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Murad IV
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Murad IV

Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

Born 27 July 1612 · died 8 February 1640 (Julian calendar), aged 27

Who was alive at the same time as Murad IV?

  1. El Greco, 1541 – 1614
  2. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  3. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  4. Lope de Vega, 1562 – 1635
  5. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  6. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  7. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  8. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  9. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  10. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  11. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  12. Oliver Cromwell, 1599 – 1658
  13. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  14. John Milton, 1608 – 1674
  15. Murad IV, 1612 – 1640
  16. Jean de La Fontaine, 1621 – 1695
  17. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  18. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662
  19. Christiaan Huygens, 1629 – 1695
  20. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  21. Johannes Vermeer, 1632 – 1675
  22. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  23. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  24. Jean Racine, 1639 – 1699

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When Murad IV was born, William Shakespeare was 48, Galileo Galilei was 48, René Descartes was 16, Rembrandt was 6 and Francis Bacon was 51.

When Murad IV died, Galileo Galilei was 75, René Descartes was 43, Molière was 18, John Locke was 7 and Rembrandt was 33.

Born during Murad IV’s lifetime: Molière, John Locke, Blaise Pascal, Louis XIV, Baruch Spinoza, Jean de La Fontaine, Christiaan Huygens and Jean Racine.

Not quite contemporaries: Isaac Newton was born about 3 years after Murad IV died, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born about 6 years after Murad IV died, Matsuo Bashō was born about 4 years after Murad IV died and Elizabeth I died about 9 years before Murad IV was born.

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The 120 best-known contemporaries

120 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Murad IV. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1626.

  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. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  7. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  8. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  9. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  10. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  11. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  12. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  13. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  14. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  15. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  16. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  17. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  18. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  19. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  20. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  21. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  22. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  23. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  24. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  25. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  26. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  27. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  28. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  29. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  30. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  31. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  32. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  33. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  34. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  35. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  36. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  37. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  38. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  39. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  40. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  41. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  42. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  43. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  44. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  45. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  46. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  47. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  48. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  49. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  50. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  51. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  52. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  53. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  54. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  55. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  56. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  57. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  58. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  59. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  60. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  61. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  62. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  63. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  64. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  65. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  66. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  67. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  68. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  69. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  70. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  71. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  72. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  73. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  74. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  75. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  76. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  77. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  78. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  79. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  80. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  81. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  82. Osman II 1604 – 1622
  83. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  84. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  85. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  86. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  87. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  88. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  89. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  90. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  91. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  92. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  93. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  94. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  95. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  96. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  97. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  98. Mumtaz Mahal 1593 – 1631
  99. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  100. Cyrano de Bergerac c. 1619 – 1655
  101. Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 – 1687
  102. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  103. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  104. Ivan Mazepa 1639 – 1709
  105. Marie de' Medici 1575 – 1642
  106. Christian IV of Denmark 1577 – 1648
  107. Jean-Baptiste Colbert 1619 – 1683
  108. Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 – 1625
  109. George Herbert 1593 – 1633
  110. Pocahontas c. 1596 – 1617
  111. Francesco Borromini 1599 – 1667
  112. Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor 1608 – 1657
  113. Elizabeth Báthory 1560 – 1614
  114. Luis de Góngora 1561 – 1627
  115. Vincent de Paul 1581 – 1660
  116. Otto von Guericke 1602 – 1686
  117. Johannes Hevelius 1611 – 1687
  118. Evliya Çelebi 1611 – 1682
  119. John IV of Portugal 1604 – 1656
  120. Pierre Gassendi 1592 – 1655