Who Was Alive

Oliver Cromwell

English military and political leader

Born 25 April 1599 (Julian calendar) · died 3 September 1658 (Julian calendar), aged 59

Who was alive at the same time as Oliver Cromwell?

  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. René Descartes
  12. Diego Velázquez
  13. Oliver Cromwell
  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 Oliver Cromwell was born, William Shakespeare was 34 or 35, Galileo Galilei was 35, René Descartes was 3, Francis Bacon was 38 and Elizabeth I of England was 65.

When Oliver Cromwell died, Isaac Newton was 15, Molière was 36, John Locke was 26, Rembrandt was 52 and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 12.

Born during Oliver Cromwell’s lifetime: Isaac Newton, Molière, John Locke, Rembrandt, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Matsuo Bashō, Blaise Pascal and Louis XIV of France.

Not quite contemporaries: Peter the Great was born 14 years after Oliver Cromwell died, Jonathan Swift was born 9 years after Oliver Cromwell died, Daniel Defoe was born about a year after Oliver Cromwell died and Michel de Montaigne died 7 years before Oliver Cromwell was born.

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All 57 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. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  25. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  26. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  27. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  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. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  34. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  35. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  36. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  37. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  38. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  39. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  40. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  41. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  42. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  43. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  44. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  45. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  46. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  47. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  48. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  49. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  50. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  51. Louis XIII of France 1601 – 1643
  52. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  53. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  54. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  55. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  56. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  57. William III of England 1650 – 1702