Who Was Alive
Ole Rømer
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Ole Rømer

Danish astronomer

Born 25 September 1644 · died 19 September 1710, aged 65
Also known as Olaus Roemer, Ole Christensen Romer, Ole Christensen Rømer

Who was alive at the same time as Ole Rømer?

  1. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  2. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  3. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  4. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  5. John Milton, 1608 – 1674
  6. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  7. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662
  8. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  9. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  10. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  11. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  12. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  13. Ole Rømer, 1644 – 1710
  14. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  15. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  16. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  17. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  18. George Frideric Handel, 1685 – 1759
  19. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  20. Montesquieu, 1689 – 1755
  21. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  22. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  23. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  24. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778

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When Ole Rømer was born, Isaac Newton was 1, René Descartes was 48, Molière was 22, John Locke was 12 and Rembrandt was 38.

When Ole Rømer died, Isaac Newton was 67, Johann Sebastian Bach was 25, Voltaire was 15, Benjamin Franklin was 4 and Carl Linnaeus was 3.

Born during Ole Rømer’s lifetime: Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin, Carl Linnaeus, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Leonhard Euler, Peter the Great and Antonio Vivaldi.

Not quite contemporaries: Galileo Galilei died about 2 years before Ole Rømer was born, Immanuel Kant was born about 14 years after Ole Rømer died, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born about 2 years after Ole Rømer died and Adam Smith was born about 13 years after Ole Rømer died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

180 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Ole Rømer. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1677.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  3. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  4. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  5. Molière 1622 – 1673
  6. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  7. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  8. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  9. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  10. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  11. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  12. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  13. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  14. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  15. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  16. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  17. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  18. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  19. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  20. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  21. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  22. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  23. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  24. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  25. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  26. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  27. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  28. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  29. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  30. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  31. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  32. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  33. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  34. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  35. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  36. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  37. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  38. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  39. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  40. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  41. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  42. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  43. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  44. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  45. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  46. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  47. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  48. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  49. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  50. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  51. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  52. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  53. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  54. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  55. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  56. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  57. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  58. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  59. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  60. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  61. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  62. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  63. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  64. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  65. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  66. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  67. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  68. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  69. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  70. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  71. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  72. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  73. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  74. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  75. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  76. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  77. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  78. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  79. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  80. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  81. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  82. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  83. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  84. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  85. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  86. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  87. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  88. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  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. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  96. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  97. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  98. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  99. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  100. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  101. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  102. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  103. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  104. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  105. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  106. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  107. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  108. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  109. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  110. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  111. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  112. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  113. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  114. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  115. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  116. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  117. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  118. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  119. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  120. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  121. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  122. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  123. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  124. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  125. Guru Gobind Singh 1666 – 1708
  126. Canaletto 1697 – 1768
  127. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  128. François Fénelon 1651 – 1715
  129. Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683 – 1764
  130. Antoine Watteau 1684 – 1721
  131. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  132. Cyrano de Bergerac c. 1619 – 1655
  133. Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 – 1687
  134. Prince Eugene of Savoy 1663 – 1736
  135. Domenico Scarlatti 1685 – 1757
  136. Mahmud I 1696 – 1754
  137. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor 1708 – 1765
  138. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  139. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  140. Ivan Mazepa 1639 – 1709
  141. Mustafa II 1664 – 1703
  142. Ahmed II 1643 – 1695
  143. Henry Purcell 1659 – 1695
  144. Blackbeard c. 1680 – 1718
  145. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 1696 – 1770
  146. William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham 1708 – 1778
  147. Christian IV of Denmark 1577 – 1648
  148. Jean-Baptiste Colbert 1619 – 1683
  149. William Penn 1644 – 1718
  150. Arcangelo Corelli 1653 – 1713