Who Was Alive

Miguel de Cervantes

Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright

Born c. 1547 · died 22 April 1616

Who was alive at the same time as Miguel de Cervantes?

  1. Michelangelo
  2. Mimar Sinan
  3. Jacques Cartier
  4. François Rabelais
  5. Suleiman the Magnificent
  6. Charles V
  7. John Calvin
  8. Michel de Montaigne
  9. Elizabeth I of England
  10. Akbar
  11. Miguel de Cervantes
  12. Giordano Bruno
  13. Francis Bacon
  14. Lope de Vega
  15. Galileo Galilei
  16. William Shakespeare
  17. Johannes Kepler
  18. Peter Paul Rubens
  19. Thomas Hobbes
  20. René Descartes
  21. Diego Velázquez
  22. Oliver Cromwell
  23. Rembrandt
  24. John Milton
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When Miguel de Cervantes died, William Shakespeare was 51 or 52, Galileo Galilei was 52, René Descartes was 20, Rembrandt was 9 and Francis Bacon was 55.

Born during Miguel de Cervantes’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, René Descartes, Rembrandt, Francis Bacon, Johannes Kepler, Peter Paul Rubens and Diego Velázquez.

Not quite contemporaries: Molière was born 6 years after Miguel de Cervantes died, Nicolaus Copernicus died 2 years before Miguel de Cervantes was born, Blaise Pascal was born 7 years after Miguel de Cervantes died and Erasmus died 9 years before Miguel de Cervantes was born.

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All 62 contemporaries we track

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  4. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  5. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  6. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  7. Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603
  8. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  9. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  10. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  11. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  12. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  13. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  14. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  15. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  16. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  17. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  18. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  19. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  20. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  21. Charles V 1500 – 1558
  22. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  23. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  24. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  25. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  26. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  27. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  28. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  29. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  30. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  31. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  32. Luís de Camões 1524–1525 – 1580
  33. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  34. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  35. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  36. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  37. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  38. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  39. Ignatius of Loyola 1489–1493 – 1556
  40. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  41. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  42. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  43. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  44. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  45. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  46. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  47. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  48. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  49. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  50. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  51. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  52. Edward VI of England 1537 – 1553
  53. Louis XIII of France 1601 – 1643
  54. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  55. Paul III 1468 – 1549
  56. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  57. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  58. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  59. Pieter Brueghel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  60. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  61. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  62. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644