Who Was Alive
Mumtaz Mahal
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Mumtaz Mahal

Poet

Born 27 April 1593 · died 17 June 1631, aged 38
Also known as Arjumand Banu, Begum Mumtaz-Mahal Mogulreich, Mumtāz Maḥal

Who was alive at the same time as Mumtaz Mahal?

  1. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, 1525 – 1594
  2. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  3. Francis Drake, c. 1540 – 1596
  4. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  5. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  6. Tycho Brahe, 1546 – 1601
  7. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  8. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  9. Lope de Vega, 1562 – 1635
  10. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  11. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  12. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  13. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  14. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  15. Mumtaz Mahal, 1593 – 1631
  16. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  17. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  18. Oliver Cromwell, 1599 – 1658
  19. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  20. John Milton, 1608 – 1674
  21. Jean de La Fontaine, 1621 – 1695
  22. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  23. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662
  24. Christiaan Huygens, 1629 – 1695

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When Mumtaz Mahal was born, William Shakespeare was 28 or 29, Galileo Galilei was 29, Elizabeth I was 59, Francis Bacon was 32 and Johannes Kepler was 21.

When Mumtaz Mahal died, Galileo Galilei was 67, René Descartes was 35, Molière was 9, Rembrandt was 24 and Blaise Pascal was 7.

Born during Mumtaz Mahal’s lifetime: René Descartes, Molière, Rembrandt, Blaise Pascal, Diego Velázquez, John Milton, Jean de La Fontaine and Oliver Cromwell.

Not quite contemporaries: Isaac Newton was born about 12 years after Mumtaz Mahal died, John Locke was born about a year after Mumtaz Mahal died, Matsuo Bashō was born about 13 years after Mumtaz Mahal died and Louis XIV was born about 7 years after Mumtaz Mahal died.

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The 140 best-known contemporaries

140 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Mumtaz Mahal. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1612.

  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. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  7. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  8. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  9. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  10. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  11. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  12. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  13. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  14. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  15. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  16. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  17. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  18. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  19. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  20. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  21. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  22. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  23. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  24. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  25. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  26. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  27. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  28. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  29. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  30. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  31. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  32. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  33. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  34. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  35. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  36. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  37. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  38. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  39. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  40. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  41. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  42. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  43. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  44. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  45. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  46. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  47. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  48. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  49. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  50. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  51. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  52. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  53. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  54. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  55. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  56. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  57. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  58. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  59. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  60. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  61. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  62. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  63. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  64. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  65. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  66. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  67. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  68. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  69. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  70. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  71. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  72. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  73. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  74. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  75. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  76. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  77. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  78. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  79. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  80. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  81. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  82. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  83. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  84. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  85. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  86. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  87. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  88. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  89. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  90. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  91. Osman II 1604 – 1622
  92. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  93. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  94. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  95. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  96. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  97. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  98. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  99. Murad IV 1612 – 1640
  100. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  101. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  102. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  103. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  104. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  105. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  106. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  107. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  108. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  109. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  110. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  111. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  112. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  113. Cyrano de Bergerac c. 1619 – 1655
  114. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  115. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  116. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  117. Marie de' Medici 1575 – 1642
  118. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593
  119. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598
  120. Christian IV of Denmark 1577 – 1648
  121. Jean-Baptiste Colbert 1619 – 1683
  122. Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 – 1625
  123. George Herbert 1593 – 1633
  124. Pocahontas c. 1596 – 1617
  125. Francesco Borromini 1599 – 1667
  126. Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor 1608 – 1657
  127. Matteo Ricci 1552 – 1610
  128. Feodor I of Russia 1557 – 1598
  129. Elizabeth Báthory 1560 – 1614
  130. Luis de Góngora 1561 – 1627
  131. Vincent de Paul 1581 – 1660
  132. Otto von Guericke 1602 – 1686
  133. Johannes Hevelius 1611 – 1687
  134. Evliya Çelebi 1611 – 1682
  135. Charles IX of Sweden 1550 – 1611
  136. Jean Bodin 1530 – 1596
  137. Joseph of Anchieta 1534 – 1597
  138. Tomás Luis de Victoria c. 1548 – 1611
  139. John IV of Portugal 1604 – 1656
  140. Pierre Gassendi 1592 – 1655