Who Was Alive

Were Pedro Calderón de la Barca and Isaac Newton alive at the same time?

Yes. Pedro Calderón de la Barca and Isaac Newton were alive at the same time for 38 years, from 1642 to 1681.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca was 42 when Isaac Newton was born.

Isaac Newton was 38 when Pedro Calderón de la Barca died, aged 81.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Spanish dramatist

Born 17 January 1600 · died 25 May 1681, aged 81

Isaac Newton

English mathematician and physicist

Born 25 December 1642 (Julian calendar) · died 20 March 1727 (Julian calendar), aged 84

  1. Miguel de Cervantes
  2. Galileo Galilei
  3. William Shakespeare
  4. René Descartes
  5. Pedro Calderón de la Barca
  6. Isaac Newton
  7. Johann Sebastian Bach
  8. Voltaire
  9. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  10. Immanuel Kant
Pedro Calderón de la Barca and Isaac Newton in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.