Who Was Alive

Molière

French playwright and actor

Born 15 January 1622 · died 17 February 1673, aged 51

Who was alive at the same time as Molière?

  1. Francis Bacon
  2. Lope de Vega
  3. Galileo Galilei
  4. Johannes Kepler
  5. Peter Paul Rubens
  6. Thomas Hobbes
  7. René Descartes
  8. Diego Velázquez
  9. Oliver Cromwell
  10. Rembrandt
  11. John Milton
  12. Jean de La Fontaine
  13. Molière
  14. Blaise Pascal
  15. Christiaan Huygens
  16. John Locke
  17. Benedictus de Spinoza
  18. Louis XIV of France
  19. Isaac Newton
  20. Matsuo Bashō
  21. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  22. Daniel Defoe
  23. Jonathan Swift
  24. Peter the Great
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Molière was born, Galileo Galilei was 57, René Descartes was 25, Rembrandt was 15, Francis Bacon was 60 and Johannes Kepler was 50.

When Molière died, Isaac Newton was 30, John Locke was 40, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 26, Matsuo Bashō was 28 or 29 and Louis XIV of France was 34.

Born during Molière’s lifetime: Isaac Newton, John Locke, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Matsuo Bashō, Blaise Pascal, Louis XIV of France, Peter the Great and Benedictus de Spinoza.

Not quite contemporaries: William Shakespeare died 6 years before Molière was born, Johann Sebastian Bach was born 12 years after Molière died, Miguel de Cervantes died 6 years before Molière was born and Antonio Vivaldi was born 5 years after Molière died.

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All 52 contemporaries we track

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  4. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  5. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  6. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  7. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  8. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  9. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  10. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  11. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  12. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  13. Benedictus de Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  14. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  15. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  16. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  17. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  18. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  19. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  20. Daniel Defoe 1659–1662 – 1731
  21. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  22. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  23. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  24. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  25. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  26. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  27. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  28. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  29. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  30. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  31. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  32. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  33. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  34. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  35. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  36. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  37. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  38. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  39. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  40. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  41. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  42. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  43. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  44. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  45. Louis XIII of France 1601 – 1643
  46. Anne of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  47. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  48. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  49. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  50. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  51. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  52. William III of England 1650 – 1702