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Michael of Russia
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Michael of Russia

Monarch

Born 12 July 1596 (Julian calendar) · died 13 July 1645 (Julian calendar), aged 49
Also known as Michael I of Russia

Who was alive at the same time as Michael of Russia?

  1. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  2. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  3. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  4. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  5. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  6. Lope de Vega, 1562 – 1635
  7. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  8. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  9. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  10. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  11. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  12. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  13. Michael of Russia, 1596 – 1645
  14. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  15. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  16. John Milton, 1608 – 1674
  17. Jean de La Fontaine, 1621 – 1695
  18. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  19. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662
  20. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  21. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  22. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  23. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  24. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694

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When Michael of Russia was born, William Shakespeare was 32, Galileo Galilei was 32, René Descartes was under a year old, Elizabeth I was 62 and Francis Bacon was 35.

When Michael of Russia died, Isaac Newton was 2, René Descartes was 49, Molière was 23, John Locke was 12 and Rembrandt was 39.

Born during Michael of Russia’s lifetime: Isaac Newton, Molière, John Locke, Rembrandt, Matsuo Bashō, Blaise Pascal, Louis XIV and Baruch Spinoza.

Not quite contemporaries: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born about a year after Michael of Russia died, Daniel Defoe was born about 14 years after Michael of Russia died, Michel de Montaigne died about 4 years before Michael of Russia was born and Mimar Sinan died about 8 years before Michael of Russia was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

154 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Michael of Russia. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1621.

  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. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  10. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  11. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  12. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  13. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  14. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  15. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  16. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  17. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  18. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  19. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  20. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  21. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  22. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  23. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  24. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  25. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  26. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  27. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  28. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  29. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  30. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  31. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  32. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  33. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  34. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  35. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  36. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  37. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  38. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  39. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  40. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  41. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  42. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  43. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  44. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  45. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  46. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  47. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  48. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  49. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  50. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  51. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  52. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  53. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  54. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  55. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  56. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  57. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  58. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  59. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  60. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  61. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  62. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  63. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  64. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  65. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  66. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  67. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  68. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  69. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  70. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  71. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  72. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  73. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  74. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  75. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  76. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  77. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  78. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  79. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  80. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  81. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  82. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  83. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  84. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  85. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  86. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  87. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  88. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  89. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  90. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  91. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  92. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  93. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  94. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  95. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  96. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  97. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  98. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  99. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  100. Osman II 1604 – 1622
  101. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  102. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  103. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  104. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  105. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  106. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  107. Murad IV 1612 – 1640
  108. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  109. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  110. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  111. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  112. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  113. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  114. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  115. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  116. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  117. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  118. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  119. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  120. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  121. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  122. Mumtaz Mahal 1593 – 1631
  123. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  124. Cyrano de Bergerac c. 1619 – 1655
  125. Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 – 1687
  126. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  127. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  128. Ivan Mazepa 1639 – 1709
  129. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  130. Marie de' Medici 1575 – 1642
  131. Ahmed II 1643 – 1695
  132. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598
  133. Christian IV of Denmark 1577 – 1648
  134. Jean-Baptiste Colbert 1619 – 1683
  135. William Penn 1644 – 1718
  136. Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 – 1625
  137. George Herbert 1593 – 1633
  138. Pocahontas c. 1596 – 1617
  139. Francesco Borromini 1599 – 1667
  140. Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor 1608 – 1657
  141. Matteo Ricci 1552 – 1610
  142. Feodor I of Russia 1557 – 1598
  143. Elizabeth Báthory 1560 – 1614
  144. Luis de Góngora 1561 – 1627
  145. Vincent de Paul 1581 – 1660
  146. Otto von Guericke 1602 – 1686
  147. Johannes Hevelius 1611 – 1687
  148. Evliya Çelebi 1611 – 1682
  149. Dieterich Buxtehude c. 1638 – 1707
  150. Charles IX of Sweden 1550 – 1611