Who Was Alive

Nicolas Poussin

French painter

Born June 1594 · died 19 November 1665, aged 71

Who was alive at the same time as Nicolas Poussin?

  1. Elizabeth I of England
  2. Akbar
  3. Miguel de Cervantes
  4. Giordano Bruno
  5. Francis Bacon
  6. Galileo Galilei
  7. William Shakespeare
  8. Johannes Kepler
  9. Peter Paul Rubens
  10. Thomas Hobbes
  11. Nicolas Poussin
  12. René Descartes
  13. Diego Velázquez
  14. Rembrandt
  15. John Milton
  16. Jean de La Fontaine
  17. Molière
  18. Blaise Pascal
  19. John Locke
  20. Benedictus de Spinoza
  21. Louis XIV of France
  22. Isaac Newton
  23. Matsuo Bashō
  24. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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When Nicolas Poussin was born, William Shakespeare was 30, Galileo Galilei was 30, Francis Bacon was 33, Elizabeth I of England was 60 and Johannes Kepler was 22.

When Nicolas Poussin died, Isaac Newton was 22, Molière was 43, John Locke was 33, Rembrandt was 59 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 19.

Born during Nicolas Poussin’s lifetime: Isaac Newton, René Descartes, Molière, John Locke, Rembrandt, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Matsuo Bashō and Blaise Pascal.

Not quite contemporaries: Peter the Great was born 7 years after Nicolas Poussin died, Antonio Vivaldi was born 13 years after Nicolas Poussin died, Jonathan Swift was born 2 years after Nicolas Poussin died and Michel de Montaigne died 2 years before Nicolas Poussin was born.

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All 62 contemporaries we track

  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. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  10. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  11. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  12. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  13. Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603
  14. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  15. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
  16. Benedictus de Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  17. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  18. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  19. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  20. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  21. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  22. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  23. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  24. Daniel Defoe 1659–1662 – 1731
  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. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  32. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  33. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  34. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  35. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  36. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  37. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  38. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  39. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  40. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  41. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  42. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  43. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  44. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  45. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  46. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  47. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  48. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  49. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  50. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  51. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  52. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  53. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  54. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  55. Louis XIII of France 1601 – 1643
  56. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  57. Anne of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  58. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  59. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  60. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  61. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  62. William III of England 1650 – 1702