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Miyamoto Musashi
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Miyamoto Musashi

Japanese philosopher and strategist

Born 1584 · died 5 June 1645, aged 60 or 61

Who was alive at the same time as Miyamoto Musashi?

  1. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  2. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  3. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  4. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  5. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  6. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  7. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  8. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  9. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  10. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  11. Miyamoto Musashi, 1584 – 1645
  12. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  13. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  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 Miyamoto Musashi was born, William Shakespeare was 19 or 20, Galileo Galilei was 19 or 20, Elizabeth I was 50 or 51, Francis Bacon was 22 or 23 and Johannes Kepler was 11 or 12.

When Miyamoto Musashi died, Isaac Newton was 2, René Descartes was 49, Molière was 23, John Locke was 12 and Rembrandt was 38.

Born during Miyamoto Musashi’s lifetime: Isaac Newton, René Descartes, Molière, John Locke, Rembrandt, Matsuo Bashō, Blaise Pascal and Louis XIV.

Not quite contemporaries: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born about a year after Miyamoto Musashi died, Daniel Defoe was born about 14 years after Miyamoto Musashi died, Luís de Camões died about 4 years before Miyamoto Musashi was born and Titian died about 8 years before Miyamoto Musashi was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

177 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Miyamoto Musashi. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1615.

  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. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  24. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  25. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  26. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  27. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  28. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  29. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  30. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  31. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  32. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  33. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  34. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  35. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  36. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  37. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  38. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  39. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  40. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  41. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  42. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  43. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  44. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  45. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  46. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  47. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  48. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  49. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  50. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  51. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  52. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  53. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  54. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  55. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  56. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  57. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  58. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  59. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  60. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  61. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  62. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  63. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  64. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  65. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  66. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  67. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  68. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  69. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  70. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  71. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  72. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  73. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  74. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  75. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  76. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  77. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  78. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  79. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  80. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  81. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  82. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  83. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  84. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  85. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  86. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  87. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  88. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  89. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  90. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  91. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  92. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  93. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  94. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  95. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  96. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  97. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  98. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  99. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  100. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  101. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  102. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  103. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  104. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  105. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  106. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  107. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  108. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  109. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  110. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  111. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  112. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  113. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  114. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  115. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  116. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  117. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  118. Osman II 1604 – 1622
  119. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  120. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  121. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  122. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  123. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  124. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  125. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  126. Murad IV 1612 – 1640
  127. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  128. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  129. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  130. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  131. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  132. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  133. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  134. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  135. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  136. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  137. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  138. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  139. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  140. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  141. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  142. Mumtaz Mahal 1593 – 1631
  143. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  144. Cyrano de Bergerac c. 1619 – 1655
  145. Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 – 1687
  146. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  147. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  148. Ivan Mazepa 1639 – 1709
  149. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  150. Marie de' Medici 1575 – 1642