  123. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  124. Osman II 1604 – 1622
  125. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  126. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  127. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  128. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  129. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  130. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  131. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  132. Murad IV 1612 – 1640
  133. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  134. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  135. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  136. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  137. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  138. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  139. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  140. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  141. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  142. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  143. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  144. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  145. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  146. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  147. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  148. Mumtaz Mahal 1593 – 1631
  149. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  150. Cyrano de Bergerac c. 1619 – 1655