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Mustafa I
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Mustafa I

Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

Born 24 June 1591 · died 20 January 1639, aged 47

Who was alive at the same time as Mustafa I?

  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. Lope de Vega, 1562 – 1635
  8. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  9. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  10. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  11. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  12. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  13. Mustafa I, 1591 – 1639
  14. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  15. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  16. Oliver Cromwell, 1599 – 1658
  17. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  18. John Milton, 1608 – 1674
  19. Jean de La Fontaine, 1621 – 1695
  20. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  21. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662
  22. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  23. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  24. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715

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When Mustafa I was born, William Shakespeare was 27, Galileo Galilei was 27, Elizabeth I was 57, Francis Bacon was 30 and Johannes Kepler was 19.

When Mustafa I died, Galileo Galilei was 74, René Descartes was 42, Molière was 17, John Locke was 6 and Rembrandt was 32.

Born during Mustafa I’s lifetime: René Descartes, Molière, John Locke, Rembrandt, Blaise Pascal, Louis XIV, Baruch Spinoza and Diego Velázquez.

Not quite contemporaries: Isaac Newton was born about 4 years after Mustafa I died, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born about 7 years after Mustafa I died, Matsuo Bashō was born about 5 years after Mustafa I died and Mimar Sinan died about 3 years before Mustafa I was born.

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Where Mustafa I’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

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

  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. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  10. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  11. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  12. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  13. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  14. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  15. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  16. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  17. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  18. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  19. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  20. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  21. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  22. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  23. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  24. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  25. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  26. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  27. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  28. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  29. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  30. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  31. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  32. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  33. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  34. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  35. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  36. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  37. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  38. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  39. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  40. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  41. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  42. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  43. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  44. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  45. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  46. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  47. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  48. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  49. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  50. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  51. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  52. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  53. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  54. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  55. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  56. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  57. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  58. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  59. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  60. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  61. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  62. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  63. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  64. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  65. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  66. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  67. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  68. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  69. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  70. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  71. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  72. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  73. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  74. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  75. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  76. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  77. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  78. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  79. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  80. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  81. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  82. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  83. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  84. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  85. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  86. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  87. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  88. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  89. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  90. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  91. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  92. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  93. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  94. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  95. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  96. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  97. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  98. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  99. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  100. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  101. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  102. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  103. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  104. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  105. Osman II 1604 – 1622
  106. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  107. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  108. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  109. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  110. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  111. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  112. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  113. Murad IV 1612 – 1640
  114. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  115. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  116. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  117. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  118. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  119. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  120. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  121. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  122. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  123. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  124. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  125. Mumtaz Mahal 1593 – 1631
  126. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  127. Cyrano de Bergerac c. 1619 – 1655
  128. Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 – 1687
  129. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  130. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  131. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  132. Marie de' Medici 1575 – 1642
  133. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593
  134. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598
  135. Christian IV of Denmark 1577 – 1648
  136. Jean-Baptiste Colbert 1619 – 1683
  137. Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 – 1625
  138. George Herbert 1593 – 1633
  139. Pocahontas c. 1596 – 1617
  140. Francesco Borromini 1599 – 1667
  141. Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor 1608 – 1657
  142. Matteo Ricci 1552 – 1610
  143. Feodor I of Russia 1557 – 1598
  144. Elizabeth Báthory 1560 – 1614
  145. Luis de Góngora 1561 – 1627
  146. Vincent de Paul 1581 – 1660
  147. Otto von Guericke 1602 – 1686
  148. Johannes Hevelius 1611 – 1687
  149. Evliya Çelebi 1611 – 1682
  150. Charles IX of Sweden 1550 – 1611